The freedom to care

2020 ◽  
pp. 203-242
Author(s):  
Wendy Luttrell
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Young People ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Institutional Racism ◽  
Capitalist Society ◽  
Care Work ◽  
Social Orientation ◽  
School Students ◽  
Race And Class ◽  
Human Value

This chapter reflects on distorted visions of education, care, and freedom. It revisits the contours of the kids' perspectives of care as they played out over the course of the project, examining what these young people have to say about care—its value, its rewards, its invisibilities, and contradictions. Against this backdrop, the chapter considers the current realities of care in a neoliberal capitalist society, limited and structured by gender-, race-, and class-bias; institutional racism and anti-Blackness; and economic strictures that narrow people's conceptualizations of time, productivity, and human value. The young people's visions offer much-needed hope—and in their understandings, one can locate possibilities for a new narrative of care. Drawing on the continuing challenges that the Park Central School students identified and the insights that they offered, the chapter then imagines an alternative social orientation in which care and care work take their rightful place at the center of everyday life—highly visible and highly regarded not only in the spheres of family and school, but in the very fabric of democratic society and in the fundamental understanding of freedom and social justice itself.

scholarly journals "No better than the Feminazis;" Emancipatory Potential in the Contradictions and Complexities of Young People's Understandings of Politics, Gender and Work

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Victoria Thompson
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Secondary School ◽  
Secondary School Students ◽  
Subjective Experience ◽  
Full Employment ◽  
Care Work ◽  
Full Time ◽  
School Students ◽  
Unpaid Care ◽  
Gender And Work

<p>The intersecting politics of gender and work influence the changing nature of work itself, and how it is experienced. Unemployment, underemployment, precarity, and overwork, along with issues concerning unpaid care work and housework, impact upon an increasingly significant and disparate group of people. This warrants a critical reflection on assumptions concerning the creation of fixed identities around occupations. The emerging workforce is especially affected by the fact that “good” jobs (full-time, decently paid careers) are increasingly difficult to find, and at the same time, the scarcity of long-term jobs can cause people to be more committed to the workplace to ensure the security of ongoing employment.This further complicates the focus on full employment as a perceived marker of gender equality; not to mention the implications of an increased commitment to formal employment on the dual-wage labour market (such as housekeepers and nannies) and unpaid care work. However, literature concerning the feminist challenging of work and other approaches to the theorisation of work, as well as how perceived changes to work influence the future/emerging workforce, is currently limited. This research will, accordingly, focus on these areas. In this thesis, I am interested in examining the nature of political engagement, and how it is affected by changes to the prioritisation of time, access to material resources, and the dwindling of a fixed occupational identity. Of specific interest is how these wider issues are perceived by young people (secondary school students in New Zealand), rather than the subjective experience of people currently in the workforce. Young people are often characterised as having straightforwardly adopted the norms and values of neoliberalism, as opposed to being politically engaged. This research is made up in equal parts from theoretical and empirical components. Firstly, the theoretical work of Autonomist Marxists Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri, and feminist economic geographers Katherine Gibson and Julie Graham (known as J.K Gibson-Graham) provide a framework that allows young people’s engagement with politics to be recognised and understood as multifaceted, meaningful and agent-driven. Secondly, findings from focus group research conducted with secondary school students highlights the socially-generated nature of knowledge itself, bringing language that young people use to discuss these issues to the forefront. Combining these two modes of analysis highlights the complexities and nuances of young people’s understandings of these issues, advancing theory on how young people engage politically.</p>

scholarly journals "No better than the Feminazis;" Emancipatory Potential in the Contradictions and Complexities of Young People's Understandings of Politics, Gender and Work

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Victoria Thompson
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Secondary School ◽  
Secondary School Students ◽  
Subjective Experience ◽  
Full Employment ◽  
Care Work ◽  
Full Time ◽  
School Students ◽  
Unpaid Care ◽  
Gender And Work

