The purpose of this article was to reflect on the concepts of adolescence and youth,
summarize models and frameworks developed to conceptualize youth participation, and …

SAGE was founded in 1965 by Sara Miller McCune to support the dissemination of usable
knowledge by publishing innovative and high-quality research and teaching content. Today …

Youth Studies: an introduction is a clear, jargon-free and accessible textbook which will be
invaluable in helping to explain concepts, theories and trends within youth studies. The …

Over the last decade," youth" has become increasingly central to policy, development, media
and public debates and conflicts across the world–whether as an ideological symbol, social …

The category of youth has been a strategically important focus in the development of mobile
communication and media research. This paper reviews the themes and findings of the first …

Agency is a conceptual problem for youth studies. While the term is used in many analyses
of young people's lives, this paper argues that the nature and conceptual meaning of agency …

This article makes a contribution to ongoing debate with youth studies about the frameworks
and concepts that inform research and practice. It offers an analysis of the spatial metaphor …

This paper responds to critiques of the metrocentric nature of contemporary youth studies,
situating both major traditions of youth research within a geographical framework with the …

This article analyses how different forms of involvement in underground punk and/or
alternative scenes develop into specific do-it-yourself (DIY) careers. From a corpus of 214 …

Over the previous seven years the application of a social generation paradigm or 'theory'has
gained increasing currency as a method in analysing young people's relationship with the …