Young and LonelyPub Date : 2020-11-01DOI: 10.2307/j.ctv17vf50t.6
J. Batsleer, James R. Duggan
{"title":"Animate, attune, amplify","authors":"J. Batsleer, James R. Duggan","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv17vf50t.6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv17vf50t.6","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter defines loneliness and explains the approach of the research. The project was committed to investigating loneliness beyond individualising and psychological accounts. Instead there was a commitment to engage with the social conditions of loneliness, such as poverty, inequality and precarity which shape youth experience. Youth work practices and partnership working were crucial to developing safe and productive research relationships with the youth co-researchers throughout the project. Loneliness is something that cuts through and across young people’s lives and so the study of it requires a transdisciplinary dialogue, bringing together insights from diverse fields to understand youth loneliness where lonely young people are not just lonely nor are they merely young. The chapter concludes with an outline of book’s structure.","PeriodicalId":405308,"journal":{"name":"Young and Lonely","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131036826","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Young and LonelyPub Date : 2020-11-01DOI: 10.2307/j.ctv17vf50t.10
J. Batsleer, James R. Duggan
{"title":"Loneliness and Poverty","authors":"J. Batsleer, James R. Duggan","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv17vf50t.10","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv17vf50t.10","url":null,"abstract":"Poverty intensifies loneliness. The impact that lack of money has on the ability to take part in small celebrations and get-togethers that others take for granted intensifies loneliness. The inability to join in and a failure to be able to provide for oneself at a time when young people are meant to be learning to ‘stand on their own two feet’ is accompanied by a strong sense of shame. Poverty is associated with physical isolation in ‘uncared for places’. There can be an association between the shame of poverty and a cycle of mental ill-health and drug use/abuse which intensifies isolation. The concept of ‘social abjection’ is introduced as a means to understand the loneliness associated with poverty.","PeriodicalId":405308,"journal":{"name":"Young and Lonely","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124919144","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Young and LonelyPub Date : 2020-11-01DOI: 10.2307/j.ctv17vf50t.11
J. Batsleer, James R. Duggan
{"title":"Being an Outsider","authors":"J. Batsleer, James R. Duggan","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv17vf50t.11","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv17vf50t.11","url":null,"abstract":"Places that pride themselves on their sense of community and belonging can be very lonely places for those who do not fit in. These issues of inclusion/exclusion are illustrated in accounts of experience of growing up with a sense of being an outsider, including stories of growing up with a disability in a town where it is assumed you will not therefore be able to cope with mainstream schooling; growing up LGBT in an area with strong conservative religious views; being a foreigner in a segregated and low paid form of employment; trying to keep away from low level criminal activity in a neighbourhood where this has become the norm. These themes are explored in relation to segregation; stigma; racism; and the meaning of difference.","PeriodicalId":405308,"journal":{"name":"Young and Lonely","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130465980","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Young and LonelyPub Date : 2020-11-01DOI: 10.2307/j.ctv17vf50t.18
J. Batsleer, James R. Duggan
{"title":"Asking for help and offering connection","authors":"J. Batsleer, James R. Duggan","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv17vf50t.18","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv17vf50t.18","url":null,"abstract":"The complexity of asking for help and giving and receiving it at a time of life when independence is prized above everything is explored. Requests for and offers of help and connection intersect with flows of power where control can masquerade as care. Such masquerades carry the marks of patriarchal control, class-based symbolic violence as well as of individual personalities and life stories. The small acts and everyday connections presented in this chapter are often ingenious and creative forms of mutual support and friendship, subtly undermining expectations about status and control.","PeriodicalId":405308,"journal":{"name":"Young and Lonely","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128922173","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Young and LonelyPub Date : 2020-11-01DOI: 10.2307/j.ctv17vf50t.19
J. Batsleer, James R. Duggan
{"title":"Youth work as method","authors":"J. Batsleer, James R. Duggan","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv17vf50t.19","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv17vf50t.19","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter considers the place of youth work projects, and of the importance of engagement, enjoyment, association and accompaniment in the life of neighbourhoods including those visited in the Loneliness Connects Us research. It highlights the work of the youth projects who were involved in the research study and the impact of the austerity on such projects. It suggests however that the commitment to ‘social action’ as a buzzword for youth work should be considered critically , as should medical models of loneliness which lend themselves to the suggestion that interventions by professionals such as social workers or youth workers are needed in order to fix the problem. Rather youth work is considered as part of a social infrastructure designed to facilitate informal learning, advocacy, mutual support and enlivening.","PeriodicalId":405308,"journal":{"name":"Young and Lonely","volume":"616 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116340783","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Young and LonelyPub Date : 2020-11-01DOI: 10.2307/j.ctv17vf50t.12
J. Batsleer, James R. Duggan
{"title":"The Education System, Aspiration and Loneliness","authors":"J. Batsleer, James R. Duggan","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv17vf50t.12","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv17vf50t.12","url":null,"abstract":"The normalised pressures which the current education system places on young people, into their twenties and beyond, mean that the regular summer reporting on the exam results of particular cohorts of young people are followed by reports of an increasing incidence of mental health problems and suicidality. Beginning with young people’s discussions of aspiration during the research project,this chapter points to the fact that discussions of aspiration, achievement and failure of aspiration in educational research have not engaged with the emotional dynamic created especially for working class students leaving their families through educational mobility nor by the belief that ‘success is individual.’ The subheadings of Instrumentality and Achievement; Individualism; On (Not) Disappointing\u0000 Parents and Unhappiness as Loneliness frame the discussion.","PeriodicalId":405308,"journal":{"name":"Young and Lonely","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115209770","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Young and LonelyPub Date : 2020-11-01DOI: 10.2307/j.ctv17vf50t.7
J. Batsleer, James R. Duggan
{"title":"Finding oneself a loneliness agenda","authors":"J. Batsleer, James R. Duggan","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv17vf50t.7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv17vf50t.7","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter explores the policy, practice and media contexts surrounding the emergence of the youth loneliness agenda. To understand the social conditions of loneliness it is necessary to locate youth loneliness in the neoliberalising policy context, and the intersections between neoliberalism and the individualising tendencies of psychological research and loneliness interventions. Finally, the chapter questions the representation of youth loneliness, especially how loneliness emerges and spreads, through notions of contagion and crisis.","PeriodicalId":405308,"journal":{"name":"Young and Lonely","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127229829","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[PART II Introduction]","authors":"Juan M. Jensen","doi":"10.2307/J.CTV941X68.8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/J.CTV941X68.8","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":405308,"journal":{"name":"Young and Lonely","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130743026","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}