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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"youth agency"”.
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Being a teen, tween and in-between girl in Mitchell's Plain: toward a heterogenous conception of youth agency in a Global South city
How do young South Africans assert agency? This study uses Emirbayer and Mische's (1998) theoretical conception of agency as temporally embedded and constantly reconfiguring; and combines it with the idea of shifting strategies as manifestations of agency. I introduce the seminal works in South …
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Preparing in Libraries: Educational Change, Joblessness, and Youth Practice in North India
… wider debates on educational privatisation and youth agency, the thesis argues that young people are responding to the crisis of unemployment through everyday preparation for recruitment in government jobs within emerging private, commodified study-spaces that they term libraries. In relation to …
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Just say no to 'just say no' : tensions in organizational approaches to youth and online privacy in the Americas
… organizational practices in the field of youth online privacy in the Americas. I describe harms created by protective, universalist, individualistic approaches that pose youth as conditional citizens, and make a case for approaches based instead on youth agency, intersectional views of …
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Countering Youth Incarceration: Community Strategies in New Orleans and Cape Town
… remedial strategies addressing high youth incarceration and recidivism rates in the cities of Cape Town and New Orleans. Working within a theoretical framework of structural violence, I argue that the dominant discourse of Criminal Justice is based in punitive and retributive …
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Storying the past, navigating the present, imagining the future: Being and becoming young social activists in Aotearoa New Zealand
… draws attention to contextual perspectives on youth agency and the ways in which young activists are simultaneously constructing identities and performing agency. It is the first study in Aotearoa New Zealand to do so through examining young activists self-understandings. Data were iteratively …
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Young Moroccans Navigating Family, School and Work: Exploring Agency in contexts of Neoliberalism and Coloniality
… and international organization discourses on youth in the Middle East and North Africa have solidified in two directions. One perspective presents the group as a threat to the security and fabric of their nations, potential purveyors of delinquency and extremism, in states of "waithood." The …
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An investigation into the relevance of shared mental models in youth work settings, supporting young people to achieve positive outcomes.
… models (SMMS) in developing the effectiveness of youth work teams. Much of the literature states that SMMs are crucial for team efficacy in healthcare settings, business, and aviation, although there is limited research about their development. Cooper et al. (2016) explored teamwork and …
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Exploring the impact of post-high school experiences on the social identities of newly graduated girls
… these changes impact their ability to exercise agency in resisting the risk of becoming NEET (Not in Employment, Education, or Training). Using hermeneutic phenomenology, the study delved into the lived experiences of these young women, highlighting the complex interplay of socioeconomic status, …
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Affecting the gun debate: Art and performance as arguments for collective action
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2025-02-04 without embargo terms