Youth at Risk: Processes of individualisation and responsibilisation in the risk society
Youth at Risk: Processes of individualisation and responsibilisation in the risk society
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面临风险的青年:风险社会中的个体化和责任化过程
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10.1080/01596300120039731
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2001
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P. Kelly
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In the liberal democracies at the start of the new millennium the so called ‘crisis of youth’ (at-risk) is a key marker in debates about youth among intellectuals, social commentators, market researchers, politicians, bureaucrats, religious groups, (self-appointed) moral guardians, and experts in various domains of expertise (Eckersley, 1988, 1992, 1995). This paper will argue that the truth of youth at-risk rehearses, in part, the historical truths of youth as delinquent, deviant and disadvantaged (Swadener & Lubeck, 1995). However, a ‘dangerous’ (Foucault, 1983) aspect of the truth of youth at-risk is that, potentially, every behaviour, every practice, every group of young people can be constructed in terms of risk (Tait, 1995). In this paper I will argue for the possibilities of a productive convergence between aspects of theories of re exive modernisation (Beck et al., 1994) and governmentality (Foucault, 1991). The points of contact between these seemingly disparate literatures can enable us to understand the contemporary ‘conditions of possibility’ that enable youth at-risk discourses to function as powerful truths (Henriques et al., 1984). I will demonstrate that this convergence enables youth at-risk to be examined at two, interconnected levels. In the rst instance ‘risk’ will be understood as constituting a metanarrative in an age of ‘manufactured uncertainty’ (Giddens, 1994). Secondly, the identi cation of risk factors and populations at-risk will be understood as techniques mobilised in diverse attempts to ‘make up’ rational, choice making, autonomous, responsible citizens within (neo)liberal projects of government (Rose, 1996a). In this sense it can be argued that the discourses of youth at-risk seek to individualise the risks to the self that are generated in the institutionally structured risk environments of the ‘risk society’ (Beck, 1992). Moreover, these processes of individualisation also visit new forms of responsibility on young people and their families to prudently manage individual ‘re exive biographical projects’ (Giddens, 1991) in increasingly uncertain settings. In this paper I want to argue for a ‘politics of risk’ that would problematise these processes of individualisation and responsibilisation (Burchell, 1996). Such a politics would also problematise the roles played by institutionalised expertise in generating
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10.4135/9781446280539
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1994
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S. Lash;J. Urry
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S. Lash;J. Urry
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