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This volume critically examines ’subculture’ in a variety of Australian contexts, exploring the ways in which the terrain of youth cultures and subcultures has changed over the last two decades and considering whether ’subculture’ still works as a viable conceptual framework for studying youth cultu..

First Published in 2014. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

Youth Drinking Cultures offers a comprehensive set of perspectives on adolescent drinking in Europe. In the book, a team of leading researchers provides cross-national comparisons to investigate how drinking behaviour varies, examining factors such as gender, societal context and family socio-econom..

This book focuses on how pervasive social networking technologies contribute to drinking cultures. It brings together international contributions from leading researchers to explore how new technologies are reconfiguring the key themes, traditional interests, practices and concerns of alcohol relate..

Youth Entrepreneurship and Local Development in Central and Eastern Europe..

In Youth Homelessness and Survival Sex, Watson’s analysis of personal narratives reveals how young homeless women are exposed to situations in which survival can be impeded or assisted by playing out specific gender roles. This book shows that homelessness is not a gender-neutral phenomenon...

This title was first published in 2000:  This valuable book provides a detailed examination of the options, values, norms, beliefs, fears and hopes of young people living in two neighbouring, but profoundly different, societies. The future of such a region, Karelia, which includes Russian and Finnis..

This book examines the everyday living conditions experienced and also shaped by young people in Europe. Contributors reflect on the current context of economic, social and political change affecting youth in the critical transition from dependence to independence...

This book examines the everyday living conditions experienced and also shaped by young people in Europe. Contributors reflect on the current context of economic, social and political change affecting youth in the critical transition from dependence to independence...

Few issues attract greater concern and censure than those that surround youth 'gangs'. Comprising a series of essays from leading national and international researchers, this book subjects such claims to rigorous critical scrutiny. It provides a challenging and authoritative account of complex quest..

This book explores the multiple, interrelated social contexts that young people inhabit and navigate, and how educational institutions cope with increasing ethnic, cultural and ideological diversity...

This book explores the multiple, interrelated social contexts that young people inhabit and navigate, and how educational institutions cope with increasing ethnic, cultural and ideological diversity...