Youth, Young Adulthood and Society
About the Book Series
The Youth, Young Adulthood and Society series approaches youth as a distinct area, bringing together social scientists from many disciplines to present cutting-edge research monographs and collections on young people in societies around the world today. The books present original, exciting research, with strongly theoretically- and empirically-grounded analysis, advancing the field of youth studies. Originally set up and edited by Andy Furlong, the series presents interdisciplinary and truly international, comparative research monographs.
Contacts for the series:
Professor Tracy Shildrick: [email protected]
Professor John Goodwin: [email protected]
Professor Henrietta O'Connor: [email protected]
Emily Briggs at Routledge: [email protected]
Youth Homelessness and Survival Sex: Intimate Relationships and Gendered Subjectivities
1st Edition
By Juliet Watson
June 04, 2019
Survival sex, commonly understood to be the exchange of sex for material support, is a practice that is associated with young homeless women. However, such a narrow definition of survival sex fails to recognise the multiple, complex, and coexisting motivations of young homeless women for engaging ...
Youth, Class and Everyday Struggles
1st Edition
By Steven Threadgold
May 24, 2019
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 to think about the ways young people are pushed and pulled by the normative demands directed at them from an early age, ...
Young Migrant Identities: Creativity and Masculinity
1st Edition
By Sherene Idriss
May 21, 2019
In this day and age, much has been discussed as to what it means ‘to be an Arab’. However, this enlightening volume seeks instead to invite us deeper into young Arab–Australian men’s lives as we explore their vocational aspirations and working experiences within highly racialised and hierarchical ...
Muslim Youth in the Diaspora: Challenging Extremism through Popular Culture
1st Edition
By Pam Nilan
May 17, 2019
In a world where the term Islam is ever-increasingly an inaccurate and insensitive synonym for terrorism, it is unsurprising that many Muslim youth in the West struggle for a viable sense of identity. This book takes up the hotly-debated issue of Muslim youth identity in western countries from the...
Young People and the Aesthetics of Health Promotion: Beyond Reason, Rationality and Risk
1st Edition
By Kerry Montero, Peter Kelly
May 17, 2019
Health promotion with young people has largely been framed by theories of behaviour change to target ‘unsafe’, ‘unhealthy’ and/or ‘risky’ behaviours. These theories and models seek to encourage the development in young people of reasoned, rational and risk-aware personal strategies. This book ...
Body Work: Youth, Gender and Health
1st Edition
By Julia Coffey
May 17, 2018
The rise of the health, beauty and fitness industries in recent years has led to an increased focus on the body. Body image, gender and health are issues of long-standing concern in sociology and in youth studies, but a theoretical and empirical focus on the body has been largely missing from this ...
The Subcultural Imagination: Theory, Research and Reflexivity in Contemporary Youth Cultures
1st Edition
Edited
By Shane Blackman, Michelle Kempson
March 09, 2018
The Subcultural Imagination discusses young adults in subcultures and examines how sociologists use qualitative research methods to study them. Through the application of the ideas of C. Wright Mills to the development of theory-reflexive ethnography, this book analyses the experiences of young ...