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ItemNo Preview AvailableLiminality, COVID-19 and the long crisis of young adults' employment(WILEY, 2023-09)Abstract The COVID‐19 crisis has brought into sharp relief the precarious employment situation of young people, precipitating a raft of academic and public claims of an unprecedented crisis that has disrupted young lives. Our study contributes to research on youth labour and transitions with new longitudinal empirical analysis. Our analysis challenges the “newness” of the precarity highlighted by COVID‐19, focussing on employment. It draws on longitudinal mixed methods data from a research project tracking the transition to adulthood of young Australians. We make use of the concept of liminality to analyse the labour patterns for this group of young adults for the past 5 years. While we acknowledge the impact of COVID‐19 on young people's lives, our analysis reveals a precarisation of labour conditions for a significant proportion of participants that precedes the pandemic crisis. We conclude that the tendency in some youth research and in public discourse, to depict contemporary events as heralding “new” crises for young people, obscures the deeper structural arrangements that continually position the young to take the brunt of social and economic policies.
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ItemYoung People’s Mental Health(Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2022-06-01)
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ItemLearning to 'become somebody well': Challenges for educational policy(SPRINGER, 2007-12)
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ItemYoung people and citizenship: An everyday perspective( 2007-01-01)
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ItemBeyond apathetic or activist youth 'Ordinary' young people and contemporary forms of participation(SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD, 2010-02)This article addresses the changing nature of participation for young people. Our analysis is framed by the fragmentation of traditional institutions and the increasingly unpredictable nature of life trajectories. As a result, the identification of a crisis in young people’s engagement has become a recurrent theme in the literature, alongside a burgeoning interest in new forms of (sub)cultural participatory practices. We argue that there is further complexity in the reshaping of participation in times of social change, especially for a broad ‘mainstream’ of young people who are neither deeply apathetic about politics nor unconventionally engaged. Drawing on a research project with 970 young Australians, the article suggests that many young people are disenchanted with political structures that are unresponsive to their needs and interests, but that they remain interested in social and political issues and continue to seek recognition from the political system. At the same time, their participatory practices are not oriented towards spectacular antistate activism or cultural politics but take the form of informal, individualized and everyday activities.
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ItemYoung People's Politics and the Micro-Territories of the Local(ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD, 2009)
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ItemGeneration, youth and social change in Australia(Informa UK Limited, 2006-11-01)
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ItemConstructing identities and making careers: young people's perspectives on work and learning(ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD, 2007)