Andy Brader

Youth Identities: Time, Space and Social Exclusion

Exploring Youth Work, Policy and Practice in Sheffield 1999-2003

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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 practitioner s observations, interviews and participation in local networks, identify young people s 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 Touraine s 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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. September 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 220mm x 150mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 355g
• ISBN-13: 9783838327341
• ISBN-10: 3838327349
• Artikelnr.: 28186881

Autorenporträt

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.