Third World Gap Year Projects: Youth Transitions and the Mediation of Risk
Third World Gap Year Projects: Youth Transitions and the Mediation of Risk
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第三次世界间隔年项目：青年转型和风险调解
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2008
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N. Ansell
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N. Ansell
近年来，在英国，在中学和大学之间前往第三世界国家的年轻人人数大幅增加，以便作为志愿者参加有组织的间隔年项目。到这些地方旅行通常被认为是“危险的”，并将年轻人带到英国健康和安全立法的保护茧之外。间隔年项目的提供者所发挥的作用之一是调解风险。在分析的基础上，推广文学，访谈组织者的间隔年项目，和焦点小组的返回志愿者，在本文中，我认为，各种战略的风险调解间隔年供应商进行调解，以调和现代化的倾向，在英国社会对风险控制和结构与后现代倾向个性化和不确定性。
In recent years in the UK there has been a great expansion in the number of young people travelling to Third World countries between school and university in order to participate as volunteers on structured gap year projects. Travel to such places is commonly perceived as ‘risky’, and takes young people outside the protective cocoon of UK health and safety legislation. One of the functions played by the providers of gap year projects is to mediate risk. On the basis of analysis of promotional literature, interviews with organisers of gap year projects, and focus groups of returned volunteers, in this paper I argue that the various strategies of risk mediation undertaken by gap year providers serve to reconcile modernising tendencies in UK society toward risk control and structure with postmodern inclinations towards individualisation and uncertainty.