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- Adolfsson, Maja, et al.
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Understanding how place is addressed in research on young people’s political action : cases from Sweden
- 2024
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Ingår i: Journal of Youth Studies. - : Routledge. - 1367-6261 .- 1469-9680. ; 27:3, s. 455-469
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Following recent critiques of the metrocentric nature of global youth studies, this paper explores the role of place in current research on youth political action in Sweden. Drawing on Agnew’s [2011. “Chapter 23: Space and Place.” In Handbook of Geographical Knowledge, edited by J. Agnew, and D. Livingstone. London: Sage] concept of place and using qualitative interpretive review as our method, we examined three sets of research publications on three different aspects of youth political action in Sweden. Our analysis found that place was addressed differently in each set of publications: youth political socialization and civic engagement were approached as placeless, street protests were examined as place assumed and urban justice movements were studied as place-based. The first two sets of publications contribute to reproducing a metrocentric understanding of youth political action, where urban areas are constructed as the key settings for political action among young people, while rural or peripheral areas are assumed to work in the same way or are depicted as non-political. By contrast, the publications on urban justice movements offered an alternative by exploring political action as place-based. The need to study the place-specific ways that young people do politics is discussed, with its potential to further the understanding of how young people do politics from where they are.
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- Areschoug, Susanna, 1988-
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Subculture, masculinity and place in young rural men’s resistance to counter-migration
- 2024
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Ingår i: Journal of Youth Studies. - 1367-6261 .- 1469-9680.
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In the wake of deindustrialization, many rural areas in the Global North face challenges such as an ageing population, declining welfare systems and limited job and educational opportunities, problems that have been enhanced by decades of depopulation. Young people have left the countryside for careers in larger cities, contributing to stigmatization of those who stay in rural areas. In Sweden, however, statistics show a slow but steady trend of remigration to rural areas, which is described in municipal and state discourse as positive and necessary to ‘save’ the countryside. This paper examines the perspective of rural youth who feel differently about such counter-urbanization. Based on a yearlong ethnographic fieldwork with youth, the article shows how young men involved in Swedish greaser culture perceived the influx of urban (re)migrators as a threat to their rural lifestyle and the rural place where they wished to stay. This is interpreted as an expression of subcultural, place-based and temporal resistance towards urban and neoliberal ideals that simultaneously reinforce white, masculine values. As these young men will be part of a rural future, they must be considered in the formulation of sustainable politics for rural areas.
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- Becevic, Zulmir, et al.
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On the margins of citizenship: youth participation and youth exclusion in times of neoliberal urbanism
- 2022
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Ingår i: Journal of Youth Studies. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1367-6261 .- 1469-9680. ; 25:3, s. 362-379
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Over the last few decades there has been growing interest in youth participation, at policy level and in research. Generally, this is attributed to growing public concern regarding the 'youth participatory deficit' and youth dissatisfaction in European societies. In contemporary discourse young people are positioned as a problem associated with a lack of participation in economic, social and political processes, which in turn is seen as a threat to the very foundation of democracy. Taking into consideration the neoliberal transformation of Western European cities towards increasing socioeconomic and ethno-cultural segregation, the authors argue that there is a pressing need to analyse youth participation as it is shaped by structural order and unequal access to resources, which creates spatial, material and symbolic divisions between different categories of young people. By placing it within a framework of citizenship theory, the authors analyse the enigmatic concept of 'youth participation' through the prism of social exclusion, arguing for an understanding of participation as embedded in the social landscape of unequal power relations and life opportunities which are essential characteristics of the neo-liberal city.
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- Berg Jansson, Anna, et al.
