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  • Who participates? Differing perceptions of risk by young people and the impact on strategies for youth participation

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    Pavlidis, A
    Baker, S
    Griffith University Author(s)
    Pavlidis, Adele
    Baker, Sarah L.
    Year published
    2010
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    Conversations with two groups of young people in Queensland were used to explore how they experience risk. The groups placed very different emphases on two types of risk - technological and embodied. The authors argue that this difference is due to each group's position within the risk society: one group, which consisted of young people experiencing homelessness, were 'at-risk', while the other, a youth advisory committee, acted as a buffer between youth at-risk and risk society. These results raise the question as to how such divergences in perception can be taken into account when developing youth participation policy and ...
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    Conversations with two groups of young people in Queensland were used to explore how they experience risk. The groups placed very different emphases on two types of risk - technological and embodied. The authors argue that this difference is due to each group's position within the risk society: one group, which consisted of young people experiencing homelessness, were 'at-risk', while the other, a youth advisory committee, acted as a buffer between youth at-risk and risk society. These results raise the question as to how such divergences in perception can be taken into account when developing youth participation policy and procedure.
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    Journal Title
    Youth Studies Australia
    Volume
    29
    Issue
    1
    Publisher URI
    https://www.youthpolicy.org/journals/youth-studies-australia/
    Copyright Statement
    © 2010 ACYS. The attached file is reproduced here in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher. For information about this journal please refer to the publisher's website.
    Subject
    Human society
    Sociology not elsewhere classified
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/32220
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