Youth, school, and community : participatory institutional ethnographies / Naomi Nichols ; foreword by Dorothy E. Smith.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nichols, Naomi, 1978- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

At-risk youth--Institutional care--Ontario--Toronto.

At-risk youth.

At-risk youth--Institutional care--Québec (Province)--Montréal.

At-risk youth--Institutional care.

Ontario--Toronto.

Québec--Montréal.

Physical Description:

ix, 219 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, [2019]

Summary:

"Unlike other books about youth, this book examines how young people's experiences of inclusion and exclusion are shaped by extended social relations, coordinating thought and conduct across time and space. Working with young people, using a range of participatory institutional ethnographic strategies, this book investigates the social and institutional relations which differentially punctuate our lives. While research began with what young people know and have experienced, this starting place anchors an investigation of public sector institutions and institutional processes that remain implicated in social-historical-economic processes of global capitalism, imperialism, and colonialism. Youth, School, and Community connects the dots between the abstract objectified accounts produced by institutions and enabling institutional action and accounting practices, and the actual material conditions of young people's lives and development, which these accounts obscure. By focusing on specific policies and procedures that produce young people's experiences of racialized inclusion/exclusion, safety/risk make it particularly useful to academics, professionals, and activists who want to ensure that young people experience equitable access to public sector resources and not disproportionate exposure to public sector punishments and punitive interventions."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

1 Experience, Ontology, and Sociologies of Resistance p. 10

Social Research and Ideology p. 13

Beyond Alienation: Ideology and Processes of Domination p. 16

Beginning with Experience p. 18

Conclusion: A Feminist Method of Inquiry p. 23

2 Participatory Institutional Ethnographies of the State p. 25

Project 1 Schools, Safety, and the Urban Neighbourhood p. 26

Project 2 Sampling Youth Development p. 31

Research Participants p. 35

Youth Summer Research Internships p. 46

3 The Neo-Liberal State and the Creation of Race, Class, and Gender p. 64

Racism without Intent p. 65

The Police "Don't Care about Us" p. 68

Differential Policing Practices: Producing Race, Class, and Gender p. 71

Housing, Policing, and the State p. 74

Conclusion: Technologies of Evidence and the Construction of a Post-racial, Post-gendered, Post-class World p. 77

4 Evidential Practices in Education and the Negation of Race p. 80

Comparing Educational Contexts: Toronto and Montreal p. 83

Educational Exclusions and the Evidential Turn in Education p. 85

Teachers: "Most of Them Mean Very Well" p. 91

Police in Schools p. 96

Conclusion: The Affirmation of Race, Class, and Gender Categories in Post-race, Post-class, and Post-gender Times p. 98

5 Risk, Safety, Inclusion, and the Inter-institutional Organization of Educational Interventions p. 100

Like Moves on a Chessboard p. 101

"Special" Education - Assessment, Identification, and Segregation p. 116

"Welcome Schools, " Language Laws, and Intercultural Policies p. 120

Youth "At Risk" p. 136

Negotiating, Coordinating, and Enabling Access to Education p. 145

6 State Surveillance and School Discipline p. 153

Safe Schools Policy Background: Ontario and Quebec p. 155

"Then I Got Suspended": Young People's Experiences of School Discipline in Montreal and Toronto p. 160

School Discipline, Surveillance, and Educational (Under) Achievement p. 168

Institutionally Organized Intersections: Special Education and School Safety p. 175

Intersectional Practices of Surveillance: Education, Child Protection, Policing, and Probation p. 179

My Next Moves p. 192.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781487522599

1487522592

9781487503338

1487503334

OCLC:

1090427005