This article reviews current social policy and penal policy responses to risk, with particular
attention to how policies of responsibilization have implications for rights leading to an …

In this review I explore the connections between debates about the transformation of work in
a service-dominated economy and those about classed and gendered identities. I suggest …

This article takes recent critiques of the conceptualisation of 'youth as transition'and explores
the extent to which 'generation'offers a more effective way of conceptualising youth. There is …

This paper argues that a particular form of Selfhood has come to dominate the horizons of
identity in the Western democracies at this time—I refer to this form of personhood as the …

Young people, it seems, are both everywhere and nowhere. The media are crowded with
images of youth as deviant or fashionable, personifying a society's anxieties and hopes …

This paper will argue that a major problem for young people today is that they increasingly
cause adults anxiety. This anxiety translates into a raft of interventions and strategies and …

ABSTRACT 'Youth'as a social category is used and abused in all manner of ways across an
array of fields, platforms, discourses and spaces, Youth Studies notwithstanding. When we …

Policy makers, professionals and the public have become increasingly concerned with
identifying and managing young people who are not only troubled or at risk, but troubling or …

This book provides an engaging account of the moral lives of young black South Africans
once the struggle against apartheid ended and took away their object of political resistance …

The concept of everyday struggles can enliven our understanding of the lives of young
people and how social class is made and remade. This book invokes a Bourdieusian spirit …