Critical Youth Studies for the 21st Century

Peter Kelly is Deputy Head of School of Education (Research and Innovation), RMIT University. His previous books include Working in Jamie’s Kitchen: Passion, Salvation and Young Workers, and The Self as Enterprise: Foucault and the ‘Spirit’ of 21st Century Capitalism.Annelies Kamp lectures and researches at Dublin City University in Ireland where she is responsible for the Masters programme in Education & Training Management (Leadership). She is also the author of Rethinking Learning Networks: Collaborative Possibilities for a Deleuzian Century.

• Notes on the ContributorsEssay – 21st Century HinterlandsPeter Kelly & Annelies Kamp First Gathering: Troubling Education and TransitionOn BecomingAnnelies Kamp & Peter Kelly1. Young People and the Social Consequences of the Post-Industrial Economy: Lessons from JapanAndy Furlong2. A Critical Reassessment of the ‘Complexity’ Orthodoxy: Lessons from Existing Data and Youth ‘Legacy’ StudiesJohn Goodwin & Henrietta O’Connor3. Beyond ‘Biographical’ and ‘Cultural Illusions’ in European Youth Studies: Temporality and Critical Youth Studies.Magda Nico4. The Ambiguous Mobilities of Young AustraliansLucas Walsh & Rosalyn Black5. Young People and Food: The Moral Project of the Healthy SelfJo Pike6. (Dis)ability and Choice: The Dilemmas of Young People’s Transition to Further and Higher Education in IrelandGeraldine Scanlon, Michael Shevlin & Conor McGuckin7. Deleuze and the Teenage Mother: Trouble Makers for Thinking Education and TransitionAnnelies KampSecond Gathering: Wild and Tame Zones: Governmentalities and the Problem of Young People Where the Wild Things ArePeter Kelly & Annelies Kamp8. On Fictions and Wicked Problems in Juvenile Justice: Towards a Critical Youth StudiesRob Watts9. Religiosity and the Problem of Belonging for Amerindian Young People in BrazilMaria de Lourdes de Beldi Alacantara10. The Problems of Child Labour and Education in Peru: A Critical Analysis of ‘Universal’ Approaches to Youth Development.Dena Aufseeser11. Running to the Future: Youth Inequalities, Homelessness and Points of ReinsertionJoan Smith, Nora Duckett & Filipa Menezes12. A Tale of Two Crises: Young People and the Great Recession in Portugal and IrelandDavid Cairns13. Resisting Youth and the Crushing State Violence of Neoliberalism Henry A. GirouxThird Gathering: Assemblages, Hybridities, Mobilities? Globalization and Young People’s IdentitiesOn AssemblageAnnelies Kamp & Peter Kelly14. Queer Youth Research/ers: A Reflexive Account of Risk and Intimacy in an Ethical (Mine)fieldJodie Taylor & Angela Dwyer15. Youth Culture in/beyond Indonesia: Hybridity or Assemblage?Pam Nilan16. Wangba and Heterotopian Experiences: Urban Chinese Young People and Their Use of Internet CafesFengshu Liu17. Bloods, Crips and Southern Cross Soldiers: Gang Identities in AustraliaAmelia Johns18. Fostering Complicit Femininity: Epoch, Education and the Young Female BodyMajella McSharry & Brendan Walsh19. Iraqi and US Contact Zones: Encountering Young People on the Frontlines of the War on TerrorPerri Campbell & Luke Howie20. Youth Research as Transformative Social Critique: Uncertainties of Young People in Post-Socialist LithuaniaHerwig ReiterFourth Gathering: On Actants and Method AssemblagesEssay – ANT(sy) YouthAnnelies Kamp & Peter Kelly21. Our Troubling Fix on Urban Adolescents: A New York StoryMadeline Fox & Michelle Fine22. Re-imagining Youth Participation in the 21st Century: Young People in Aotearoa New Zealand Speak OutChristina Ergler & Bronwyn Wood23. Beyond the Romance of Participatory Youth ResearchAnn Dadich24. Moving Beyond ‘Frail’ Democracy: a Youth-Led Youth StudiesTheo Gavrielides25. ‘Elegant Subversion’: Beyond Deficit and Compensation to Education for ‘Communities of Promise’David Zyngier26. Justice Citizens: Contesting Young People’s Participation and Citizenship at the Start of the 21st CenturyKeith Heggart27. The Institutionalization of Ethics: Challenges for Community-Based Research with Young People in the 21st CenturyKeri Schwab & Laurie Browne28. Making Meaning with the Meaning Makers: Ethnography, Risk and Young British HolidaymakersDaniel Briggs29. Disruption, Disassembling and Unthinking: 21st Century Youth Work in England and Some Lessons for Critical Youth StudiesDeirdre DuffyFifth Gathering: What is/can be Critical about Critical Youth Studies in the 21st Century?An ‘Untimely’ Youth Studies?Peter Kelly & Annelies Kamp30. The Politics of the Newcomer: Notes on a Critical Social Theory of Youth Adnan Selimovic31. Critical Youth Studies in an Individualized and Globalized World: Making the Most of Bourdieu and BeckDan Woodman & Steve Threadgold32. What is Critique? The Critical Potential of Foucault’s Genealogy Anna Anderson33. Towards a Non-Normative Youth Studies? A Framework for a Critical Conversation between Psychologies and Sociologies of Young PeopleVappu Tyyskä & James Côté34. In Pursuit of El Dorado: Notes on an Encounter with Youth Policy in Terra IncognitaJudith Bessant35. Zygmunt Bauman’s Challenge for Critical Youth Studies: Ambivalence and the Re-enchantment of a Social Scientific ImaginationPeter KellyIndex