Citizens of the margin: citizenship and youth participation on the Moroccan social web

This paper examines how marginalized youth in Morocco use YouTube to contest hegemonic discourses of state power and institutional practices of social exclusion. The paper analyses a user-generated, YouTube web-series, Tales of Bouzebal, as a performance of marginality and a social critique of state bureaucracies and institutions in the context of post-Arab Spring Morocco. Using a combined method of textual and discourse analyses, the paper argues that the new media practices of producing and consuming user-generated video are best understood as practices of cultural citizenship that contribute to social change through the production of counter-discursive political subjectivities among youth in MENA. The paper posits that the concept of citizenship needs to be expanded to account for citizen participatory media practices that contest the conditions of marginality and inequality sustained by normative definitions of citizenship.     

‘Fuck It,Shit Happens (FISH)’: a social generations approach to understanding young people’s imaginings of life after school in 2016–2017

ABSTRACT

This article uses a social generations approach to explore the lives of young people transitioning to life after schooling. Drawing on ethnographic research in England during the geopolitical uncertainty of 2016–2017, we track the trajectories and narratives of six individuals. The research begins with final year pupils in schools talking about their futures, during and after their A-Level exams. We then follow these individuals on routes to Higher Education and employment, exploring how they are socialised into imaginings of the future and/or struggle to inhabit these futures. A deeply ingrained, modernist, neoliberal reckoning of future time is normalised through experiences of schooling. However, this logic is troubled profoundly in the transition to life after school. Young people’s experiences in an unpredictable present run in stark contrast to the ordered trajectory of future action they have been socialised to expect. Amidst this uncertainty, ambivalence towards shaping the future (‘Fuck It, Shit Happens’) can in some ways feel like the most agentic stance to take. Furlong et al.’s (2011) social generations approach to understanding youth transitions reveals how we must critique the very concept of ‘the future’ if we are to understand the reality of youth transitions in the present.     

青年在网贷中的主体地位——网贷用户调查报告

近年来,网贷引起了人们的高度关注。尽管网贷目前存在着一些问题,但是我们依然可以从其飞速发展中看到其光明的未来。调查显示,网贷用户以80后青年为主,他们利用网贷平台投资理财获取收益,或者通过网贷平台融资借款,解决资金周转、投资创业或者大额消费等资金需求。起步中的网贷有着不可避免的风险,但是,大部分网贷用户是青年,我们不能对此视而不见,共青团创建"青年贷",将有效化解网贷中的风险,最大限度地为创业青年提供资金支持,从而有效地联系和凝聚起网贷中的广大青年。     

Finding ways to the hard to reach—considerations on the content and concept of outreach work

In this article central elements and characteristics of outreach work are discussed. The empirical basis is documentation from five research circles conducted in Sweden, where outreach workers participated and put their work experiences into words. The findings from the circles are weighed against accounts from detached youth workers and it is argued that there are common methodological key components in outreach work that can be identified throughout the different contexts where the method is applied. The three main tasks of outreach work are contact making, initiating social change processes and providing social support to keep the process going. The efforts are performed in quite different surroundings, typically, however, in settings that the outreach worker does not organize or control. This has effects on how relations are built with target groups. Since outreach workers often meet people in vulnerable positions, engagement and respect are stressed as important professional qualities. Linking people to other resources is common and outreach workers need an extensive network of contacts to other organizations. The processes and situations that outreach workers engage in often have an open and unpredictable character. Managing contingency is therefore a central aspect of the work. Finally, a definition of outreach work is suggested.     

A Fair Representation

SUMMARY

Relying on archival documents as well as the author's involvement with Gays and Lesbians of Zimbabwe (GALZ), this article traces the historical development of the gay liberation movement in that country. The author focuses on the GALZ's relationship to the media and to the state in describing community organizing efforts against homophobia. A case example of organizing is provided in order to emphasize the importance of self-empowerment and to discuss the birth of liberationist sentiments in the gay and lesbian community.     

Theorizing postfeminist communities: How gender‐inclusive meetups address gender inequity in high‐tech industries

Through a qualitative analysis of gender‐inclusive meetup groups in the US technology sector, this article offers a theory of postfeminist communities to identify how community organizing can take a postfeminist turn. Gender‐inclusive meetups are public, often free groups or organizations where participants have access to training, mentorship and support. Groups import postfeminist values of choice, empowerment, individualism and entrepreneurship into their community organizing efforts to address workplace gender inequities. Groups employ three strategies to improve the status of women and non‐binary people in the tech industry: (i) organizing a supportive community rooted in professionalism and entrepreneurialism; (ii) offering skills development in a safe environment; and (iii) training participants on how to take individual action against discrimination. While postfeminist communities are able to successfully cultivate supportive groups of participants who organize outside of the workplace, strategies focused on individual‐level changes ultimately do little to disrupt organization‐level gender inequities.     

青年留学立体化关护体系构建

新时期青年留学主要呈现人数扩大化、动机多元化、年龄低龄化、竞争激烈化四个特点。其中留学低龄化的原因主要是望子成龙思想的延续、对国内教育的信任缺失、外界的宣传诱导;竞争激烈化的原因主要是回国人数增多、政策落实不力和留学生的心态问题。针对这些问题,应当由政府、社会、教育机构和留学生本人共同构建立体化的留学关护体系。     

间隔年与中国青年社会化

当前,中国年轻一代在社会化方面遇到很多的困惑,而从西方"舶来"的"间隔年"对于年轻人的生活观纠偏、世界观重塑、价值观内化、人生观培育、生命观感悟以及正能量传递等方面有潜移默化的影响和积极的促进作用,"间隔年"加速了中国青年社会化的进程。     

Using primary and secondary stakeholders to define facility-to-community transition needs for adjudicated youth with disabilities

Stakeholder participation, specifically the primary beneficiary, enhances evaluation results by increasing the overall validity of the evaluative measure. This article provides an example of how the addition of adjudicated youth, the primary beneficiary, as a stakeholder group in a needs assessment provided additional information important for program development of a multi-agency transition program. The needs assessment consisted of five regional community forums comprised of youth correctional facility and community-based service providers (n=127), as secondary stakeholders. A nominal group process was completed defining both supports and barriers to the development of the service delivery model. Additionally, qualitative in-depth interviews were conducted on adjudicated youth (n=33) to describe their perception of the barriers and supports necessary for a successful transition from either a youth correctional facility or off of probation. Both groups identified and ranked the top 12 supports and barriers. Common themes emerged from both groups with substantive differences providing information that helped shape the program service delivery model to accommodate needs of both the adjudicated youth and secondary stakeholder participants. Implications for the development of the service delivery model are described.     

高校共青团员与党员教育一体化系统构建

针对学生不同时期的引导需求和教育特点,优化教育资源合理配置。采用调查法、对比法和模型建立法,将高校青年的教育时期分为共青团员、积极分子、预备党员和正式党员四个阶段进行系统分析。建立了高校共青团员与党员教育一体化系统模型,使高校学生在不同阶段的思想教育更有效,资源更节约,结构更合理。构建一体化系统,使学生思想教育更有效、资源更节约。