Youth Identities: Time, Space and Social Exclusion

ISBN-13: 9783838327341 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 256 str.

Brader, Andy

Opis

The type and quality of youth identities ascribed to young people living in residual housing areas present opportunities for action as well as structural constraints. In this book three ethnographies, based on a youth work practitioners observations, interviews and participation in local networks, identify young peoples resistant identities. Through an analysis of social exclusion, youth policies and interviews with young people, youth workers and their managers, the book outlines a contingent network of relationships that hinder informal learning. Globalisation, individualisation, welfare/education reform and the rise of cultural social movements act upon youth identities and steer youth policies to subordinate the notion of informal group learning. Drawing on Castells and Touraines sociological models of identity, the book explores youth as a category of time and residual housing areas as a category of space, as they pertain to local dynamics of social exclusion.

O autorze

Andy trained as a sociologist, music producer and an education practitioner in the UK. He now resides in Australia and innovates in the fields of online music technology and interactive education. Andy has published internationally on a range of youth, assessment, music and technology related topics.