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Identities, Youth and Belonging

International Perspectives

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  • © 2019

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Editors:
  1. Sadia Habib

    1. Independent Scholar, Manchester, UK

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  2. Michael R. M. Ward

    1. Swansea University, Swansea, UK

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  • Takes as its focus the ways in which young people understand and engage in their locales, spaces and institutions
  • Offers international and interdisciplinary perspectives
  • Adds to the youth studies canon through the exploration of underrepresented areas

Part of the book series: Studies in Childhood and Youth (SCY)

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Youth Negotiating Belonging in a Global World

    • Sadia Habib, Michael R. M. Ward
    Pages 1-15

  3. Growing Up in ‘The Ends’: Identity, Place and Belonging in an Urban East London Neighbourhood

    • Joy White
    Pages 17-33

  4. Young Indonesian Musicians, Upward Career Mobility and Feeling at Home

    • Oki Rahadianto Sutopo
    Pages 35-49

  5. Religion and (Re)negotiation of Belonging among Zimbabwean Migrant Youths in South Africa

    • Charles Dube
    Pages 51-67

  6. Being Kurdish at a Turkish University Campus: A Spatial Approach to Belonging

    • Baris Isci Pembeci
    Pages 69-85

  7. Transit and Transition: Student Identity and the Contested Landscape of Higher Education

    • Vicki Trowler
    Pages 87-104

  8. Using Bourdieu to Understand the Pathways to Belonging That Are Forged by Young Students of Refugee Experience in an Australian Mainstream School

    • Fiona Picton, Grant Banfield
    Pages 105-121

  9. Virtual Communities as Safe Spaces Created by Young Feminists: Identity, Mobility and Sense of Belonging

    • Raquel Miño-Puigcercós, Pablo Rivera-Vargas, Cristóbal Cobo Romaní
    Pages 123-140

  10. Exploring the Potential for Community Where Diverse Individuals Belong

    • Kate J. Cassidy
    Pages 141-157

  11. (Un)Belonging in Higher Education: Negotiating Working-Class Masculinities Within and Beyond the University Campus

    • Michael R. M. Ward
    Pages 159-176

  12. Portraits of Place: Critical Pedagogy in the Classroom

    • Sadia Habib
    Pages 177-194

  13. Conclusion: Young People Negotiating Belonging in Changing Times

    • Sadia Habib, Michael R. M. Ward
    Pages 195-212

  14. Back Matter

    Pages 213-218
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About this book

This book contains empirical research from established and emerging scholars who draw upon interdisciplinary perspectives of space and place in order to investigate young people’s sense of identities and belongings in diverse international contexts.  The contributors aim to enhance our understanding of how theories of belonging are employed in the study of youth identity as these young people come to belong at a local, national, global, and even virtual level.  The collection draws on research in the rural, the urban, and online, showcasing key sites and communities that play a role in young people’s lives as they negotiate their sense of agency and sense of identity within the contexts of the locale.

Identities, Youth and Belonging will be of interest to students and scholars across a range of disciplines including sociology, education, social policy, politics and geography.

 

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“By focusing on space and place, the editors of this wide-ranging book have managed to find a way to grapple with structural concerns without losing the poststructural conception of identity as something subject to slippage and fluidity. It represents an effective way to consider the experience of groups of young people without framing their experience around stereotypes. This analysis disrupts established binary oppositional discourses around youth as either progressive and politically aware, or as self-centred neoliberal subject, reframing subjectivities as both individual and bounded by elements of a shared lived experience.” (Anna Carlile, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK)

Editors and Affiliations

  • Independent Scholar, Manchester, UK

    Sadia Habib

  • Swansea University, Swansea, UK

    Michael R. M. Ward

About the editors

Sadia Habib holds a Ph.D. in Educational Studies from Goldsmiths, University of London, UK. 

Michael R M Ward is Lecturer in Social Sciences at Swansea University, UK.


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