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Professional Position Positioned: The Interwoven Experience of Being a Young Adult and New at Work Analysed from a Relational Perspective of Age
- 2024
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Ingår i: Young - Nordic Journal of Youth Research. - : Sage Publications. - 1103-3088 .- 1741-3222. ; 32:2, s. 142-159
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- To gain an in-depth understanding of the position of being a young adult and new at work simultaneously, this study examines the doing of age in relation to others in the lives of young adults, rather than focusing on age as a category and/or developmental phase. The study focuses on being a young adult from a critical and relational perspective of age. Based on focus group interviews with young adults, mostly women, working in retail, the aim is to analyse the position of being a young adult while new at work through age-marked relationships. The results reveal how this position can be understood both in terms of security and insecurity. Security arises in the sense of opportunities for learning and leaving responsibilities to older and more experienced colleagues. Insecurity arises in the sense of being exposed to insecure employment, the risk of being allocated less challenging tasks and being judged for failures.
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- Berggren, Jan, 1965-, et al.
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Education is my passport : experiences of institutional obstacles among immigrant youth in the Swedish upper secondary educational system
- 2021
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Ingår i: Journal of Youth Studies. - : Taylor & Francis Group. - 1367-6261 .- 1469-9680. ; :3, s. 340-354
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In recent years, educational systems in Europe have experienced a rise in the number of immigrant youth. The experiences of immigrant youth facingthe challenges of an unfamiliar educational system is of continuous relevance in youth studies. This article aims to explore the schooling experiencesof 19 immigrant youth in Sweden, focusing on the institutional obstacles they encounter as students in the national educational system. It draws onsemi-structured interviews with immigrant youth attending upper secondary school or preparing for it by taking transitional classes. Findings are thatfamiliarity with the majority culture, how the educational system works and how to use the majority language for learning purposes in Swedenconstitute crucial knowledge for progress in upper secondary education. However, immigrant students state they have not been adequatelyprepared for these demands in their transitional classes. The authors suggest acknowledging students’ cultural backgrounds and argue for allowingEnglish parallel to Swedish as a transnational language of communication during a transition period, thereby improving students’ chances of havingtheir embodied cultural capital validated in the upper secondary school system.
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- Forsberg, Camilla, et al.
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'Because I am me' : School bullying and the presentation of self in everyday school life
- 2022
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Ingår i: Journal of Youth Studies. - : Routledge. - 1367-6261 .- 1469-9680. ; 25:2, s. 136-150
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In this study, we draw on Erving Goffman’s work on the presentation of self to explore responses by 12–15-year-old (i.e. 6th–9th grade) school students to an open-ended survey question about why they think they were bullied. In doing so, we contribute to a relatively unexplored aspect of school bullying research by focussing on how those students who are subjected to bullying understand their own bullying experiences. We focus in particular on explanations that focus on themselves as individuals. Utilising thematic analysis, we identified six themes: (1) Body, (2) Manner, (3) Social structures, (4) Opinions and interests, (5) Ability, and (6) Relations. Our analysis of the students’ responses suggests that they were bullied because they were perceived as different in some sense, and that such understandings of difference are connected to broader social and societal norms. These findings have important implications for understandings of bullying as aggressive acts and suggest that rather than simply focussing on the negative behaviour of individuals, anti-bullying initiatives also need to focus on the social structures that underpin the understandings of difference that facilitate such behaviour.
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- Gotfredsen, Anne, et al.
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Precarious leisure in a teenage wasteland? : Intertwining discourses on responsibility and girls' place-making in rural Northern Sweden
- 2022
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Ingår i: Journal of Youth Studies. - : Taylor & Francis. - 1367-6261 .- 1469-9680. ; 25:10, s. 1350-1366
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The relationship with place has been recognized as a significant dimension of rural youth leisure, both through the discursive constructions of place, but also as affective and embodied dimensions. This study captures these processes by applying the concept of place-making as a set of recurrent discursive processes, analyzing how girls in Northern Sweden engage in place-making alongside, beyond, and in contrast to dominant discourses on leisure, rurality and wellbeing. The study draws on data from photo-elicited focus groups with girls from two sports organizations. The discursive psychology analysis resulted in three interpretative repertoires. The first repertoire describes the sharp contrast between discourses of the 'rural dull' and how stressful the participants constructed their own places of leisure. The second illustrates the gendered discourses around what is considered to be productive and respectable leisure. The third shows how the participants are made responsible for the survival of their leisure. Through place-making, the participants shape places of leisure, affecting both themselves and their rural community. They engage in, conform to, and challenge place-making within discourses of responsibility and precariousness, creating space for their own initiatives, which are simultaneously shaped by the material conditions under which these practices take place.
