'Peripheral Youth' Talk Back: Work, the Self and the 'Good Life' in India and the U.K.

Autor/in	Karollil, Mamatha
Titel	'Peripheral Youth' Talk Back: Work, the Self and the 'Good Life' in India and the U.K.
Quelle	In: Journal of Education and Work, 35 (2022) 1, S.50-63 (14 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Karollil, Mamatha)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1363-9080
DOI	10.1080/13639080.2021.2002830
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Employment; Work Attitudes; Cultural Influences; Developing Nations; Developed Nations; Young Adults; Global Approach; Identification (Psychology); Biographies; Aspiration; India; United Kingdom (Glasgow) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Dienstverhältnis; Work attitude; Arbeitshaltung; Cultural influence; Kultureinfluss; Developing country; Developing countries; Entwicklungsland; Developed countries; Industriestaat; Industrieland; Young adult; Junger Erwachsener; Globales Denken; Biography; Biografie; Biographie; Streben; Indien
Abstract	This paper presents constructions of 'work' through a comparative charting of the manner in which young people across rural India, urban India, and the urban UK account for their educational and work trajectories. The comparison grounds an interrogation of the individualisation thesis and the reflexive biography, an influential analytical framework for examining youth biographies in the Global North, bringing it into conversation with theoretical traditions that study youth identities/biographies in a global framework such as development studies and human geography. Employing a conceptual framework that places youth subjectivities as it forms and is formed by place (material and structural features) and cultural norms concerning ideal selfhood, I analyse the accounts for the reflexive management of biographies, the cultural/structural resources that participants draw upon in constructing these, and the moral frameworks underlying aspirations for the 'good life' in these accounts. Responding to calls for dialogues between the Global North and Global South in youth studies, the aim is to de-valorise reflexivity and choice in biographical management by highlighting some psychological penalties associated with these modes of self-construction in late modernity and thereby to 'talk back' to some of the assumptions underlying youth studies in/from the Global North. (As Provided).
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Update	2022/4/11