Moving stories: using mobile methods to explore the everyday lives of young people in public care

2009 ◽  
Vol 9 (5) ◽  
pp. 605-623 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicola J. Ross ◽  
Emma Renold ◽  
Sally Holland ◽  
Alexandra Hillman
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Public Care ◽  
Everyday Lives ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Mobile Methods

scholarly journals Precarity, rights and resistance in the everyday lives of children and young people

2019 ◽  
Vol 56 (3) ◽  
pp. 405-421
Author(s):  
Madeleine Leonard
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Growing Up ◽  
Conceptual Tool ◽  
Children And Young People ◽  
Children’S Perspectives ◽  
Everyday Lives ◽  
Post Conflict ◽  
General Terms ◽  
The Everyday

This article addresses the relevance of the concepts of precarity, rights and resistance in general terms in relation to children and young people in ‘developed’ societies. It then specifically explores how this triple lens enables children’s perspectives and experiences of growing up in ‘post-conflict’ Belfast to be understood. The concept of ‘generagency’ is introduced as providing a useful conceptual tool for exploring the multiple and contradictory landscapes of childhood and how precarity, rights and resistance are experienced generationally.

Epilogue

2019 ◽  
pp. 233-246
Author(s):  
Sarah Hillewaert
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Rapid Change ◽  
The West ◽  
Western Modernity ◽  
Central Focus ◽  
Everyday Lives ◽  
Everyday Practices ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Political Project

The conclusion returns to debates about globalization, global Islam, and global terror, but links these overall concerns to the everyday lives of young Muslims in Lamu. This book challenges portrayals that concentrate on young Muslims’ supposed conflicting engagements with Western modernity. The conclusion therefore does not reflect upon “Islam and the West” and its transpiration in young people’s lives, but rather considers the moral urgency that underlies discussions of self-fashioning and embodiment in contexts of rapid change. The detailed discussion of language and self-fashioning that formed the focus of the book sought to provoke broader discussions of ethical living in contexts of change. The conclusion reflects upon how self-fashioning is always also a political project, whereby young people position themselves locally but also translocally in relation to a range of “others.” The ambiguity of social evaluations, and the uncertainity as to how “others” evaluate young people’s everyday practices, forms a central focus of this discussion.

scholarly journals Introduction

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-41
Author(s):  
Anita Hardon
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Good Life ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Good Life ◽  
Psychoactive Substances ◽  
Everyday Lives ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Shared Understandings ◽  
Scholarly Attention

Abstract The everyday lives of contemporary youth are awash with chemicals to boost pleasure, energy, sexual performance, appearance, and health. What do pills, drinks, sprays, powders, and lotions do for youth? What effects are youth seeking? The ChemicalYouth ethnographies presented here, based on more than five years of fieldwork conducted in Amsterdam, Brooklyn, Cayagan de Oro, Paris, Makassar, Puerto Princesa, and Yogyakarta, show that young people try out chemicals together, compare experiences, and engage in collaborative experiments. ChemicalYouth: Navigating Uncertainty: In Search of the Good Life makes a case for examining a broader range of chemicals that young people use in their everyday lives. It focuses not just on psychoactive substances—the use of which is viewed with concern by parents, educators, and policymakers—but all the other chemicals that young people use to boost pleasure, moods, vitality, appearance, and health, purposes for using chemicals that have received far less scholarly attention. It takes the use of chemicals as situated practices that are embedded in social relations and that generate shared understandings of efficacy. More specifically, it seeks to answer the question: how do young people balance the benefits and harms of chemicals in their quest for a good life?

The use of assistive technology in the everyday lives of young people living with dementia and their caregivers. Can a simple remote control make a difference?

2014 ◽  
Vol 26 (12) ◽  
pp. 2011-2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rita Jentoft ◽  
Torhild Holthe ◽  
Cathrine Arntzen
Keyword(s):  
Remote Control ◽  
Young People ◽  
Assistive Technology ◽  
Situated Learning ◽  
Participatory Design ◽  
Everyday Lives ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
User Friendly ◽  
The Impact

ABSTRACTBackground:This study was a part of a larger study exploring the impact of assistive technology on the lives of young people living with dementia (YPD). This paper focuses on one of the most useful devices, the simple remote control (SRC). The objective was to explore the reason why the SRC is significant and beneficial in the everyday lives of YPD and their caregivers.Methods:This qualitative longitudinal study had a participatory design. Eight participants received an SRC. The range for using it was 0–15 months. In-depth interviews and observations were conducted at baseline and repeated every third month up to 18 months. A situated learning approach was used in the analysis to provide a deeper understanding of the significance and use of SRC.Results:Young people having dementia spend a substantial amount of time alone. Watching television was reported to be important, but handling remote controls was challenging and created a variety of problems. YPD learned to use SRC, which made important differences in the everyday lives of all family members. Comprehensive support from caregivers and professionals was important for YPD in the learning process.Conclusions:The SRC was deemed a success because it solved challenges regarding the use of television in everyday lives of families. The design was recognizable and user-friendly, thus allowing YPD to learn its operation. Access to professional support and advice regarding assistive technology is vital for establishing a system for follow-up and continued collaboration to make future adaptations and adjustments.