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- Hannerz, Erik, et al.
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Negative chain referral sampling : doing justice to subcultural diversity
- 2022
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Ingår i: Journal of Youth Studies. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1469-9680 .- 1367-6261. ; 25:9, s. 1268-1283
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper calls for renewed consideration of the way researchsubjects are selected in the study of subcultures. All too often,subcultural researchers limit themselves to the use of one or twoof the orthodox sampling designs, such as ‘conveniencesampling’ (selecting subjects who are readily available) or ‘chainreferral sampling’ (selecting a readily available subject who refersthe researcher to other subjects). While these designs certainlyhave their merits, especially in the early research phase ofnegotiating access and acceptance, they may impede insight intothe diversity that exists within subcultural groups. Based onethnographic fieldwork among punks and graffiti writers, thispaper introduces a supplementary design, that of ‘negative chainreferral sampling’, which consists of using group members’categorisations of subcultural anomalies as an opening to exploresubcultural variation and tensions. This design is one that flipsthe logic of conventional chain referral sampling: if we areencouraged not to speak to certain subjects, for instance, due totheir lack of authenticity or status, this forms the motivation fordoing exactly that. Closer examination of subcultural anomaliesmay deepen our understanding of the boundary work, identitymakingand social exclusion that occurs in all subcultural groups.
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- Herz, Marcus, et al.
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‘Unaccompanied minors’ in Sweden reflecting onreligious faith and practice
- 2021
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Ingår i: Journal of Youth Studies. - : Routledge. - 1367-6261 .- 1469-9680. ; 24:8, s. 1085-1099
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In this article, we listen to young people having arrived in Sweden asunaccompanied minors, in relation to how they talk about andrelate to religion, belief and practice. There is still a lack ofresearch focusing on these young people’s own narratives andexperiences in their everyday life. This is particularly noteworthysince this category of young people, and especially those with a‘Muslim heritage’, have received increased attention both inresearch and in public discourse. For two years, we haveethnographically followed 20 young people with asylum status inSweden, who all arrived as unaccompanied minors and all camefrom areas of the world where Islam is the dominant religion. Theconclusions are that these young people both need to navigateand are affected by the current political and social contextquestioning Muslim people, and that this is the case regardless of their own personal relationship to Islam. Further, religious faithneeds to be related to its social and emotional embodiments,since it is here religious belief, shifts, changes and resistance, takeplace. Finally, we discuss how physical, temporal and socialdistance makes it possible to create other identities, and otherways of being religious or not.
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- Korkmaz, Sibel, et al.
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Responses to youth intimate partner violence : the meaning of youth-specific factors and interconnections with resilience
- 2020
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Ingår i: Journal of Youth Studies. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1367-6261 .- 1469-9680. ; 23:3, s. 371-387
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Taking its starting point in a mixed methods study on Dating Violence/Youth Intimate Partner Violence (youth IPV), this article emphasizes the social sphere of youth IPV and contributes to a focus shift from consequences and risks to responses, resilience, and resistance. It asks how IPV-exposed youth describe their responses and those of their social networks to violence, and how these responses might be interconnected with resilience. By exploring the concepts of ‘resistance’ and ‘paradoxical resilience’, youth responses in the context of an abusive relationship are highlighted. The empirical data comes from 18 in-depth, ‘teller focused’ interviews with victimized youth (aged 17–23) in Sweden. A theoretical thematic analysis of the interviews surfaced responses from three different types of actors, all described from the youth perspective. Responses are discussed from the point of view that they can promote resilience, but also enable abuse to continue. Overall, the data show youth-specific factors that have meaningful bearing on responses as well as resilience. The article also proposes that responses should be an omnipresent concern for practitioners working with these young people and for the adults involved in their lives.
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