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Four years after the new highway US-220 opened, we find the Braxton family has adjusted nicely to selling their peaches at the farmers market on highway NC-211, in Candor, North Carolina. This summer twelve year old Peg is looking forward to being in charge of their market stall so that her older brother, Aleck, can help his dad in the orchard and with deliveries. When a family health crisis occurs, Peg has to deal with more than just the usual issues of growing up. She has to learn about friends, boys, identity, prejudice, faith issues and developing into a young lady. Now she also has to...

Can our research create conditions for people to flourish? What kinds of questions do we ask about the social world and how knowledge is produced? Does our approach to research itself matter? This edited collection explores and illustrates the nature of research for social justice. Drawing on a diverse range of social research projects, it examines research with and for young people, marginalised communities and those who work to further social justice and human rights goals. Providing key examples of the tools, processes and outcomes of research relevant to social justice, including where...