K Young

Biographic Data

ID11745
NAMEK Young
GIVEN NAMESK
FAMILY NAMEYoung
SIGNATUREYOUNG K
AFFILIATIONSBoston College
ORCID0000-0002-3614-4722
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS37
TOTAL CITATIONS54
AUTHOR COUNT37
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1938
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX4

  • Rethinking experiences of vulnerability and marginalisation amongst those affected by problematic drug use: Directions for social (work) research and social change

    Open AccessK Young, Mark Smith et al.ARTICLEEuropean Journal of Social Work2026

    Those affected by problematic drug use are among the most vulnerable and marginalised in society. In Scotland, the city of Dundee is recognised as having the highest rate of drug deaths in Europe. In policy terms, drug misuse is generally understood and responded to through a biopsychosocial lens. Increasingly, the Scottish Government seeks to frame it within a human rights framework. Against this backdrop, it can be difficult to discern or artic…

  • Active Citizens and Passive Learning: A Qualitative Study of Students' Perspectives on Citizenship Education Across England and Wales

    Open AccessE Andreouli, Sandra Obradović et al.ARTICLEYouth & Society2025References: 44

    Across the UK there has been a steady, but rising, concern over young people's political engagement. Citizenship education (CE) is one policy response to this lack of engagement, seeking to mould young people's transition to full citizenship according to prevailing values and ideals of citizenship. In this paper, we examine CE in England and Wales reporting on the findings of twenty focus groups with secondary school students across ten schools. …

  • Possessive pronouns in Welsh: Stylistic variation and the acquisition of sociolinguistic competence

    Open AccessK Young, Mercedes Durham et al.ARTICLELanguage Variation and Change2024References: 4

    This paper examines possessive pronoun forms in Welsh, a feature thought to be undergoing change (Davies, 2016). First, we seek to add to the understanding about how and in which stylistic contexts these forms are used. Second, we examine whether students in Welsh-medium schools with different home language backgrounds show the same sociolinguistic competence. In contrast to what is prescribed in many grammar books, the colloquial form mam fi ‘my…

  • After Misogyny: How the Law Fails Women and What to Do About It

    Open AccessK Young, Katharine G YoungARTICLEThe American Journal of…2024

    Journal Article After Misogyny: How the Law Fails Women and What to Do About It Get access Julie Suk, After Misogyny: How the Law Fails Women and What to Do About It ( University of California Press, 2023) Katharine G Young Katharine G Young Associate Dean of Faculty and Global Programs, Professor of Law and Dean's Distinguished Scholar, Boston College Law School, Newton Centre, Mass., USA [email protected] Search for other works by this author …

  • Synesthetic gestures: Making the Imaginary Perceptible

    K YoungARTICLEThe Senses and Society2021References: 24

    Among the repertoires of vernacular expression available for storytelling are gestural icons, called iconics, and gestural metaphors, called metaphorics in the terminology of David McNeill. Gesture analysts take such co-speech gestures as visual representations of visible phenomena but because they are body movements, all gestures impart tactile-kinesthetic qualities to expressive acts. They are thinking made perceptible outside the body and so d…

  • The idea of a human rights-based economic recovery after Covid-19

    K Young, Katharine G YoungARTICLEInternational Journal of Public…2020

    The COVID-19 pandemic has produced a health and economic crisis of unprecedented scope. As economists and policymakers turn to the task of recovery, protecting human rights remains intrinsically important, both morally and legally. It is also instrumental to the ends of public health and economic resilience. This article argues that the human rights to life, health, education, social security, housing, food, water and sanitation - among the so-ca…

  • Cello gestures: A rejoinder to "Strawberry feel forever: understanding metaphor as sensorimotor dynamics" by Dor Abrahamson

    K YoungARTICLEThe Senses and Society2020References: 3

    Analogies juxtapose different objects to bring forward the similarities between them; they invite comparisons. Unlike metaphors, which take imagery from one realm of experience and apply it to anot

  • The right-remedy gap in economic and social rights adjudication: Holism versus separability

    K Young, Katharine G YoungARTICLEUniversity of Toronto Law Journal2019Cited by: 3References: 34

    If the right-remedy gap is an inevitable feature of constitutional law, it is all the more so for constitutional economic and social rights. Yet such rights – to have access, for example, to health care, education, social security, housing, food, water, sanitation, or other good or service or opportunity deemed fundamental to human freedom and dignity – are not uniform in the remedial gaps that occur. This article introduces the orientations of h…

  • Criterion-referenced and norm-referenced assessments: Compatibility and complementarity

    Beatrice Lok, Carmel McNaught et al.ARTICLEAssessment & Evaluation in Higher…2016

    The tension between criterion-referenced and norm-referenced assessment is examined in the context of curriculum planning and assessment in outcomes-based approaches to higher education. This paper argues the importance of a criterion-referenced assessment approach once an outcomes-based approach has been adopted. It further discusses the implementation of criterion-referenced assessment, considering to what extent the criteria and standards adop…

