Cultivating hope through creative resistance: Puerto Rican undergraduates surviving the disasters of climate and colonization

Abstract

This article details what occurred during a youth participatory action research (YPAR) project involving Puerto Rican undergraduates who at first focused their analysis on how their experiences with Hurricane Maria could be framed as resiliency and then eventually adopted a framework of resistance to further capture their actions, stances, and practices in response to government neglect. The YPAR generative process facilitated this emergence of resistance by beginning with the presentation of a cultural artifact and then helping students to use creative and artistic means to critically reflect on their experiences and the ways that not just resiliency, but also resistance captured their analysis of the actions of the people and government actors both immediately after the hurricane and in the long recovery that followed.

Publisher

Routledge

Publication Date

9-14-2022

Publication Title

International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education

Department

Comparative American Studies

Document Type

Article

DOI

https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09518398.2022.2061069

Keywords

Latinx students, Participatory action research, Resistance, Puerto Rico, YPAR

Language

English

Format

text

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