1st Edition
Resisting the Label How Young People Challenge Negative Everyday Representations
Introduction: Reflections on young people’s responses to negative everyday representations of themselves
Jo Deakin and Hilary Pilkington
1. At the ‘risky’ end of things: labelling, self-concept and the role of supportive relationships in young lives
Raquel Matos, Luísa Campos, Filipe Martins, Jo Deakin, Alexandra Carneiro, Claire Fox and Anna Markina
2. Not apologising for a community: young people’s responses to misrecognition and stigma
Hilary Pilkington, Necla Acik, Aet Annist, Iris Dähnke, Nadya Nartova, Iskender Yasaveev and Anastasiia Shilova
3. When visibility becomes political: visibility and stigmatisation of young people
Vanja Dergić, Iris Dähnke, Nadya Nartova, Anastasiia Shilova, Raquel Matos and Alexandra Carneiro
4. Youth in conflict: space and subculture
Benjamin Perasović, Marko Mustapić, Zyab Luis Ibañez Garzaran, Heta Mulari and Roman Hofreiter
5. Heading for a better world: micropolitical activism of young people seeking social change
Eckart Müller-Bachmann, Ivan Chorvát and Alessia Mefalopulos
6. ‘Pro-moral order’ activism: a study of diversity within youth communities of struggle in St Petersburg
Alena Kravtsova and Elena Omelchenko
Biography
Jo Deakin is Senior Lecturer in Criminology and Criminal Justice at Manchester University, UK. Her work explores the intersection of youth work, justice, and social policy, focusing on young people's responses to criminalization and stigma.
Hilary Pilkington is Professor of Sociology at the University of Manchester, UK, and Fellow of the UK Academy of Social Sciences. Her research explores youth cultural practices, political participation, and extremism.
Zyab Ibañez is Senior Researcher at the Institute of Government and Public Policies (IGOP) at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain. With a PhD from the European University Institute and an MSc from the London School of Economics, his research examines how institutional frameworks influence public policy implementation in employment, working- time, and migration.
Aet Annist is Associate Professor at the Department of Ethnology and UNESCO Chair in the Institute of Cultural Studies, University of Tartu, Estonia. Her research examines social fragmentation, community resilience, and processes of dispossession in neoliberal contexts.
