Youth, Place and Theories of Belonging

ISBN-13: 9780367726843 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 200 str.

Sadia Habib; Michael Ward

Opis

Drawing on interdisciplinary perspectives, this book showcases cutting-edge empirical research on young people’s lifeworlds. The scholars demonstrate that belonging is personal, infused with individual and collective histories as well as interwoven with conceptions of place.

Spis treści

1. Introduction: investigating youth and belonging 

2. Expanding theoretical boundaries from youth transitions to belonging and new materiality 

3. Surveillance, belonging and community spaces for young people from refugee backgrounds in Australia 

4. Queering Timmies: theorising LGBTQ youth claiming and making space in Surrey, BC, Canada 

5. ‘Adults decided our fate’: children and young people navigating space, territory and conflicting identities and the ‘new’ Northern Ireland 

6. Travel imaginaries of youth in New York City: history, ethnicity and the politics of mobility 

7. Women, spatial scales and belonging: signalling inequality in Latin America 

8. Brotherhood and belonging: creating pedagogic spaces for positive discourses of Aboriginal youth 

9. Belonging without believing? Making space for marginal masculinities at the Young Men’s Christian Association in the United Kingdom and The Gambia 

10. Precarious class positions in Spam City: youth, place and class in the ‘missing middle’

11. Arenas of empowerment? Case study of a ‘multicultural’ high school in Oslo, Norway 

12. Local and refugee youth in rural Australia: negotiating intercultural relationships and belonging in rural places 

13. Politics of class and belonging in Pakistan: student learning, communities of practice and social mobility 

14. Conclusion: youth and belonging: agency, place and negotiation

O autorze

Sadia Habib is the author of Learning and Teaching British Values: Policies and Perspectives on British Identities (2017). She has nine years of teaching experience in UK schools and colleges. She holds a PhD from Goldsmiths, University of London, UK, where she conducted arts-based educational research with young Londoners to learn about their conceptions of local, national and transnational identities and belongings, as well as to observe the critical pedagogies involved in identity work in the classroom. She is co-founder of The Riz Test and co-editor of The Bookslamist.

Michael R. M. Ward is a Lecturer in Social Sciences at Swansea University. His work centres on the performance of working-class masculinities within and beyond educational institutions. He is the author of the award-winning book From Labouring to Learning: Working-Class Masculinities, Education and De-Industrialization (2015) and co-convener of the British Sociological Association Education Study Group. Dr Ward has held visiting scholarships in Canada, the USA, Iceland and Germany.