Safe Spaces, Support, Social Capital: A Critical Analysis of Artists Working with Vulnerable Young People in Educational Contexts

This article presents findings from research into how young people growing up in foster care in the UK manage the relationships in their social networks and gain access to social capital. It is a concept that highlights the value of relationships and is relevant to young people in care as they have usually experienced disruptions to their social and family life. Qualitative methods were used and the findings show that despite experiencing disruption to their social networks, the young people demonstrated that they were able to maintain access to their social capital. They achieved this in two ways. Firstly, they preserved their relationships, often through what can be seen as ordinary practices but in the extraordinary context of being in foster care. Secondly, they engaged in creative practices of memorialisation to preserve relationships that had ended or had been significantly impaired due to their experience of separation and movement. The article highlights implications for policy and practice, including the need to recognise the value of young people’s personal possessions. Furthermore, it stresses the need to support them to maintain their relationships across their networks as this facilitates their access to social capital.

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Social capital, homeless young people and the family

Journal of Youth Studies ◽

10.1080/13676261.2012.677812 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 15 (6) ◽

pp. 730-743 ◽

Cited By ~ 29

Author(s):

Justin David Barker

Keyword(s):

Social Capital ◽

Young People ◽

The Family

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Interconnected communities

Policy Quarterly ◽

10.26686/pq.v16i2.6475 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 16 (2) ◽

Author(s):

Atanas Tomovski ◽

Josh Finegan ◽

Simran Rughani

Keyword(s):

Social Capital ◽

Social Networks ◽

Young People ◽

Work Life ◽

Support Networks ◽

Environmental Benefits ◽

Work Life Balance ◽

Life Balance

Younger cohorts want changes in the environments they live in. They want to live in interconnected environments that provide fluidity between work, home and recreational spaces. Interconnected environments are conducive to young people building connections and social networks, creating interconnected communities. These interconnected communities provide flexibility in work–life balance, improve accessibility to amenities, build latent support networks and social capital, and provide environmental benefits that are congruent with compact living.

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“It's Like Mixing Paint”: Songwriting Gender Diversity and Alternative Gender Cultures with Young People as an ‘After-queer’ Methodology

Voices A World Forum for Music Therapy ◽

10.15845/voices.v19i3.2852 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 19 (3) ◽

Author(s):

Elly Scrine

Keyword(s):

Young People ◽

Queer Theory ◽

Critical Analysis ◽

Gender Diversity ◽

Gender And Sexuality ◽

Alternative Gender ◽

Perfect World

This paper conceptualises songwriting as an ‘after-queer’ approach for exploring notions of gender and sexuality with young people. The article draws on songs created by seven groups of young people in music-based workshops which took place in schools with participants aged between 14–17. During these workshops, songwriting was used to explore the participants' imaginings of what gender might look like in their "perfect world". 'After-queer' scholarship is introduced and referred to throughout the paper as it relates to queer theory and research with young people, particularly focusing on discourses of risk and vulnerability that emerge across these fields. The paper highlights the value of creative and arts-based methodologies in queer research, through which expansion and questions of possibility, alternative, and identity can be raised and responded to. 'After queer' is offered as a useful lens for critical analysis, particularly in light of complex questions related to the promotion of "diversity" that emerged through the findings.

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Broken society, anti-social contracts, failing state? Rethinking youth marginality

Youth Marginality in Britain ◽

10.1332/policypress/9781447330523.003.0003 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Peter Squires ◽

Carlie Goldsmith

Keyword(s):

Quality Of Life ◽

Young Adults ◽

Young Adult ◽

Young People ◽

Political Ideology ◽

Critical Analysis ◽

Welfare Policies ◽

Social Contracts ◽

Liberal Approach

Peter Squires and Carlie Goldsmith examine social exclusion of youth and the conservative the ideology of the ‘broken society.’ They address young people’s hardship and marginality through a critical analysis of neo-liberal political ideology. They that young adult ‘quality of life’ has diminished as a result of ‘tough justice’ and punitive welfare policies. They question the neo-liberal approach to young adults with its focus on risk and compliance measures while young people receive sanctions, disciplines and punishments.

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Information Support of Youth Policy as a Factor of Formation of the Social Capital and Political Attitudes of the Young Generation

Journal of Politics and Law ◽

10.5539/jpl.v12n5p88 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 12 (5) ◽

pp. 88

Author(s):

Galina Viktorovna Morozova ◽

Artur Romanovich Gavrilov ◽

Bulat Ildarovich Yakupov

Keyword(s):

Social Capital ◽

Young People ◽

Political Culture ◽

Political Elite ◽

Political Information ◽

Information Support ◽

The Political ◽

Young Generation ◽

Youth Policy ◽

The Social

If we sum up the tasks facing the Russian state in relation to the young generation, then all of them are associated with its harmonious inclusion in the social and political development of the country. At the normative level, the current need is declared for young people to form active citizenship and democratic political culture, which is possible only in a constant and equal dialogue between the authorities and young people. Ensuring the interaction of the younger generation with the political elite presupposes the existence of certain conditions - the creation and effective functioning of the information infrastructure of youth policy, as well as the conduct of an open active information policy. The article describes the results of a study of the political status of students of the capital of Tatarstan - Kazan, in particular, such parameters as youth interest in political information, trust in the sources of this information, and political participation. Together with the data of secondary studies, this made it possible to characterize the youth sector of political communication, identify the existing difficulties in the interaction of the government and youth, in particular, identify some difficulties in receiving and disseminating political information among the youth, which impede the development of a democratic political culture and the accumulation of social capital of the young generation.

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