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Field name	Details
Nuova numerazione	73485
Collocazione	UPS BIBL CENTR 39-C-632
Vecchia numerazione	399233
Autore	THREADGOLD, S.
Titolo	"I reckon my life will be easy, but my kids will be buggered": ambivalence in young people's positive perceptions of individual futures and their visions of environmental collapse. Parte componente di periodico
Descrizione fisica	pp. 17-32
Nota generale	Estratto da: Journal of Youth Studies 2012, 15, 1
Riassunto	This article discusses young people's attitudes towards the future in terms of two distinct risks: on the one hand, their perceptions of achieving their ambitions, on the other, their perceptions of the future of the world, particularly in terms of environmental issues. The data are discussed as a disjuncture between these issues where the positive perceptions of the likelihood of achieving ambitions are rarely linked to their pessimistic visions of societal collapse. This is discussed through the lens of social theories about risk, reflexivity, ambivalence and governmentality. It is argued that the ︣experts in young people's lives � namely parents, teachers, politicians and media � discursively create a hierarchy of risk that legitimises individual choices about managing one's own life trajectory while delegitimising action towards large scale social issues. Despite considerable awareness of coming environmental problems and frustration over inaction, young people tend to prioritise the management of individual issues that works towards the maintenance of a governmentalised subjectivity. When faced with the ambivalences inherent in a risk society, the reflexive quest for order is governmentalised.
Tipo di documento	SAGGIO TEORICO.
Soggetto	RISCHIO.
	FUTURO.
	ATTITUDINI.
	PERCEZIONE.
	AMBIENTE.
	VALUTAZIONE.
Ambito	Sociologico
Titolo correlato	Journal of Youth Studies 2012, 15, 1.
Accesso online	http://ejournals.ebsco.com/Article.asp?ContributionID=26275746
Accesso online	http://web.ebscohost.com/ehost/detail?vid=6&hid=123&sid=1ec404d4-b6e9-48c0-8685-63b930fad05a%40sessionmgr113&bdata=Jmxhbmc9aXQmc2l0ZT1laG9zdC1saXZl#db=psyh&AN=2011-27796-002

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"I reckon my life will be easy, but my kids will be buggered": ambivalence in young people's positive perceptions of individual futures and their visions of environmental collapse.