Rethinking Youth

Wyn, Johanna; White, Rob

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“…The focus on young people was the most noticeable change during the 2017 electoral campaign. The literature on childhood and young people emphasises the constructed nature of the concept, and its relationality to a concept of adulthood (Ariès 1962;Wyn and White 2013). It is widely noted that most of the political and media discourse on young people is authored by adults, and is a reflection of their hopes and fears for the future (Giroux 1996;Holland 2004;Drotner 2013).…”

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“…It is widely noted that most of the political and media discourse on young people is authored by adults, and is a reflection of their hopes and fears for the future (Giroux 1996;Holland 2004;Drotner 2013). Ideas about what childhood means have changed over time (Ariès 1962;Cunningham 2006;Brickell 2017) and vary across cultures (Wyn and White 2013).…”

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What kind of country we want for our children: an analysis of media coverage of the 2017 New Zealand General Election

Mills

Berti

Rupar

2018

Kōtuitui: New Zealand Journal of Social Sciences Online

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This article is the third in a series investigating media reporting of New Zealand elections. Based on content analysis of 510 articles published in the New Zealand Herald, and thematic analysis of a subset of news stories related to young people, the study examines media coverage of the 2017 elections by looking at the topics of news stories, presence of party policies, diversity of sources and references to social groups. Comparing the 2017 results with the results of the Herald's coverage of 2014 elections, we register a shift towards a stronger presence of policy issues, more female voices in the reports and significantly higher reference to young people. We further investigated the high number of references to young people by conducting qualitative analysis on the subset of articles mentioning young people.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

What kind of country we want for our children: an analysis of media coverage of the 2017 New Zealand General Election

Mills

Berti

Rupar

2018

Kōtuitui: New Zealand Journal of Social Sciences Online

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“…Using the case of Africa’s youth bulge, Sommers contends that the typical youth on the continent are more concerned with improving their socioeconomic situation, which has to a large extent, limited their social inclusion into adulthood, than joining violent movements. As argued earlier, the social expectations of youth to be economically independent at some point in their development, marry, have a decent accommodation, and support ageing parents, among others, places considerable pressure on those who lack the material means to do so, to strive to achieve such ends (Eguavoen, 2010; Wyn & White, 1997). The imagery of young people within large youth cohorts being preoccupied with violence is, therefore, a marked departure from the reality, as evidenced by the strikingly low levels of political and civil conflicts in many states with youth bulge, and even where conflicts have been in recent years, have not seen the participation of most youth in those countries (Sukarieh & Tannock, 2014, p. 107).…”

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Youth Cohort Size, Structural Socioeconomic Conditions, and Youth Protest Behavior in Democratic Societies (1995–2014)

Nkansah

2022

SAGE Open

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Conventional literature associates large youth cohort size (YCS) with increased risk of political violence in countries with such demographic profiles. Key questions which remain unanswered, however, are whether YCS is also associated with young people’s proclivities toward more peaceful forms of protests, and whether structural socioeconomic conditions influence such a relationship? Using multilevel binary logistic regression techniques on pooled individual level data for 51 democratic countries purposively sampled from World Values Survey Waves 3 to 6, and country level data from World Bank, and UN Population Division, I show that YCS demonstrates a positive relationship with young people’s participation in peaceful demonstrations. This relationship is, however, moderated by structural factors such as education and unemployment, which end up reducing young people’s likelihood of participation. I argue that resource limitation, as predicted by the Civic Voluntarism Model, better explains the relationship between YCS and individual youth protest behavior in democratic societies, more than socioeconomic grievance, as suggested by grievance theory. An important implication of this finding is that participation in elite-challenging behaviors such as peaceful protests, can be expected to be more common among young people in affluent democratic societies, than their peers elsewhere in the democratic world.

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“…Understandings of the meanings, significance, and navigation of childhood, youth, and adulthood differ across culture and geography, across time, and across social and economic conditions, and have not always been organized within the logic of development (Epstein, 2007;Finn, 2009;O'Loughlin & Van Zile, 2014;Wyn & White, 1997). Our understanding of childhood, now conceptualized as a time of idealized imaginative innocence in which children must negotiate fundamentals of attachment and agency, has changed drastically in the West over the past several centuries (Epstein, 2007).…”

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Toward Queer Potentialities in Child and Youth Care

Zaman

Anderson-Nathe

2021

IJCYFS

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Arguably, from the invention of adolescence at the beginning of the 20th century, developmental theory has served as the foundation of disciplinary study and professional practice with children and youth across the global West. Despite their founders’ assertions that development is culturally constructed, in educational and youth work practice contexts stage-based trajectories of normative human growth are largely erroneously accepted as ahistorical, apolitical, naturally occurring, and universally applicable. This paper presents critiques of developmentalism from historical, reconceptualist, and queer perspectives, calling into question the underlying principles of normalcy and abnormality that run through the developmental project. We pay particular attention to the potential of queer theory as an analytic to deconstruct developmentalism in the context of child and youth care, opening new possibilities for critical engagement with children and youth outside the context of development.

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Rethinking Youth

Cited by 401 publications

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What kind of country we want for our children: an analysis of media coverage of the 2017 New Zealand General Election

What kind of country we want for our children: an analysis of media coverage of the 2017 New Zealand General Election

Youth Cohort Size, Structural Socioeconomic Conditions, and Youth Protest Behavior in Democratic Societies (1995–2014)

Toward Queer Potentialities in Child and Youth Care

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