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An International Conference Organised by the British Sociological Association Youth Study Group.
Welcome to the second major conference to be organised by the BSA Youth Study Group. At a time when 'youth' issues are on top of academic, policy and media agendas, it is timely point at which to consider what we actually mean when we talk about 'youth'. The notion of 'youth' is indeed, currently hotly contested and for that reason, the time has come to reassess what it is, if anything, that unifies the experiences of young people world-wide.
This conference will examine a wide range of issues around youth research, theory, policy and practice set in a global context. In particular, it is concerned to bring together those researchers interested in issues to do with structural aspects of youth with others concerned with the cultural aspects of young people's lives. This conference is therefore intended to foster links between researchers in youth from a variety of backgrounds with the intention being to identify common ground for the study of young people in an ever-changing global context. The conference will be divided into four complimentary streams:
Cross-national youth research, policy and practice
Issues around contemporary youth policy and practice are influenced by differing political, social and cultural contexts. This stream will seek to address the common themes that unite global understandings of the 'youth' question. A key theme is how official and voluntary agencies are implicated in the construction of 'youth' and how cultures, transitions and the 'problem of youth' are understood in contemporary societies. For instance, can we identify a distinctively European youth? More specifically in this context, what merits are there to cross-national research and what sorts of problems confront those pursuing this sort of cross-national research into youth policy and youth work? Finally, and perhaps most crucially how should research into young people inform youth policy and practice?
Young people and exclusion in risk societies
Many commentators have talked about young people as being most vulnerable to the ups and downs of a so-called risk society. In recent decades economic restructuring has apparently hit young people especially hard. Discussions of youth employment, education, training and family life have provided a focus for young people as a socially excluded group. But how do young people cope with such exclusion? Do they actually consider themselves to be excluded and in what ways do they actively engage with the risk society? This stream is concerned with the ways in which young people navigate through risk and the ways in which theories of social change can help us understand what it means to be a young person at the beginning of the twenty-first century.
Youth (sub)cultures and identitiy
In recent years the concept of subculture has been challenged by post-subcultural theorists whose work draws upon contemporary concepts, such as 'scene' and 'neo-tribe', and which is often (although not always) substantiated by empirical research. Current research on youth also stresses the increasing fragmentation of youth as a result of new individualised identities created through body modification. It is also increasingly acknowledged that new technologies, notably the internet, are resulting in new forms of trans-regional youth cultural association which, in turn, problematizes the legitimacy of traditional subcultural theory. This stream is concerned with the changing nature of youth sub-cultures and youth sub-cultural theory. Issues concerning the relationship between local and global expressions of youth, ethnic and multi-ethnic youth, young people and social movements, identity and the body, and young people as consumers are therefore of particular interest.
Young people, globalization and citizenship
In a world in which the mass media appears to play a key role in constructing the world in which young people live it could be argued that the world is becoming a smaller place and that cultural aspects of young people lives are becoming homogenized the world over. Meanwhile, Europe-wide legislation might be said to promote a situation in which young people are becoming citizens of Europe. But are young people really accepted as citizens of contemporary society? In a world in which young people are often economically dependant, aren't young people more likely to be marginalized and if so what forms does such marginalization take? How much control do young people have in a global context in which their choices are arguably no more than superficial in nature?
Additional Information
We invite offers of papers from those working with young people from a variety of disciplinary and professional backgrounds, such as sociology, cultural studies, geography, youth policy, psychology and youth work and from any disciplinary or professional background which addresses the above issues The aim is to provide a forum for established researchers, academics and practitioners, as well as those new to the field, to present and discuss their ideas, whilst constructing a research agenda for 'youth studies' at the beginning of the twenty-first century. Papers which attempt to marry theoretical insights with practical everyday contexts are especially welcome. Abstracts for papers which do not directly address 'global' themes are also welcome.
Confirmed keynote speakers are:
Dr. Liza Catan, Director of the ESRC Youth Citzenship and Social Change Programme, UK. Professor Jonathon S. Epstein, Kent State University, USA. Professor Paul Willis, Wolverhampton University, UK.
The conference dinner will take place in the striking surroundings of the National Marine Aquarium, Plymouth.
Those interested in offering papers should contact Steve Miles with a brief abstract no more than 300 words which should be sent to the address below, no later than 8th June, 2001.
Dr Steve Miles,
Department of Sociology,
University of Plymouth,
Plymouth, England.
Tel. 01752 233285
Enquiries can also be e-mailed to Steve Miles at: s1miles@plymouth.ac.uk
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