TY - JOUR AU - Pihkala, Suvi AU - Huuki, Tuija PY - 2019/12/30 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - How A Hashtag Matters – Crafting Response(-Abilities) through Research-Activism on Sexual Harassment in Pre-Teen Peer Cultures JF - Reconceptualizing Educational Research Methodology JA - RERM VL - 10 IS - 2-3 SE - Articles DO - 10.7577/rerm.3678 UR - https://journals.oslomet.no/index.php/rerm/article/view/3678 SP - 242-258 AB - <p>This paper examines what research with children can do and become when it intra-acts with a MeToo hashtag, creative methods, experiences of sexual harassment and the making and travelling of Valentine’s Day cards. The paper is grounded within a creative research-activist project, <em>#MeToo Postscriptum,</em> which aimed to address sexual harassment in pre-teen peer cultures. Analyzing the project, the paper explores how the idea of response-ability manifested in three space-times of the project, and how the material-discursive practices of the project reiteratively reconfigured the conditions of possibilities to respond, react, and act against abusive gendered and sexual child peer cultures. Mapping response-ability through our research endeavours helps theorize the contingent, complex, and entangled ways research-activist methodologies can activate change, enables us to envision response-able practices to counter sexual harassment in young peer cultures, and sensitizes us as scholars and educators to our responsibilities and accountabilities that become recrafted in response.</p> ER -