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Record Nr.

UNINA9910495212303321

Autore

Harris Anita

Titolo

Thinking about Belonging in Youth Studies / / by Anita Harris, Hernan Cuervo, Johanna Wyn

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2021

ISBN

3-030-75119-8

Edizione

[1st ed. 2021.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xiii, 236 pages)

Collana

Studies in Childhood and Youth, , 2731-6475

Disciplina

305.23

Soggetti

Sociology

Social groups

Youth - Social life and customs

Education

Family policy

Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging

Youth Culture

Children, Youth and Family Policy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. The Question of Belonging in Youth Studies -- 2. Historical Underpinnings -- 3. Conceptual Threads -- 4. Policy Frames -- 5. Transitions and Participation -- 6. Citizenship -- 7. Mobilities -- 8. Researching Belonging in Youth Studies.

Sommario/riassunto

This book takes a global perspective to address the concept of belonging in youth studies, interrogating its emergence as a reoccurring theme in the literature and elucidating its benefits and shortcomings. While belonging offers new alignments across previously divergent approaches to youth studies, its pervasiveness in the field has led to criticism that it means both everything and nothing and thus requires deeper analysis to be of enduring value. The authors do this work to provide an accessible, scholarly account of how youth studies uses belonging by focusing on transitions, participation, citizenship and mobility to address its theoretical and historical underpinnings and its prevalence in youth policy and research. “A fascinating, rigorous and



wide-ranging exploration of the concept of ‘belonging’ with respect to young people’s lives. It brings together scholarship from across the globe to consider how ideas about belonging impact on our understandings of transitions, participation, citizenship and mobilities. An important and authoritative new text for youth researchers, written by three key scholars in the field.” —Rachel Brooks, Professor, University of Surrey, UK “An incisive interrogation of ‘belonging’ as an idea and as a framing device. It shows that, as productive as ‘belonging’ has been across youth studies, it is poorly theorised. It offers a genealogy of uses of belonging and a systematic unpacking of its limitations and possibilities. It illustrates insightfully that in a mobile, global world we need a relational and dynamic understanding of the many faces of belonging.” —Greg Noble, Professor, Western Sydney University, Australia.