Young people making it work : continuity and change in rural places / Hernán Cuervo and Johanna Wyn.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cuervo, Hernán, 1970- author.

Wyn, Johanna, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rural youth--Australia--Victoria--Longitudinal studies.

Rural youth.

Rural youth--Social aspects--Australia--Victoria.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (144 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Carlton, Victoria, Australia : Melbourne University Press, 2012.

Summary:

Young People Making it Work examines a generation's lives in rural Australia over the last two decades. Against a backdrop of dramatic social, economic and environmental change, the book tells the story of how a generation of young people have strived to remain connected to the people and places that matter to them. It transcends the assumption that rural places are one of deficit and disadvantage to focus on the ways in which powerful narratives of belonging are conceptualised. Now aged in their late thirties, these are participants in the Youth Research Centre's Life Patterns longitudinal study who left school in the early 1990s. They are members of generation X, and like their peers in urban places, they have used education to achieve their goals. Their stories reveal the powerful influence of both family and place on the decisions they have made since leaving secondary school. Cuervo and Wyn draw on contemporary theory from sociology, cultural geography and youth studies to provide new insights about youth transitions and young adulthood that are relevant not only to the rural context but to all young people.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Changing rural landscapes

Thinking about young people

Constructing lives

Using education

Belonging, family and place

Working the land

Conclusion

References

Index.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780522860986

0522860982

OCLC:

1104330704