Notice bibliographique
Boivin, J., Canapé, M. H., Lamarre-Tellier, S., Ibarra-Lemay, A. et Blanchet-Cohen, N. (2023). “Community envelops us in this grey landscape of obstacles and allows space for healing”: The perspectives of Indigenous youth on well-being [Special Issue]. Genealogy, 7(1), 9.
Résumé
This paper presents Indigenous youths’ perspectives on well-being. Using Indigenous youth participatory action research with the Indigenous youth advisory committee of the Québec Youth Research Network Chair (Canada), community care emerged as the central feature of well-being and was then visually presented in the form of a postcard. We discuss the meaning given to community care, the factors that support it, and the role that a visual illustration can play in promoting change. The article is informed by the co-creation of the postcard, an online luncheon conversation, and several debriefing/reflexive sessions with the Indigenous youth co-authors. Emphasis is placed on cultural continuity, relational agency, and solidarity, offering an alternative point of view to the prevalent and damaging decontextualized, deficit-based, and individualized approaches to well-being.