<p>The intersecting politics of gender and work influence the changing nature of work itself, and how it is experienced. Unemployment, underemployment, precarity, and overwork, along with issues concerning unpaid care work and housework, impact upon an increasingly significant and disparate group of people. This warrants a critical reflection on assumptions concerning the creation of fixed identities around occupations. The emerging workforce is especially affected by the fact that “good” jobs (full-time, decently paid careers) are increasingly difficult to find, and at the same time, the scarcity of long-term jobs can cause people to be more committed to the workplace to ensure the security of ongoing employment.This further complicates the focus on full employment as a perceived marker of gender equality; not to mention the implications of an increased commitment to formal employment on the dual-wage labour market (such as housekeepers and nannies) and unpaid care work. However, literature concerning the feminist challenging of work and other approaches to the theorisation of work, as well as how perceived changes to work influence the future/emerging workforce, is currently limited. This research will, accordingly, focus on these areas. In this thesis, I am interested in examining the nature of political engagement, and how it is affected by changes to the prioritisation of time, access to material resources, and the dwindling of a fixed occupational identity. Of specific interest is how these wider issues are perceived by young people (secondary school students in New Zealand), rather than the subjective experience of people currently in the workforce. Young people are often characterised as having straightforwardly adopted the norms and values of neoliberalism, as opposed to being politically engaged. This research is made up in equal parts from theoretical and empirical components. Firstly, the theoretical work of Autonomist Marxists Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri, and feminist economic geographers Katherine Gibson and Julie Graham (known as J.K Gibson-Graham) provide a framework that allows young people’s engagement with politics to be recognised and understood as multifaceted, meaningful and agent-driven. Secondly, findings from focus group research conducted with secondary school students highlights the socially-generated nature of knowledge itself, bringing language that young people use to discuss these issues to the forefront. Combining these two modes of analysis highlights the complexities and nuances of young people’s understandings of these issues, advancing theory on how young people engage politically.</p>

Restructuring Educational Systems and Promoting Social Justice for Young People Involved in Drug Trafficking in Brazil

2019 ◽  
Vol 227 (2) ◽  
pp. 139-143 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alex Sandro Gomes Pessoa ◽  
Linda Liebenberg ◽  
Dorothy Bottrell ◽  
Silvia Helena Koller
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Social Justice ◽  
Young People ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Drug Trafficking ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Educational Systems ◽  
Economic Changes ◽  
2030 Agenda ◽  
Development Goals

Abstract. Economic changes in the context of globalization have left adolescents from Latin American contexts with few opportunities to make satisfactory transitions into adulthood. Recent studies indicate that there is a protracted period between the end of schooling and entering into formal working activities. While in this “limbo,” illicit activities, such as drug trafficking may emerge as an alternative for young people to ensure their social participation. This article aims to deepen the understanding of Brazilian youth’s involvement in drug trafficking and its intersection with their schooling, work, and aspirations, connecting with Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) 4 and 16 as proposed in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development adopted by the United Nations in 2015 .

RAISE IT UP!! Youth Arts and Awareness

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Natasha Thomas-Jackson
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Social Justice ◽  
Young People ◽  
Social Transformation ◽  
Family Members ◽  
Community Leaders ◽  
Youth Engagement ◽  
Literary Arts ◽  
Systemic Oppression ◽  
Creative Self

RAISE IT UP! Youth Arts and Awareness (RIU) is an organization that promotes youth engagement, expression, and empowerment through the use of performance and literary arts and social justice activism. We envision a world where youth are fully recognized, valued, and supported as artist-activists and emerging thought leaders, working to create a world that is just, intersectional, and inclusive. Two fundamental tenets shape RIU’s policies, practices, and pedagogy. The first is that creative self-expression and culture making are powerful tools for personal and social transformation. The second is that social justice is truly possible only if and when we are willing to have transparent and authentic conversations about the oppression children experience at the hands of the adults in their lives. We are committed to amplifying youth voices and leadership and building cross-generational solidarity among people of all ages, particularly those impacted by marginalization. Though RIU is focused on and driven by the youth, a large part of our work includes helping adult family members, educators, and community leaders understand the ways in which systemic oppression shapes our perceptions of and interactions with the young people in our homes, neighborhoods, institutions, and decision-making bodies.

