Rethinking Young Peoples Marginalisation
In the 21st century myriad earth systems atmospheric systems, ocean systems, land systems, neo-Liberal capitalism are in crisis. These crises are deeply related. Taking diverse and multiple forms, they have diverse and multiple consequences and are evidenced in such things as war, everyday violence, hate and extremism, global flows of millions of the dispossessed and homeless; and in the precarious, uncertain, and marginal existence of millions more.
Rethinking Young Peoples Marginalisation is concerned with the experience, affect, and effects of these earth systems crises on:
- young peoples life chances, life choices, and life courses
- young peoples engagement with education, training, and work
- the character of young peoples being and becoming, their gendered embodiment, their participation in cultures of democracy, their resilience, and their marginalisation.
Indeed, in setting out to rethink young peoples marginalisation, this insightful volume makes a contribution to troubling key concepts in Youth Studies, primarily: structure and agency; transitions and pathways; gender and embodiment, citizenship, risk, and resilience. It does this by drawing on a variety of critical, theoretical traditions, including Baumans engagement with the ambivalence of the human condition; Foucaults studies of mentalities of government and genealogies of the subject; the critique of the politics of disposability and violence of neo-Liberalism undertaken by Giroux, and the authors of Kilburn Manifesto; Braidottis vitalist posthumanism; and Haraways figure of the Chthulucene.
Analysing the ways in which young people engage in and develop new cultures of democracy, Rethinking Young Peoples Marginalisation will appeal to postgraduate students and postdoctoral researchers interested in fields such as Youth Studies, Youth Sociology, Education Studies, and Critical Social Theory.
Peter Kelly is a professor in the School of Education, RMIT University, Australia.
Perri Campbell is a research fellow at Swinburne University, Australia.
Luke Howie is a senior lecturer in the School of Social Sciences at Monash University, Australia and Deputy Director of the Global Terrorism Research Centre (GTReC).
Youth, Young Adulthood and Society
Series editors:
Tracy Shildrick
Newcastle University, UK
John Goodwin
University of Leicester, UK
Henrietta OConnor
University of Leicester, UK
The Youth, Young Adulthood and Society series approaches youth as a distinct area, bringing together social scientists from many disciplines to present cutting-edge research monographs and collections on young people in societies around the world today. The books present original, exciting research, with strongly theoretically- and empirically-grounded analysis, advancing the field of youth studies. Originally set up and edited by Andy Furlong, the series presents interdisciplinary and truly international, comparative research monographs.
Published:
Spaces of Youth
Work, Citizenship and Culture in a Global Context
David Farrugia
Transitions to Adulthood through Recession
Youth and Inequality in a European Comparative Perspective
Edited by Sarah Irwin and Ann Nilsen
Youth, Technology, Governance, Experience
Adults Understanding Young Lives
Edited by Liam Grealy, Catherine Driscoll and Anna Hickey-Moody
Youth, Risk, Routine
A New Perspective on Risk-Taking in Young Lives
Tea Torbenfeldt Bengtsson and Signe Ravn
Rethinking Young Peoples Marginalisation
Beyond Neo-Liberal Futures?
Peter Kelly, Perri Campbell and Luke Howie
For a full list of titles in this series, please visit www.routledge.com/Youth-Young-Adulthood-and-Society/book-series/YYAS
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Peter. For Georgia
Perri. For Margaret and Craig
Luke. For Maree and Margaret
The very nature of the job that we set ourselves here re-thinking young peoples marginalisation, re-visiting the work that we have done, collectively and individually, over the last two decades means that we have many and varied people to acknowledge, and that, inevitably, we will not adequately acknowledge all those people individuals, groups, organisations who have influenced our trajectories during this time.
We do, however, want to recognise the contribution of our collaborators at various times over the last 1015 years. Important here are Lyn Harrison and Chris Hickey, who have been colleagues and collaborators for all that time. Lyn and Chris were involved in initial conversations about this book, and were involved in an earlier iteration. Their involvement at that time has been important in the development of this project. Annelies Kamp, Kerry Montero, and Jo Pike have been, variously, co-authors and co-editors on a number of projects that have led to this moment. Their contributions in those projects have also been influential in shaping what we have tried to do here.
We have been told stories of growing up, becoming, and survival by different people, each with particular connections to place, politics, justice, and the future. We would like to thank the young people who have shared their stories with us at different times and in different places. To HNK, Aunt Najma, and Riverbend, your stories continue to have meaning in our lives long after our first encounter in digital spaces. We struggle still to come to terms with the horrendous impact of invasion, war, occupation, for young women growing up in Iraq.
To the young people we spoke to in Australia, New Zealand, and North America who participated in and pushed the agenda of Occupy and the Black Lives Matter movement, we thank you. Your accounts raise questions about the hinterlands we wander in, in our everyday lives, in our academic lives.