  • Constituting Economic and Social Rights

    K Young, Katharine G YoungBOOKConstituting Economic and Social…2012

    Food, water, health, housing and education are as fundamental to human freedom and dignity as are privacy, religion or speech. Yet only recently have legal systems began to secure these fundamental individual interests as rights. This book looks at the dynamic processes that "constitute" the legality of economic and social rights. It argues that processes of interpretation, enforcement and contestation each reveal how economic and social interest…

  • Gestures, Intercorporeity, and the Fate of Phenomenology in Folklore

    K YoungARTICLEJournal of American Folklore2011Cited by: 4References: 6

    Culture apprentices the body to its style. Gestures are the visible and kinaesthetic trace of that apprenticeship. They are specific to bodies, families, age grades, ethnic groups, social orders, and historical moments. They are folklore. The gestures I consider here are affiliated with talk. They conjure up in the gesture space in front of the body the iconic and metaphoric objects that talk mentions. In a gesture, Maurice Merleau-Ponty writes, …

  • Gesture in Naples and Gesture in Classical Antiquity (review)

    K Young, Katharine Galloway YoungARTICLEJournal of American Folklore2003

    In the early part of the nineteenth century, Northern Europeans, regarding themselves as nongesturers, clearly held in disregard the elaborate gesturality of Southern Europeans, quintessentially Neapolitans. Andrea de Jorio, Canon of the Cathedral of Naples and an expert on Greek antiquities, noticed that the gestures represented on ancient Greek vases appeared to be the very ones executed with such vigor and panache by his fellow citizens (p. 4)…

  • Gesture in Naples and Gesture in Classical Antiquity

    K YoungARTICLEJournal of American Folklore2003

  • The dream body in somatic psychology: The kinaesthetics of gesture

    K YoungARTICLEGesture2002Cited by: 2

    Gestures have been investigated primarily as pictorial representations intended to communicate information to their perceivers visually. This paper argues that affiliative gestures, the gestures affiliated with words, are neither visual nor communicative. They are kinaesthetic apprehensions directed by gesturers to themselves. Perceivers do glean information from the gestures but this is not their primary intent. Gestural practices in a somatic t…

  • The Memory of the Flesh: The Family Body in Somatic Psychology

    Open AccessK YoungARTICLEBody & Society2002Cited by: 9References: 4

    Family traditions take a somatic turn in a therapeutic practice that focuses on how symbolic bodies are passed down in families. Somatic psychology holds that parents offer children models of how to be in the world, which takes the form of bodily attitudes. The body shapes I imitate and resist at every stage of life arise out of the memory of the past, incarnate memory in the present, and project the memorial body towards its future. I materializ…

  • Gestures and the phenomenology of emotion in narrative

    Open AccessK YoungARTICLESemiotica2000Cited by: 4

    Emotion in narrativeHow are narratives inflected with emotion?Some narrators imbue their stories with emotion effects intended to arouse a response in their recipients (Warhol 1992: 116_120).1In those instances, we would be concerned with the rhetoric of persuasion (Burke 1974a(Burke [1945(Burke ], 1974b(Burke [1950]]) and reader/hearer reception theory (Iser 1972).But some nar ratives appear to be imbued with emotion for their tellers.These are …

  • Presence in the Flesh: The Body in Medicine

    A W Frank, K YoungARTICLEContemporary Sociology A Journal…1998

  • Many Mirrors: Body Image and Social Relations

    K Young, Nicole SaultARTICLEJournal of American Folklore1996

    We've needed a book like Many Mirrors for a long time. In the veritable explosion of new scholarship on the human body, this book stands out in its focus on empirical research. Many Mirrors will move . . . the Anthropology of the Body a giant step forward.--C. H. Browner, University of California at Los AngelesIn every society, people define and change their physical appearance in response to their relationships to others: we add clothes and mask…

  • Inscribed Surfaces: On Bodies on Film

    Phyllis Gorfain, Deborah Kapchan et al.ARTICLEJournal of American Folklore1996

  • Bodylore

    David G Horn, K YoungARTICLEJournal of American Folklore1996

  • Birth as an American Rite of Passage. Robbie E. Davis‐FLOYD

    Open AccessK YoungARTICLEAmerican Ethnologist1995

  • Whose Body? An Introduction to Bodylore

    K YoungARTICLEJournal of American Folklore1994Cited by: 3

  • Visuality and the Category of the Other: The Cannibal Tours of Dean MacCannell and Dennis O'rourke

    Open AccessK YoungARTICLEVisual Anthropology Review1992References: 1

  • Perspectives on Embodiment: The Uses of Narrativity in Ethnographic Writing

    K YoungARTICLEJournal of Narrative and Life…1991

    Take as pivotal in anthropological discourse the invention of the category of the Other. Once invented, the category conjures up another realm, a realm inhabited by the Other and estranged from the realm of the self. Ethnographic writings are then constructed to get access to the Other. At issue, then, are how realms of experience are constellated with respect to each other, how they communicate, and how they coalesce. One name for these realm re…

  • Vampires, Burial, and Death

    K Young, Paul BarberARTICLEJournal of American Folklore1991