Youth as/in Crisis : Young People, Public Policy, and the Politics of Learning / / edited by Sara Carpenter, Shahrzad Mojab.

• HerausgeberIn: Carpenter, Sara.; Mojab, Shahrzad.
• Place / Publishing House: Rotterdam : : SensePublishers :, Imprint: SensePublishers,, 2017.
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Edition: 1st ed. 2017.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (CCVI, 8 p.)
• Notes: Includes index.

Internationally, there is a growing argument amongst policy makers and academics that broadening spectrums of young adults are ‘at-risk’ of various types of material, social, physical, and cultural insecurity. In this way, the traditional identification of transitions from youth to adulthood, marked by points of permanence such as stable employment, are beginning to fray. Through various academic, popular, and policy literatures, young people today are imagined as being both ‘threatened’ by social inequality as well as a ‘threat’ against which our notions of security and social cohesion are constructed. This edited collection includes empirical and theoretical work concerning the relationships between youth/young adults, public policy, and educational research, with its primary focus being new forms of public policy in Canada that, we argue, are emblematic of international policy instruments examining the policy and economic participation of young people. Examining key sites of youth participation, including post-secondary institutions, community-based programs, and work/employment programs, the included case studies examine how young people navigate and learn from everyday experiences of marginalization and violence while at the same time illuminating how these experiences are organized and reproduced through the very institutions that are meant to shape young people’s engagement in society.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material / Sara Carpenter and Shahrzad Mojab -- Youth, Policy, and Research / Sara Carpenter and Shahrzad Mojab -- “Youth” as Theory, Method, and Praxis / Genevieve Ritchie -- Critical Youth Participatory Action Research / Paula V. Elias -- Alternative Futures for Work-Related and Vocational Education / Kiran Mirchandani and Meaghan Brugha -- The “Youth” Crisis in Nova Scotia / Stephanie MacKinnon -- The Ontario Youth Outreach Worker Program as Racialized Spatial Praxis / Ahmed Ahmed and Sara Carpenter -- Difference Is / André P. Grace -- Where Do I Begin? / Trevor Corkum -- “Isn’t the Right to an Education a Human Right?” / Tanya Aberman and Philip Ackerman -- Exploring Transitions of Young Black Men Who Have Sex with Men in Canadian Urban Contexts / Lance T. McCready and David A. Pereira -- The Politics of Participation / Chloe Shantz-Hilkes -- Youth, Crisis, and Learning / Scott Zoltok -- About the Authors / Sara Carpenter and Shahrzad Mojab -- Index / Sara Carpenter and Shahrzad Mojab.