Young People, Risk and Leisure Constructing Identities in Everyday Life [Hardcover]

Social theorists have claimed that modern life is increasingly risky and uncertain and is profoundly effecting experiences of everyday-life and our sense of self. Drawing upon empirical and theoretical work of young people's risk-taking and leisure, this book examines such claims in detail. Indeed, young people interviewed tell their own stories of balancing the pleasures and anxieties of such everyday risks as drug-taking, prostitution, gang-life, aggressive driving, drinking and sex.Introduction: Young People, Risk and Leisure: An Overview; W.Mitchell , R.Bunton & E.Green PART ONE: DANGER, UNCERTAINTY AND PLEASURE: THE MANAGEMENT OF EVERYDAY RISKS Pleasure, Aggression and Fear: The Driving Experiences of Young Sydneysiders; D.Lupton Living in my Street: Young People's Perceptions of Health and Social Risk; K.Gillen , A.Guy & M.Banim Risky Identities: Young Women, Street Prostitution and 'Doing Motherhood'; E.Green The Labour Market Inclusion and Exclusion of Young People in Scottish Rural Labour Markets; F.Cartmel PART TWO: SPACE, PLACE AND LEISURE From Policy to Place: Theoretical Explorations of Gender-Leisure Relations in Everyday Life; C.Aitchison Youth, Leisure, Travel and Fear of Crime: An Australian Study; J.Tulloch Streetwise or Safe: Girls Negotiating Time and Space; T.Seabrook & E.Green Sites of Contention: Young People, Community and Leisure Space; A.Foreman PART THREE: LEISURE PURSUITS AND GENDERED IDENTITY Risk, Gender and Youthful Bodies; R.Bunton , P.Crawshaw & E.Green Risk, Motherhood and Children's Play Spaces: The Importance of Young Mothers' Experiences and Risk Management Strategies; W.Mitchell Risking It? Young Mothers' Experiences of Motherhood and Leisure; R.Watson The 'Logic of Practice' in the Risky Community: The Potential of the Work of Pierre Bourdieu for Theorising Young Men's Risk Taking; P.Crawshaw Every Good Boy Deserves Football; S.Pratt & E.BurnCARA AITCHISON is Reader in Leisure Policy and Cultural Theory at tl1