The Passions of Youth

青年的激情，这是继为AHRC支持的专着进行的研究，男孩，打算展示“普通”工人阶级青年男子在十几岁的创造潜力，作为对工人阶级青年男子的流行假设的替代方案，这种假设往往忽视普通和日常生活，专注于特殊，耸人听闻和消极的。这项建议的重点是“参与者”，即那些积极追随特定休闲兴趣的人，目的是加强和验证他们的选择，并向公众传达他们对休闲的热情。青年的激情庆祝的技能和经验，工人阶级的年轻人往往发展时，他们参加特定的休闲活动，在这种情况下，足球，高速公路和音乐。该项目通过曼彻斯特和索尔福德的三个团体提供：曼彻斯特的FC United，贝尔维Aces（Speedway）和索尔福德青年中心，并使用各种创造性的方法和这些共享的休闲激情的媒介，使十几岁的工人阶级年轻人和1940年代至1970年代之间的青少年的年长工人阶级男性探索不断变化的青年体验。年轻的工人阶级男性将有能力塑造自己的休闲经历，以及对年龄和工人阶级男性气质的不同解释。青年的激情不仅仅是关于活动本身，在这种情况下，足球，音乐和高速公路赛车;它为参与者提供了反思的机会，并更加意识到这些活动所使用的广泛技能，从社交互动和协作到自给自足和恢复力。由年轻人自己选择的一系列创造性活动将帮助他们获得新的技能和信心，将他们的休闲追求纳入更广泛的历史和社区背景。这些活动将通过赋予个人权力和主人翁感来建立知识和信心，帮助他们传达其特殊休闲热情的个人意义，并与周围环境之外的其他人分享、学习和反思。参与的年轻人将发展一系列个人和可转移的技能，在创作他们项目的创意和社会方面积累经验，创建新的档案和收藏，阐述自己的想法，并展示如何利用历史来“做一些积极的事情”。2014年和2015年曼彻斯特历史和曼彻斯特历史论坛的参与将为该项目的创造性成果提供大量观众。将鼓励当地社区为这些年轻人的专业知识感到自豪，将提高公众对他们潜力的认识，并挑战对其行为的流行定型观念。青年的激情是基于合作伙伴关系和曼彻斯特城市大学，社区组织和那些在整个大曼彻斯特创意专业工作的人之间的可持续，创造性的参与，这将使年轻人能够向彼此和公众展示和展示他们独特的休闲热情。该提案的根本目的是传达人文研究的潜力，以激发新的和创新的方法来处理工人阶级年轻人生活的各个方面，这些方面通常被公众和更广泛的政治辩论所忽视和看不到。

The Passions of Youth, which follows on from research conducted for an AHRC supported monograph, Being Boys, intends to showcase the creative potential of 'ordinary' working-class young men in their teens as an alternative to popular assumptions made about working-class young men, which tend to ignore the ordinary and everyday and focus on the exceptional, sensational and negative. This proposal focuses on the 'joiners', those who have actively followed particular leisure interests, with the aim of strengthening and validating their choices and communicating their enthusiasm for them to a public audience. The Passions of Youth celebrates the skills and experiences that working-class young men often develop when they participate in particular leisure activities, in this case football, speedway and music. The project is delivered through three groups in Manchester and Salford: FC United of Manchester, Belle Vue Aces (Speedway) and Salford Youth Hub, and uses a variety of creative approaches and the medium of these shared leisure passions to enable working-class young men in their teens and older working-class men who were teenagers between the 1940s and 1970s to explore changing experiences of youth. The young working-class men will be empowered to shape their own narratives of their leisure experiences and alternative interpretations of age and working-class masculinity. The Passions of Youth is more than about the activity itself, in this case, football, music and speedway racing; it offers participants opportunities to reflect on and become more self-aware of the wide range of skills these activities utilise, from social interaction and collaboration to self-sufficiency and resilience. A range of creative activities, chosen by the young men themselves, will help them to acquire new skills and the confidence to put their leisure pursuit into a broader historical and community context. The activities will build up knowledge and confidence by giving individuals a sense of empowerment and ownership to help them convey the personal meanings of their particular leisure enthusiasm and share, learn and reflect on it with others outside their immediate environment. The young men who participate will develop a range personal and transferable skills, becoming experienced in authoring the creative and social aspects of their projects, creating new archives and collections, articulating their own ideas and showing how history can be used to 'do something positive'. The involvement of Manchester Histories and the Manchester Histories Festivals in 2014 and 2015 will provide large audiences for the project's creative outcomes. Local communities will be encouraged to take pride in the expertise of these young men, public awareness of their potential will be raised and popular stereotypes of their behaviour will be challenged. The Passions of Youth is based on collaborative partnerships and sustainable, creative engagements between Manchester Metropolitan University, community organisations and those working in the creative professions across Greater Manchester, which will enable the young men to present and showcase their particular leisure enthusiasms to each other and to the public. The proposal's underlying aim is to communicate the potential of humanities research to stimulate fresh and innovative approaches to aspects of working-class young men's lives which are usually overlooked and unseen by the public and in broader political debates.