Methods of Countering Cyber Recruitment (Iraq Model)

2019 ◽  
pp. 196
Author(s):  
Hind Mohammed Abdul Jabbar Ali
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Young People ◽  
Young Men ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Information Network ◽  
Political Repression ◽  
Electronic Information ◽  
Terrorist Organizations ◽  
Other Hand

Connecting to the  electronic information network (internet) became the most characteristic that distinguish this era However , the long hours which young men daily spend on the internet On the other hand ,there are many people who are waiting for the chance to talk and convince them with their views This will lead the young people to be part in the project of the “cyber armies “that involved with states and terrorist organizations  This project has been able  to recruitment hundreds of people every day to work in its rank . It is very difficult to control these websites because we can see the terrorist presence in all its forms in the internet   In addition there are many incubation environments that feed in particular the young people minds                                                                                         Because they are suffering from the lack of social justice Also the unemployment, deprivation , social and political repression So , that terrorist organizations can attract young people through the internet by convincing them to their views and ideas . So these organizations will enable to be more  stronger.

МОДА ЯК ВИДОВИЩЕ: ЕТНОКУЛЬТУРНІ ТА МІФОЛОГІЧНІ ВИМІРИ

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Admink Admink
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Young People ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Cultural Influences ◽  
Ethnic Culture ◽  
The Earth ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Variety Show

Прослідковуються урбанізаційні та дезурбанізаційні процеси в моді ХХ ст. Звернено увагу на недостатню вивченість питань естетичних та культурологічних аспектів формування моди як видовища в контексті образного простору культури повсякдення. Визначено видовищні виміри модної діяльності як комунікативної сцени. Наголошено на необхідності актуалізації народних мотивів свята, творчості в гурті, певної стилізації у митців та дизайнерів моди мистецтва ностальгійного, втраченого світу з метою осягнення фольклорної, глибинної стихії моди як екомунікативного простору культури повсякдення. Ключові слова: міф, мода, етнокультура, етнос, свято, площа Ключові слова: міф, мода, етнокультура, етнос, свято, площа. According to E. Moren ethnic cultural influences take place in urbanized environment and turn it into "island ontology".Everyday life ethnic culture is differentiated, specified as a certain type of spectacle. However, all that powerful cosmologism, which used to exist as an open-air theater in settlements, near rivers, grasslands, roads, is disappearing. The everyday life culture loses imperatives, patterns, and cosmological designs, where, for example, the “plahta” contains rhombuses, squares, and rectangles - images of the earth, and the top of the costume symbolizes the sky. Yes, the symbolic marriage of earth and sky was a prerequisite for marrying young people. The article deals with traces of the urbanization and deurbanization processes in the twentieth century fashion.Key words: ethnic culture, culture of everyday life, ethnics, holidays, variety show, knockabout comedy, square.

Triangulations of “Motherly Love”: Negotiated Intimacies among Migrant Domestic Workers, Mothers, and Children

2021 ◽  
pp. 0192513X2199385
Author(s):  
Iris Hoiting
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Domestic Workers ◽  
Care Work ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Gender Expectations ◽  
Mothers And Children ◽  
Care Relationships ◽  
Relational Contexts ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
Migrant Domestic Workers

