Elusive Adulthoods:

Durham, Deborah

doi:10.2307/j.ctv3hvcd1.4

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“…In this article, we adopt a relational view of health transitions, viewing transition to adulthood in general as a fluid, messy process in which identity work is central (Arnett 2004, Durham 2017, Renold and Ringrose 2011 and in which young people develop adult patient identities while also negotiating how these relate to their other evolving identities (e.g. student, adult).…”

Section: Complex Transitions and Identity Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…A dialogical approach to identity offers a way to examine how the discourses and multiple interactions between young people and others during transitions to adulthood constitute the relational context in which young people living with chronic conditions organise their transition experiences and develop a sense of self. This approach also helps us acknowledge the 'elusive' nature of adulthood (Durham 2017), as emerging and 'in the making' through continuing development of identities and ways of being (Renold and Ringrose 2011). Through this dialogical approach we examine the making of 'youth at-risk' (Kelly 2001) into 'governable subjects' (Rose 1999b) who take individual responsibility for their own health and future life.…”

Section: Complex Transitions and Identity Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Transitions to adulthood: self‐governance and disciplining in the making of patient citizens

Renedo

Miles

Marston

2019

Sociology Health & Illness

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Young people develop new behaviours and redefine their identities during health transitions when they move from paediatric to adult healthcare environments. Their identities help to guide their health‐related actions in response to life changes. Young people's health is increasingly recognised as important, yet we lack understanding of how health transitions shape identities and how they relate to other transitions to adulthood. We conducted a longitudinal interview study with young people with sickle cell disease to explore how young people define new identities as they transition to adulthood. We show how ‘disciplining at a distance’ via healthcare self‐management discourses and neoliberal norms governing adolescence play out in the tensions participants encounter when they are crafting new identities. Health transitions involve struggles to negotiate competing demands for self‐discipline. It is crucial to create enabling spaces for young people to protect their health while still developing identities that help them achieve life goals.

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Section: Complex Transitions and Identity Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Complex Transitions and Identity Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Transitions to adulthood: self‐governance and disciplining in the making of patient citizens

Renedo

Miles

Marston

2019

Sociology Health & Illness

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“…By emphasizing young people's transitions to adulthood, scholars risk reproducing an uncritical, modernist narrative in which youths have to walk through different stages of progress towards the normative stable goal of adulthood [12,15]. In light of this, adulthood is culturally constructed as the "unmarked normal" or the "civilized state" of humanity in opposition to "the primitive state of childhood" and the "unruly barbarism of adolescence" [12]. Young people are therefore believed to be 'unfinished', resulting in unequal power and hierarchy relationships, which cause many of the tensions between youths and adults [11,12,14,15,16,57].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Interestingly, the perception of youth as both potential victims of the dangers presented by media technologies and as perpetrators engaging in 'deviant' online behaviors are grounded in the same assumption. Namely that youth lack 'adult' rationality and responsibility and are subsequently 'at risk' when they go online [1,10,11,12]. This assumption has given rise to widespread "technopanics" about young people's media use [2,13].…”

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“…Based on our collective knowledge of the fields of communication sciences and anthropology, we identify and reflect on three common perspectives in the academic literature on youth's online privacy. A first assumption we observed is the unintentional reproduction of the image of young people as 'unfinished beings' [11,12,14,15]. Secondly, there is often a lack of attention given to how youth's experiences are shaped by their exposure to technopanic narratives [e. g., 3,6,28,29].…”

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Reframing Current Debates on Young People's Online Privacy by Taking into Account the Cultural Construction of Youth

Leyn

Wolf

Abeele

et al. 2019

Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Social Media and Society

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In public discussions regarding online privacy, young people are oftentimes portrayed as individuals who put themselves and others at risk with their naive and reckless online behavior. Recent scholarly work, however, debunked the myth that teenagers do not value privacy anymore by uncovering how they manage sensitive information in their everyday life. In this paper we argue that underlying assumptions of this scholarship still hinder our understanding of youth's engagements with social media and privacy. First, researchers tend to reproduce an image of young people as 'unfinished'. Second, studies fail to account for young people's exposure to technopanic narratives. Finally, the scholarship is oftentimes grounded in a liberal idealization of privacy as something inherently desirable for young people. To critically reflect upon these assumptions, we suggest taking into account the cultural construction of youth. Specifically, we argue that youths' experiences as "beings-inthe-present", society's anxieties about a digital future, and power dynamics might be essential elements that mediate young people's engagements with social media, privacy, and society. CCS CONCEPTS • Security and Privacy → Social aspects of security and privacy KEYWORDS Culture, privacy, social media, technopanic, youth

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When parents die: Bereavement, decision-making and achieving adult personhood in rural Togo

Häberlein

2024

cult.psych.

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Death has received considerable attention in the social sciences when it comes to rites of passage, for example, funerals, cremations, vigils, or memorial services. As elders pass away, the generations shift, and former youths become elders themselves. This paper presents the case of my host father, a local notable in northern Togo, who died in 2018 and was honoured by an extensive mourning ritual the following year. Drawing on intense and active participant observation, I show the challenges my host sibling group faced in achieving social adulthood. Through daily decision-making processes, this group of grown sons and daughters shaped, manipulated and reorganised the configuration of rituals, addressing issues of succession, conflicts between animist and Christian rites, and whether to classify cattle gifts as ancestral honours or delayed bridal gifts. Making such decisions at the end of elders’ lives is a crucial process for the rising generation to achieve adult social status.

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Elusive Adulthoods:

Cited by 17 publications

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Transitions to adulthood: self‐governance and disciplining in the making of patient citizens

Transitions to adulthood: self‐governance and disciplining in the making of patient citizens

Reframing Current Debates on Young People's Online Privacy by Taking into Account the Cultural Construction of Youth

When parents die: Bereavement, decision-making and achieving adult personhood in rural Togo

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