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Thinking about Belonging in Youth Studies
This book takes a global perspective to address the concept of belonging in youth studies, interrogating its emergence as a reoccurring theme in the literature and elucidating its benefits and shortcomings. While belonging offers new alignments across previously divergent approaches to youth studies, its pervasiveness in the field has led to criticism that it means both everything and nothing a…
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- 978-3-030-75119-7
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- xiii, 236p.:ill
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- 306.85 Har t
Leisure in Later Life
This book analyses leisure choice as a complex concept, made more complicated in later life than at any other time. The author posits that there are many unanswered questions about the new booming generation of healthy, older people, and this book asks what it is really like to be old at the beginning of the 21st century in the United Kingdom, analysing leisure in older people in th…
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- 978-3-030-71672-1
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- XXIX, 224p.:ill
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- 306.85 Wis l
Single Parents
This edited volume addresses how single mothers and fathers are represented in novels, self-help literature, daily newspapers, film and television, as well as within their own narratives in interviews on social media. With proportions varying between countries, the number of single parents has been increasing steadily since the 1970s in the Western world. Contributions to this volume analyse ho…
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- 978-3-030-71311-9
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- IX, 258p.:ill
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- 306.85 Sin
Close Relations
This book speaks to the meanings and values that inhere in close relations, focusing on ‘family’ and ‘kinship’ but also looking beyond these categories. Multifaceted, diverse and subject to constant debate, close relations are ubiquitous in human lives on embodied as well as symbolic levels. Closely related to processes of power, legibility and recognition, close relations are surrounde…
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- 978-981-16-0792-9
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- vii, 220p.:ill
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- 306.85 Cla
Digital Citizenship in China
This book examines how emerging forms of citizenship are shaped by young people in digital spaces as way of making sense of contemporary Chinese society, forming new identities, and negotiating social and political participation. By focusing on Chinese young adults' everyday online practices, the book offers a unique treatment of the topic of young people and the Chinese Internet that navigates…
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- 978-981-16-5532-6
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- xi, 167p.:ill
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- 306.85 Jun d
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