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] Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung /Forum: Qualitative Social Research, 15(1), Art 9.
“Hope is that fiery feeling”: Using poetry as data to explore the meanings of hope for young people.
2014 •
Karen Willis
Contemporary Social Science Journal of the Academy of Social Sciences Disadvantaged students and art school: the outcasts on the inside between acquiescence and contestation
Anna Uboldi
Disadvantaged students and art school: the outcasts on the inside between acquiescence and contestation
Anna Uboldi
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Children's Geographies
Emotional geographies of young people's aspirations for adult life
2011 •
Gavin Brown
For the last decade, the aspirations of working class young people have been a significant policy concern in the UK, with a range of interventions being implemented to work on and ‘raise’ them (particularly through initiatives to widen participation in higher education). This paper considers the emotional geographies of young people’s aspirations. Interventions to ‘raise’ young people’s aspirations act on an emotional/affective level (creating ‘wow’ moments that affect their perceptions of what is possible) but seldom engage holistically with the full range of emotions that young people experience in relation to their imagined adult lives. The prioritisation of progression to higher education (and, by extension, professional careers) as the most acceptable ‘aspirations’ to have overlooks the wide range of other ambitions young people have for their adult lives (and how these often rest upon the desire for emotional security and happiness). This disconnection between working class young people’s aspirations and those promoted by policy interventions undermines efforts to inspire more working class teenagers to progress to HE and creates greater emotional risk for those that do so.
Young people’s orientations to the future: navigating the present and imagining the future
Dawn Lyon, Giulia Carabelli
This article discusses the findings of the Imagine Sheppey project (2013-14) which studied how young people are ‘oriented’ towards the future. The aim and approach of the project was to explore future imaginaries in a participatory, experimental, and performative way. Working with young people in a series of arts-based workshops, we intervened in different environments to alter the space as an experience of change – temporal, material, symbolic. We documented this process visually and made use of the images produced as the basis for elicitation in focus groups with a wider group of young people. In this article we discuss young people’s future orientations through the themes of reach, resources, shape, and value. In so doing, we reflect on the paths that our young respondents traced to connect their presents to what is next, what we call their modes of present-future navigation. We explore the qualities and characteristics of their stances within a wider reflection about how young people approach, imagine and account for the future.
Dreaming the Impossible Dream: Low-Income Families and Their Hopes for the Future
Laura Peck
This article considers how some individuals and families who are low income think and dream about their futures and compares their thoughts with classic notions of the American Dream. Drawing on intensive interviews with individuals and families, the authors analyzed interviewees’ observations about their hopes and thoughts for the future. Five main themes emerge: stability, agency, and control; ideal home life; values about the home; aspirations for children; and obstacles to achieving dreams. In brief, the authors find that the low-income participants in our research have dreams that individuals and families who are more affluent might take for granted and that they appear to adopt neoliberal assumptions about achieving those dreams. These are dreams of getting by and have important implications for the expanding category of individuals and families who find themselves in similar economic situations.
Journal of Sociology
Expecting the unexpected: Young people’s expectations about marriage and family
2012 •
Rebecca Coates
E. Colombo e P. Rebughini, Youth and the Politics of the Present. Coping with complexity and ambivalence, Abingdon-on-Thames, Routledge.
Precarious and creative: youth facing uncertainty in the labour market, con S. Bertolini, M. Unt
2019 •
Valentina Moiso
Youth and the Politics of the Present presents a range of topical sociological investigations into various aspects of the everyday practices of young adults in different European contexts. Indeed, this volume provides an original and provocative investigation of various current central issues surrounding the effects of globalization and the directions in which Western societies are steering their future. Containing a wide range of empirical and comparative examples from across Europe, this title highlights how young adults are trying to implement new forms of understanding, interpretation and action to cope with unprecedented situations; developing new forms of relationships, identifications and belonging while they experience new and unprecedented forms of inclusion and exclusion. Grounding this exploration is the suggestion that careful observations of the everyday practices of young adults can be an excellent vantage point to grasp how and in what direction the future of contemporary Western societies is heading. Offering an original and provocative investigation, Youth and the Politics of the Present will appeal to students and researchers interested in fields such as Youth Studies, Globalization Studies, Migration Studies, Gender Studies and Social Policy.
Routledge
"Fragile Transitions from Education to Employment: Youth, Gender and Migrant Status in the EU". in Youth and the Politics of the Present Coping with Complexity and Ambivalence
2019 •
Çetin Çelik, İbrahim Öker
Youth and the Politics of the Present presents a range of topical sociological investigations into various aspects of the everyday practices of young adults in different European contexts. Indeed, this volume provides an original and provocative investigation of various current central issues surrounding the effects of globalization and the directions in which Western societies are steering their future. Containing a wide range of empirical and comparative examples from across Europe, this title highlights how young adults are trying to implement new forms of understanding, interpretation and action to cope with unprecedented situations; developing new forms of relationships, identifications and belonging while they experience new and unprecedented forms of inclusion and exclusion. Grounding this exploration is the suggestion that careful observations of the everyday practices of young adults can be an excellent vantage point to grasp how and in what direction the future of contemporary Western societies is heading. Offering an original and provocative investigation, Youth and the Politics of the Present will appeal to students and researchers interested in fields such as Youth Studies, Globalization Studies, Migration Studies, Gender Studies and Social Policy. Enzo Colombo is a Professor of Sociology and Culture at the
On the Horizon
Understanding and Teaching Future Consciousness
2009 •
Tom Lombardo
What is future consciousness? Why is it critically important to improve this capacity in humans? And how can we, as teachers and educators, enhance this ability in our students? These are the three central questions I address in this paper. I argue that future consciousness is a multi-faceted capacity and is the most critical ability needed for the survival and growth of humanity and the flourishing of the individual. My central hypothesis is that the development of key character virtues, including personal responsibility and wisdom, should form the guiding framework for the enhancement and teaching of future consciousness.
