Making the invisible visible: documenting slow violence through photovoice with youth in Nevada

ABSTRACT

Conditions for slow violence, a type of environmental injustice that is hidden and occurs over time, are rife in Nevada. Research can be used to make these hidden problems visible in order to solve them, which this study aims to do through photovoice with youth in Nevada. The youth found that slow violence was common in their neighborhoods, slow violence impacted vulnerable people in their neighborhoods more than others, and accumulated due to inequitable services/infrastructure. Their solutions focused on how the community could band together, along the lines of People as Infrastructure theory.

KEYWORDS:

• Environmental justice
• slow violence
• youth participatory action research

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).

Notes

1. The Youth Scientists are citizen scientists, a term they did not like because they are not all citizens.

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Funding

This material is based upon work funded by the Office of Research and Evaluation at the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS) under Grant No. 18REHNV001 through the Community Conversations research cooperative agreement competition. Opinions or points of view expressed in this document are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the official position of, or a position that is endorsed by, CNCS.