The Theoretical Landscape of Youth Studies

Drawing from Latin-American and Argentinean ethnic studies, in dialogue with African philosophy and African youth studies, this essay addresses collective agency as it emerges at the intersection of age and ethnicity within national formations of otherness. These formations organize how people live and define who must die and how. The aim is to develop a theoretical input to enrich the debate on the concept of intersectionality. The essay focuses on how young Mapuche activism dismantles and/or reproduces identities and experiences available to Mapuche youth in contemporary Argentina. This activism gained prominence recently due to a neoliberal change in national politics that rearranged the relationship between the nation and its internal others in order to legitimize violent repression of social protest. Within this context, young Mapuche activists (mainly male) are portrayed as a public menace.

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The Oxford Handbook of Global South Youth Studies

10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190930028.001.0001 ◽

2020 ◽

Keyword(s):

Online Publication ◽

Review Process ◽

Global South ◽

Publication Date ◽

Youth Studies ◽

Print Publication ◽

Pass Through

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Youth Studies, Housing Transitions and the ‘Missing Middle’: Time for a Rethink?

Sociological Research Online ◽

10.5153/sro.3107 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 18 (3) ◽

pp. 118-129 ◽

Cited By ~ 18

Author(s):

Steven Roberts

Keyword(s):

Young Men ◽

Social Resources ◽

Youth Studies ◽

Transitions To Adulthood ◽

Lack Of Fit ◽

Youth Research ◽

Communal Living ◽

Missing Middle ◽

Determining Factor

A recent but growing trend in studies of young people's lives has been to highlight that there is a ‘missing middle’ in the youth studies research agenda. It has been argued that much youth research focuses on either successful or very troubled transitions to adulthood, with the lives of those who might simply be ‘getting by’ representing an empirical absence. Building on previous work that has addressed how such a missing middle can add to our understanding of educational experience and attainment, labour market engagement and participation, and issues of identity, this paper pays attention to the housing transitions, careers and aspirations of a group of ‘ordinary’ and apparently unproblematic working class young men. Because they do not represent groups that have been of especial interest in youth studies to date, their experiences problematize the on-going utility of dominant conceptual frameworks used to explain housing transitions. In addition to their ‘lack of fit’ with ideal type typologies, the young men also reveal the shifting nature of attitudes towards communal living ‘which is traditionally associated with middle class students’ in combination with the continuing role of social resources as a determining factor in their housing transition.

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“You can’t go back to holding hands.” Reading Judy Blume’s Forever in the #MeToo Era

Study and Scrutiny Research on Young Adult Literature ◽

10.15763/issn.2376-5275.2019.3.2.1-19 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 3 (2) ◽

pp. 1-19

Author(s):

Jenna Spiering ◽

Kate Kedley

Keyword(s):

Queer Theory ◽

Youth Studies ◽

Cultural Artifact ◽

Young Readers ◽

Sex And Sexuality ◽

Critical Youth Studies

Judy Blume’s Forever is a cultural artifact that gives readers a historical look at society’s attitudes about sex and sexuality at the time of publication in 1975. However, in the #MeToo era, Blume’s text is poised for new analysis in light of important conversations and concerns about sex, sexuality, and consent. In this article, Critical Youth Studies and Queer Theory are used to explore the ways in which young readers can critically engage with Blume’s novel and questions about virginity, sex, sexuality, and consent associated with the #MeToo movement.

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Introduction: Youth Studies in Latin America—On Social Actors, Public Policies and New Citizenships

Young ◽

10.1177/110330881202000402 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 20 (4) ◽

pp. 329-344 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

Patricia Oliart ◽

Carles Feixa

Keyword(s):

Latin America ◽

Expert Knowledge ◽

Social Policies ◽

Special Issue ◽

Disadvantaged Youth ◽

Social Commentary ◽

Politics Of Recognition ◽

Youth Studies ◽

Social Actors ◽

New Politics

Youth Studies in Latin America is a field that combines different traditions and approaches developed throughout almost a century. These traditions can be roughly grouped as political and social commentary and analysis, the development of ‘expert’ knowledge to inform the design of social policies or interventions on the situation of vulnerable and disadvantaged youth and critical/cultural studies in search of new social arrangements, where new politics of recognition, dialogue, democracy and citizenship can take place. We present this text as a wider context for the articles that comprise this special issue on youth studies with contributions from Argentina, Chile, Colombia and México.

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