‘È un’opzione che ho valutato da diverso tempo’

Abstract

This contribution discusses the nuances of vulnerability that emerge from the relationship with the territory of secondary school students in a rural area of Sardinia. The article confronts the most updated definitions of vulnerability with current debates on youth, transitions to work and transitions to adulthood scholarship. Part of a wider project on the PTCO (still called in the narratives of the students with the old name of ‘alternance’), it deconstructs dimensions of vulnerability offering a glimpse on the difficulties that it entails in the specific case of a territory with a strong vocation for agriculture and viniculture, where traditional models keep their centrality in socialization processes. In discussing the empirical material, we go in depth into three students’ narratives.