At Risk of What? Possibilities over Probabilities in the Study of Young Lives

Autor/inn/en	Foster, Karen Rebecca; Spencer, Dale
Titel	At Risk of What? Possibilities over Probabilities in the Study of Young Lives
Quelle	In: Journal of Youth Studies, 14 (2011) 1, S.125-143 (19 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1367-6261
Schlagwörter	Young Adults; Foreign Countries; Probability; Interviews; At Risk Persons; Welfare Services; Adolescents; Resilience (Psychology); Futures (of Society); Language Usage; Homeless People; Unemployment + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Young adult; Junger Erwachsener; Ausland; Wahrscheinlichkeitsrechnung; Wahrscheinlichkeitstheorie; Interviewing; Interviewtechnik; Risikogruppe; Fürsorgeeinrichtung; Adolescent; Adolescence; Adoleszenz; Jugend; Jugendalter; Jugendlicher; Future; Society; Zukunft; Sprachgebrauch; Homeless person; Homeless persons; Obdachloser; Arbeitslosigkeit
Abstract	This paper draws on a series of 45 interviews with recipients of social assistance between the ages of 16 and 24 to offer a critical assessment of the language of "risk" and "resilience." After briefly tracing the development of this vocabulary and approach in youth research, this paper argues in line with existing critiques (Kelly 2000, te Riele 2006, France 2007) that neither risk nor resilience is an appropriate way of coming to understand young people's past, present, or future lives. Moreover, the authors argue that the language of risk and resilience commits a form of "symbolic violence" (Bourdieu 1999, Frank 2002, Zizek 2008) against young people whose lives are presumably captured and finalized by this conceptual language. Instead, the authors propose that, when dealing with young people and the future, a focus on narrative and the "desirable futures" interviewees envision for themselves is a more humane, and in many respects a more fruitful way of approaching the study of young lives. (Contains 12 notes.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10