Consuming the Car: Anticipation, Use and Meaning in Contemporary Youth Culture

2002 ◽  
Vol 50 (2) ◽  
pp. 181-196 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eamonn Carrabine ◽  
Brian Longhurst
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Social Science ◽  
Youth Culture ◽  
Personal Mobility ◽  
Car Use ◽  
Everyday Lives ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Science Discussion

Drawing on evidence from a recently conducted study of the everyday lives of young people in Manchester, UK, this article considers the place of cars in contemporary youth culture. The article acknowledges the recent beginnings of sociological and social science discussion of cars but concurs with the view that this topic has been much neglected. More specifically the study of young people and personal mobility has been constrained by approaches that emphasise the problematic nature of this phenomena or locate it within a theory of subculture. Taking its cue from recent studies of consumption, this paper offers an alternative theorisation. Refinement of the work on television consumption by Roger Silverstone leads to a discussion of more affluent young people's relationships to cars under three heads: anticipation, use and meaning. It is suggested that car use must be seen in the framework of sociability and networks and that it also critically and suggestively mediates ordinary consumption with imaginative possibilities.

Morality at the Margins

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah Hillewaert
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
National Economy ◽  
Central Concern ◽  
Everyday Lives ◽  
Moral Personhood ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Religious Piety ◽  
Anthropological Approach ◽  
National Campaigns

This book considers the day-to-day lives of young Muslims on the island of Lamu (Kenya) who live simultaneously “on the edge and in the center”: they are situated at the edge of the (inter)national economy and at the margins of Western notions of modernity; yet they are concurrently the focus of (inter)national campaigns against Islamic radicalization and are at the heart of Western (touristic) imaginations of the untouched and secluded. What does it mean to be young, modern, and Muslim in this context? And how are these denominators differently imagined and enacted in daily encounters? Documenting the everyday lives of Lamu youth, this ethnography explores how young people negotiate different cultural, religious, political and economic pressures and expectations through nuanced deployments of language, dress, and bodily comportment. It thereby illustrates how seemingly mundane practices—from how young people greet others, to how they walk, dress, and talk—can become tactics in the negotiation of moral personhood. A central concern of the book lies with the shifting meaning and ambiguity of such everyday signs and thus the dangers of semiotic misconstrual. By examining this uncertainty of interpretation in projects of self-fashioning, the book highlights how shifting and scalable discourses of tradition, modernity, secularization, nationalism, and religious piety inform changing notions of moral subjectivity. Documenting how Lamu youth navigate this contested field in a fast-changing place with a fascinating history, this book offers a distinctly linguistic anthropological approach to discussions of ethical self-fashioning and everyday Islam.

scholarly journals Photography and the Visual Particularities of Young People on the Autism Spectrum

2016 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Uschi Klein
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Visual Culture ◽  
Lived Experiences ◽  
Autism Spectrum ◽  
Everyday Lives ◽  
Sensory Experiences ◽  
Autistic People ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Sensory Modalities ◽  
The World

Photographs are created, recreated and shared extensively and repeatedly, suggesting that people have little choice but to look at them. Nonetheless, the diverse ways of seeing in contemporary visual culture entail different visions, experiences and practices of visuality. This article suggests autistic people approach photography in their own ways to visually express their everyday lives. While sensory experiences differ in autistic individuals, they appear to embody visuality with their sensory modalities, using primarily their vision, but also their kinaesthetic experience and proprioceptive awareness to photograph the world around them.   Drawing from findings from an empirical study on the photographic practices of young people on the autism spectrum, this paper discusses how two participants use photography to capture the ways they see the world. Photography provides a context in which individuals can illustrate their visual experiences, and specific and diverse social and personal realities. The medium encourages them to make, use and discuss their own photographs, which, in turn, generates thoughts of lived experiences on which they may otherwise never reflect. While offering new insights into how photography mediates autistic individuals’ sensory perceptions of their visual world, this paper will further consider the contributions photography makes to the everyday lives of autistic people. 

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