Persistent economic inequality between men and women, combined with differences in gender expectations and growing inequalities among women globally, has resulted in families “outsourcing” childcare by employing migrant domestic workers (MDWs). While studies have addressed the intimacy and complexity of “mothering” in such contexts, the agentic position of child-recipients of such care have seldom been explored. This article increases our understanding of care-relationships by examining their triangularity among children, MDWs, and mothers in Hong Kong. Drawing on in-depth interviews with young people who grew up with MDWs, alongside interviews with MDWs themselves, this article describes processes through which care work transforms into what Lynch describes as “love labor” in these relational contexts. In these contexts, commodified care from MDWs can develop, through a process of mutual trilateral negotiations, into intimate love-laboring relationships that, in turn, reflect larger dynamics of familial transformation that are endemic to “global cities.”

scholarly journals Exploring the functions of music in the lives of young people on the autism spectrum

2021 ◽  
pp. 030573562110089
Author(s):  
Melissa L Kirby ◽  
Karen Burland
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis ◽  
Autism Spectrum ◽  
Phenomenological Analysis ◽  
Multiple Methods ◽  
Social Functions ◽  
Interview Technique ◽  
Autistic People ◽  
Insight Into

Current research investigating the functions of music in everyday life has identified cognitive, emotional, and social functions of music. However, previous research focuses almost exclusively on neurotypical people and rarely considers the musical experiences of autistic people. In addition, there is limited research which focuses explicitly on the musical experiences of young people on the autism spectrum. Current research exploring the functions of music may therefore not accurately represent the experiences of the autistic community. This article aims to explore the function of music in the lives of young people on the autism spectrum through a series of interviews. Eleven young people on the autism spectrum age 12 to 25 ( M = 19.4) were interviewed about the function of music in their lives. An adaptive interview technique, utilizing multiple methods of communication, was employed to account for the participants’ broad communicative and personal needs. Interpretative phenomenological analysis revealed four key functions of music in the participants’ lives: Cognitive, Emotional, Social, and Identity. Collectively, these results provide a unique insight into the musical experiences of young people on the autism spectrum.

scholarly journals How does career guidance at schools encounter migrant young people? Interactional practices that hinder socially just guidance

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sanna Vehviläinen ◽  
Anne-Mari Souto
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Young People ◽  
Career Guidance ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
School Career ◽  
Interaction Research

AbstractThe aim of this article is to show how interaction research can contribute to the understanding and praxis of socially just guidance. The article is theoretical, but it makes use of our previous empirical studies. We combine the ethnographic study of school and racism, and interactional research on guidance. We define guidance for social justice, explaining how this translates to the level of interactional practices. We show two empirical examples of interactional phenomena hindering socially just praxis. We lastly discuss our practical conclusions on how to help school career counsellors change their interactional practices.

scholarly journals The impact of young people's participation in events

2014 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 198-218 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eliza Hixson
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Identity Development ◽  
Focus Groups ◽  
Social Impact ◽  
Transitional Period ◽  
School Students ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Social ◽  
Sense Of Involvement ◽  
The Impact

Purpose – This paper aims to explore the social impact that two events, the Adelaide Fringe Festival and the Clipsal 500, have on young residents (16-19 years old) of Adelaide. The purpose of this paper is to examine how young people participate in these events and how this affects their sense of involvement in the event and contributes to their identity development. Design/methodology/approach – A mixed methods approach was adopted in which focus groups and questionnaires were conducted with secondary school students. As an exploratory study, focus groups (n=24) were conducted in the first stage of the research. The results of the focus groups were used to develop a questionnaire that resulted in 226 useable responses. The final stage of the research explored one event in further depth in order to determine the influence of different participation levels. Findings – This study found that young people demonstrated more involvement in the Adelaide Fringe Festival and their identities were more influenced by this event. Further investigation of the Adelaide Fringe Festival also indicated that level of participation affects the social outcomes gained, with those participating to a greater degree achieving higher involvement and increased identity awareness. This is demonstrated through a model which aims to illustrate how an event impact an individual based on their role during the event. Originality/value – This paper applies two leisure concepts in order to analyse the impact of events. Activity involvement is a concept which examines the importance of the activity in the participant's life. Also of importance to young people is how activities contribute to their identities, especially because they are in a transitional period of their lives.

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