Breath : allegory, knowledge practices, youth at-risk
Contribuinte(s) |
Majoribanks, T. Barraket, J. Chang, J-S. Dawson, A. Guillemin, M. Henry-Waring, M. Kenyon, A. Kokanovic, R. Lewis, J. Lusher, D. Nolan, D. Pyett, P. Robins, R. Warr, D. Wyn, J. |
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Data(s) |
01/01/2008
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Resumo |
Youth and risk are artefacts of expertise, constructed at the intersection of a wide range of knowledges about Youth and so-called Youth issues: an intersection marked by institutionalised, scientific representations of education, family, the life course, risk, and so on. In this paper I suggest that the messiness of human experiences and existence requires knowledge practices in the social sciences that can rethink what counts as truth. These interests – which are grounded in the knowledge practices that frame the work being undertaken in a large scale, qualitative investigation of the cultural drivers shaping the alcohol practices of 14 to 24 year old Australian’s - will be addressed through a discussion of the ways in which Tim Winton’s (2008) new novel Breath can be read as an allegorical tale about the terror of being ordinary: and of the teenage years as being a time in a life in which the fear of being ordinary compels Winton’s key characters to seek out, sometimes stumble upon, and embrace that which promises to make their’s a life less ordinary. In these recollections risk is something that breathes energy and purpose into lifeworlds that are dominated by the institutionalised ordinariness of family, school, and work. |
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Idioma(s) |
eng |
Publicador |
University of Melbourne |
Relação |
http://dro.deakin.edu.au/eserv/DU:30039920/kelly-breathallegory-2008.pdf http://www.tasa.org.au/uploads/2011/05/Kelly-Peter-Session-74-PDF.pdf |
Direitos |
2008, TASA |
Palavras-Chave | #knowledge practices #youth at risk #governmentalisation #allegory #Breath |
Tipo |
Conference Paper |