Creating Poverty Chances
Young People Confront Gambling Harms in Malawi
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2392357 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Otiyela Mtema (0009-0000-2063-3794, Zaluso Arts, Malawi), Isaac ‘starlic’ Singano (Independent Artist, Malawi), Darragh Mcgee (0000-0002-2772-6886, University of Bath), Yamiko Yakobe (Zaluso Arts, Malawi), Junious Sichali (Malawi Epidemiology and Intervention Research Unit (MEIRU), Malawi), Mphatso Makamo (Zaluso Arts, Malawi), Gerda Reith (0000-0002-6539-0295, University of Glasgow), Christopher Bunn (0000-0001-6604-1305, University of Glasgow, UK; Malawi Epidemiology and Intervention Research Unit (MEIRU), Malawi, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 29 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 1089-1096 |
| Publication date | 2024-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Sociological Research Online (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1360-7804 • E-ISSN: 1360-7804 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/13607804231207152 |
| OpenAlex | W4389764048 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 9 |
Commercialised gambling products have spread rapidly through African countries in recent years and have been woven into the everyday experiences of young people. Research to date has documented this phenomenon through conventional social science methodologies, establishing an important body of knowledge. Absent from this work is research that adopts participatory and creative methods, often argued to be particularly well suited to empowering marginalised groups to co-produce research. In this piece, we describe a co-creative participatory approach to working with 24 young people in Malawi to explore experiences of commercial gambling and its impacts on their communities. Our approach was co-developed with the young people and produced a substantial body of community interviews, photovoice pieces, and creative representations of the research findings. Here, we focus on a song written and recorded by one of the young people that draws on and represents themes of distress, addiction, poverty, and false hope, which were present in the data the young people generated across the study
Citizen journalism · Economic growth · Ethnography · Focus group · Participatory action research · Phenomenon · Photovoice · Political science · Poverty · Qualitative research · Social science · Sociology · Gambling Behavior and Treatments · Gender Studies · Mental Health and Patient Involvement · Participatory Visual Research Methods
| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 2 |
| Citation span | 2026 - 2026 (1) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |