Drawing on a range of research project by the authors, across the field of Youth Studies, this book explores the ‘turn’ to belonging within that field and considers how ideas about belonging intersect with concepts of transitions, participation, citizenship, and mobilities within a transnational, global world. The association of cosmopolitan and entrepreneurial aspirations with creative metropolitan economies, the ways in which discourses and paths related to international students govern norms of mobility, the processes by which urban hegemonies serve to support out-migration from rural areas and often make rural schools ‘talent exporters’ of the best students in their communities, and the ways in which second-generation immigrant youth experience belonging dissonance related to racism are all explored in depth. The book also critiques the ways in which the idea of belonging has been used to point to issues rather than to analyze or systematically engage with them, and emphasizes a relational framework as key to successful analysis of belonging. It then draws on a variety of Indigenous frames and perspectives to deepen its exploration of relational rather than individualist understandings of what it means to belong.
Harris, A., Cuervo, H., Wyn, J. (2021). Thinking about belonging in youth studies. Springer Nature.
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