Overview

This book examines how young people's experiences of inclusion and exclusion are shaped by extended social relations, coordinating thought and conduct across time and space. Working with young people and using a range of participatory institutional ethnographic strategies, Naomi Nichols investigates the social and institutional relations which differentially punctuate the lives of youth. While the research begins with what young people know and have experienced, this starting place anchors a deeper investigation of the public sector institutions and institutional processes that remain implicated in social-historical-economic processes of global capitalism, imperialism, and colonialism. Youth, School, and Community connects the dots between, on the one hand, the abstract objectified accounts produced by institutions and enabling institutional action and accounting practices, and, on the other hand, the actual material conditions of young people's lives and development, which these accounts obscure. The focus on specific policies and procedures that produce young people's experiences of racialized inclusion/exclusion and safety/risk make this book particularly useful to academics, professionals, and activists who want to ensure that young people experience equitable access to public sector resources and not disproportionate exposure to public sector punishments and punitive interventions.

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Author:   Naomi Nichols
Publisher:   University of Toronto Press
Imprint:   University of Toronto Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.40cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.350kg
ISBN:  

9781487522599

ISBN 10:   1487522592
Pages:   224
Publication Date:   28 October 2019
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Foreword by Dorothy E. Smith Introduction: The Institutional and Policy Contexts That Shape Young People’s Lives  Outline of the Book  1. Experience, Ontology, and Sociologies of Resistance Social Research and Ideology  Beyond Alienation: Ideology and Processes of Domination  Beginning with Experience  Conclusion: A Feminist Method of Inquiry  2. Participatory Institutional Ethnographies of the State Project 1: Schools, Safety, and the Urban Neighbourhood  Project 2: Sampling Youth Development  Research Participants  Methods Analysis Youth Summer Research Internships  3. The Neoliberal State and the Creation of Race, Class, and Gender Racism without Intent  The Police “Don’t Care About Us”  Differential Policing Practices Housing, Policing, and the State  Conclusion: Technologies of Evidence and the Construction of a Post-Racial, Post-Gendered, Post-Class World  4. Evidential Practices in Education and the Negation of Race Comparing Educational Contexts: Toronto and Montreal  Educational Exclusions and the Evidential Turn in Education  Teachers: “Most of Them Mean Very Well”  Conclusion: The Affirmation of Race, Class, and Gender Categories in Post-race, Post-class, and Post-gender Times  5. Risk, Safety, Inclusion, and the Inter-Institutional Organization of Educational Interventions Like Moves on a Chessboard  “Special” Education – Assessment, Identification, and Segregation  “Welcome Schools,” Language Laws, and Inter-Cultural Policies  Youth “At Risk”  Negotiating, Coordinating, and Enabling Access to Education  Conclusion  6. State Surveillance and School Discipline Safe Schools Policy Background: Ontario and Quebec  “Then I Got Suspended:” Young People’s Experiences of School Discipline in Montreal and Toronto  School Discipline, Surveillance, and Educational (Under) Achievement  Institutionally Organized Intersections: Special Education and School Safety  Intersectional Practices of Surveillance: Education, Child Protection, Policing, and Probation  Conclusion  My Next Moves  References Index

Reviews

""The book's discussions of the youth's experiences through different systems, including education, child protection, and justice, are quite illuminating."" --Henry Parada, School of Social Work, Ryerson University "" Youth, School, and Community is an incredibly well-researched, well-written, informative, and compassionate book that does justice to the difficult conditions facing so many racialized, impoverished, and excluded young people in Canada. Naomi Nichols' commitment and passion for the young people she works with resonates throughout each page."" --Erin Dej, Department of Criminology, Wilfrid Laurier University ""True to the discipline of institutional ethnography, Naomi Nichols foregrounds and prioritizes people's lived experiences.""--Megan Welsh, School of Public Affairs, San Diego State University

"""The book's discussions of the youth's experiences through different systems, including education, child protection, and justice, are quite illuminating.""--Henry Parada, School of Social Work, Ryerson University ""Youth, School, and Community is an incredibly well-researched, well-written, informative, and compassionate book that does justice to the difficult conditions facing so many racialized, impoverished, and excluded young people in Canada. Naomi Nichols' commitment and passion for the young people she works with resonates throughout each page.""--Erin Dej, Department of Criminology, Wilfrid Laurier University ""True to the discipline of institutional ethnography, Naomi Nichols foregrounds and prioritizes people's lived experiences.""--Megan Welsh, School of Public Affairs, San Diego State University"

True to the discipline of institutional ethnography, Naomi Nichols foregrounds and prioritizes people's lived experiences. - Megan Welsh, School of Public Affairs, San Diego State University Youth, School, and Community is an incredibly well-researched, well-written, informative, and compassionate book that does justice to the difficult conditions facing so many racialized, impoverished, and excluded young people in Canada. Naomi Nichols' commitment and passion for the young people she works with resonates throughout each page. - Erin Dej, Department of Criminology, Wilfrid Laurier University The book's discussions of the youth's experiences through different systems, including education, child protection, and justice, are quite illuminating. - Henry Parada, School of Social Work, Ryerson University

Author Information

Naomi Nichols is an assistant professor in the Faculty of Education at McGill University. Nichols’ primary research focus is youth equity. She has published extensively on structural and policy drivers of inequality, poverty, and homelessness. Her secondary research focus is on processes of mobilizing diverse forms of knowledge to influence equitable social and policy change. Her central objective is to generate and mobilize an evidence base, which will drive processes of practice, policy and institutional change

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