YOUNG PEOPLE IN RISK SOCIETY
Young People in Risk Society
The Restructuring of Youth Identities and Transitions in Late Modernity
Edited by
MARK CIESLIK
University of Teesside, UK
GARY POLLOCK
Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
First published 2002 by Ashgate Publishing
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Contents
Mark Cieslik and Gary Pollock
Geoff Nichols
Tracy Shildrick
Steven Miles
Ben Carrington and Brian Wilson
Tracey Skelton
Barry Percy-Smith and Susan Weil
Sue Heath
Gary Pollock
Ben Carrington teaches Sociology and Cultural Studies at the University of Brighton, England.
Mark Cieslik is a lecturer in Sociology at the University of Teesside. Mark has been researching young people since the early 1990s when he undertook doctoral research into young people, schooling and social exclusion. He is currently researching, amongst other things, the impact of recent education policy, in particular Education Action Zones as well as issues around lifelong learning. He is also convenor of the British Sociological Association Youth Study Group.
Sue Heath is a senior lecturer in Sociology at the University of Southampton. Her research interests focus on processes of transition to adulthood, with a specific interest in single young adults, household formation and forms of interdependent living. Recent publications include Sociological Research Methods in Context (Macmillan, 1999, with Fiona Devine) and articles in Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, the British Journal of Sociology of Education and the Journal of Youth Studies.
Steven Miles is a senior lecturer in Sociology at the University of Plymouth. His doctoral research explored patterns of consumption in young people. Since then he has been researching and publishing widely particularly around the areas of youth studies, social theory and consumption.
Geoff Nichols is a lecturer in the Leisure Management Unit, University of Sheffield. His main research interests are the evaluation of sports and outdoor activity programmes, especially those programmes which aim to reduce crime. Recent research based publications include papers in the journals, Vista, Governance Local, Australian Journal of Outdoor Education, World Leisure and Recreation and Journal of Risk Research.
Barry Percy-Smith is Research Fellow and Youth Research Co-ordinator at SOLAR (Social and Organizational Learning and Action Research), an interdisciplinary action research and development centre at University College Northampton, UK. His work involves collaborative action inquiry projects with young people, policy-makers and practitioners as research partners in organizational, programme and community contexts. He is currently working on projects with and for socially excluded and vulnerable young people around issues of education, training, guidance, homelessness, youth offending and neighbourhood renewal. His doctoral research examined young peoples experiences of growing up in urban neighbourhoods conducted as part of the UNESCO Growing Up In Cities programme.
Gary Pollock is a lecturer in Sociology at Manchester Metropolitan University. Prior to this he worked at the University of Salford. He has undertaken survey research into youth labour markets and unemployment and has published several articles in this area. He is also currently exploring the youth transitions discourse in light of debates around late modernity and risk society.
Tracy Shildrick is a lecturer in Sociology and Youth Studies at the University of Teesside. She is presently completing her Doctoral research which explores youth cultural identification and the use of illicit drugs in the North East of England. She has recently published a number of articles based on this research.
Tracey Skelton is a lecturer in Geography at Loughborough University. She is the co-editor (with Gill Valentine) of Cool Places: Cultural Geographies of Young People (Routledge). She has conducted research with young women living in the Rhondda Valleys, South Wales. Her other key research area is the Caribbean and she is currently collaborating with colleagues at the University of the West Indies in order to conduct research with young people in the region.
Susan Weil is Professor of Social and Organizational Learning and Director of SOLAR, at University College Northampton, United Kingdom. Working predominantly in the health and education sectors her work focuses on the development of new forms of collaborative and action-oriented inquiry. She is currently working with NHS executives on whole systems change and capability development projects. She is formerly Higher Education Research Director at the Office of Public Management.
Brian Wilson is an assistant professor in the socio-managerial area in the School of Human Kinetics at the University of British Columbia, Canada. His research has focused on topics such as the rave subculture, youth culture in recreation/drop-in centres, media portrayals of race and gender, and audience reactions to these portrayals. His current work on alternative media and social movements includes a study of the anti-jock Internet based youth movement.
This book is based on papers presented at seminars organized by the British Sociological Association Youth Study Group (for details see: www.britsoc.org.uk). This was re-established by Mark Cieslik, Andy Bennett and Steve Miles in 1999 as a forum for youth researchers to discuss the latest work in the field of youth studies. Each year the study group organizes one-day seminars as well as larger conferences and further publications based on these study group papers are forthcoming.
The editors wish to acknowledge the support of the BSA and also the many study group members who have contributed to the success of recent events. Most importantly, this book would not have been possible without the many young people who have participated in the various projects which make up this collection of papers.
