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Celebrity, Aspiration and Contemporary Youth uses the lens of
celebrity to explore how young people think about their futures
under austerity. Based on an interdisciplinary study, the book
offers fresh insights into contemporary youth aspirations and
inequalities. It helps us to understand young people's transitions
into adulthood at a time of socio-economic 'crisis'. Drawing on
original data, the authors examine what it means for young people
to be forming their aspirations within the context of 'austere
meritocracy'. The book addresses three central questions: What
kinds of futures do young people desire and imagine for themselves?
What is required of young people in the process of achieving these
futures? And how are inequalities embedded and reproduced within
these? Using young people's 'celebrity talk' to explore their
aspirations, the authors challenge stereotypes of young people as a
fame-hungry, get-rich-quick generation. Instead, they show how
young people engage critically with celebrity and its discourses.
Key chapters focus on how young people talk about youth, work,
authenticity, success, happiness, money and fame in relation to
their own lives and those of celebrities. Each of these chapters
contains a case study of an international celebrity, including,
Beyonce, Will Smith, Bill Gates, Prince Harry and Kim Kardashian.
The authors conclude with possibilities for social change. They
show that celebrity offers an important way of working with young
people to critically explore what futures are possible and for
whom.
Sexuality is a complex and multifaceted domain - encompassing
bodily, contextual and subjective experiences that resist ready
categorisation. To claim the sexual as a viable research object
therefore raises a number of important methodological questions:
what is it possible to know about experiences, practices and
perceptions of sex and sexualities? What approaches might help or
hinder our efforts to probe such experiences? This collection
explores the creative, personal and contextual parameters involved
in researching sexuality, cutting across disciplinary boundaries
and drawing on case studies from a variety of countries and
contexts. Combining a wide range of expertise, its contributors
address such key areas as pornography, sex work, intersectionality
and LGBT perspectives. The contributors also share their own
experiences of researching sexuality within contrasting
disciplines, as well as interrogating how the sexual identities of
researchers themselves can relate to, and inform, their work. The
result is a unique and diverse collection that combines practical
insights on field work with novel theoretical reflections.
What do we mean by social class in the 21st century? University of
Brighton sociologists Laura Harvey and Sarah Leaney and
award-winning comics creator Danny Noble present an utterly unique,
illustrated journey through the history, sociology and lived
experience of class. What can class tell us about gentrification,
precarious work, the role of elites in society, or access to
education? How have thinkers explored class in the past, and how
does it affect us today? How does class inform activism and change?
Class: A Graphic Guide challenges simplistic and stigmatising ideas
about working-class people, discusses colonialist roots of class
systems, and looks at how class intersects with race, sexuality,
gender, disability and age. From the publishers of the bestselling
Queer: A Graphic History, this is a vibrant, enjoyable introduction
for students, community workers, activists and anyone who wants to
understand how class functions in their own lives.
Sexuality is a complex and multifaceted domain - encompassing
bodily, contextual and subjective experiences that resist ready
categorisation. To claim the sexual as a viable research object
therefore raises a number of important methodological questions:
what is it possible to know about experiences, practices and
perceptions of sex and sexualities? What approaches might help or
hinder our efforts to probe such experiences? This collection
explores the creative, personal and contextual parameters involved
in researching sexuality, cutting across disciplinary boundaries
and drawing on case studies from a variety of countries and
contexts. Combining a wide range of expertise, its contributors
address such key areas as pornography, sex work, intersectionality
and LGBT perspectives. The contributors also share their own
experiences of researching sexuality within contrasting
disciplines, as well as interrogating how the sexual identities of
researchers themselves can relate to, and inform, their work. The
result is a unique and diverse collection that combines practical
insights on field work with novel theoretical reflections.
Celebrity, Aspiration and Contemporary Youth uses the lens of
celebrity to explore how young people think about their futures
under austerity. Based on an interdisciplinary study, the book
offers fresh insights into contemporary youth aspirations and
inequalities. It helps us to understand young people's transitions
into adulthood at a time of socio-economic 'crisis'. Drawing on
original data, the authors examine what it means for young people
to be forming their aspirations within the context of 'austere
meritocracy'. The book addresses three central questions: What
kinds of futures do young people desire and imagine for themselves?
What is required of young people in the process of achieving these
futures? And how are inequalities embedded and reproduced within
these? Using young people's 'celebrity talk' to explore their
aspirations, the authors challenge stereotypes of young people as a
fame-hungry, get-rich-quick generation. Instead, they show how
young people engage critically with celebrity and its discourses.
Key chapters focus on how young people talk about youth, work,
authenticity, success, happiness, money and fame in relation to
their own lives and those of celebrities. Each of these chapters
contains a case study of an international celebrity, including,
Beyonce, Will Smith, Bill Gates, Prince Harry and Kim Kardashian.
The authors conclude with possibilities for social change. They
show that celebrity offers an important way of working with young
people to critically explore what futures are possible and for
whom.
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