Youth in Motion - preview!

We've had some great submissions for the Youth in Motion workshop at UCL on 16th June. We thought we'd share some of the emerging ideas via the blog to whet your appetites in advance of the day itself. Below are just a few of the themes and questions that participants are hoping to explore.

If you'd like to join the discussion in person on the 16th, we have a couple of places still available. (Although please note that we are no longer able to accept any further position papers.) Please email Caitlin at c.o'neill@ucl.ac.uk or James at james.esson.09@ucl.ac.uk if you'd like to register. If you're unable to attend in person but you're keen to connect with the event, please get in touch and share some of your questions or ideas via this blog.

Preview questions

How might disciplinary paradigms of education have overlooked the practical articulation students have within educations institutions? How should we think of the school through the ambiguous engagement/movement of the students? What other socialities and subjectivities may be encouraged by the school that nonetheless feature peripherally in theorizations of education? (Charis Boutieri, King's College London, UK)

How do young people's bodies and corporeality relate to and/or become incorporated by the internet/mobile technologies? How do these technologies facilitate movement and mobility in material spaces? Do these technologies provide spaces of belonging, or do they create a further layer of exclusion for young people to negotiate and resist? (Gary Downing, University of Reading, UK)

What sort of research methods might permit more effective analyses of young people’s movement through urban places, and the kinds of affective atmospheres generated in these movements? (Cameron Duff, Monash University, Australia)

In what ways do public youth organisations serve both youth and the state? How can public youth organisations contribute to our understanding of young people's self-definition and broader definitions of "youth", as well as their participation, exclusion, inequalities and resistance? (Falma Fshazi, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, France)

What should be the transformative role of the university establishment in supporting efforts for access to higher education to immigrant youth who are in precarious immigration situations (asylum seeking or undocumented)? What does silence on this point signify within the larger discourse of inequalities? What ethical issues does political-scholarly activism for youth in precarious immigration situations raise for researchers and scholars? (Felipe Mendez, McGill University, Canada)