Phil Mizen
Biographic Data
| ID | 3673626 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Phil Mizen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Phil |
| FAMILY NAME | Mizen |
| SIGNATURE | MIZEN P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Aston University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Agents of transition? Young workers experiences of using private employment agencies in three Midlands cities
Little attention has been given to young workers’ uses of private employment agencies as part of their job search and this paper seeks to rectify this omission. It does so by presenting a critique of recent interventions into the sociological debate about young people’s agency, especially as this applies to the transition from education to employment. By drawing upon recent realist sociology, the argument is developed that recent debate presents …
Bringing the street back in: Considering strategy, contingency and relative good fortune in street children's access to paid work in Accra
A sociology of street children has emerged defined by its rejection of the dominant narratives of child welfare organisations that identify the street as the root cause of children's immiseration and improper socialisation. In its place, sociological analysis has undermined the value of conceptualising street children as a coherent group on the street and in a parallel move has looked to conceptually reposition street children away from assumptio…
The Madness that is the World: Young Activists' Emotional Reasoning and their Participation in a Local Occupy Movement
The focus of this paper is young people's participation in the Occupy protest movement that emerged in the early autumn of 2011. Its concern is with the emotional dimensions of this and in particular the significance of emotions to the reasoning of young people who came to commit significant time and energy to the movement. Its starting point is the critique of emotions as narrowly subjective, whereby the passions that events like Occupy arouse a…
A Talent for Living: Exploring Ghana’s ‘New’ Urban Childhood
This paper considers the lives of children living in a large informal settlement in central Accra, Ghana. Its contention is that children remain largely absent from the renewal of interest in slums and that where they do feature it is largely as objects of risk and vulnerability. Such an exclusive focus, it is argued, risks effacing the ways in which children are capable of actively confronting the terrible constraints posed by slum environments …
Unofficial truths and everyday insights: Understanding voice in visual research with the children of Accra's urban poor 1
This article draws upon the use of photography to research the lives of children living in Accra, Ghana. Its aim is to consider method in visual research, and to reflect upon those modes of explanation and understanding that any consideration of method must require. It suggests a role for photography as a 'vector', as something capable of connecting our knowledge and understanding of the everyday with the everyday experiences and reality of other…
A little ‘light work’? Children's images of their labour
Photographs of labouring children are common, but their capacity to provide unique sources of evidence of the working lives of children remains neglected. Studies of children's work and labour tend to relegate the value of still photographic images to a place on the front cover of books or perhaps to the occasional in‐text illustration. As this paper argues, the potential of still photography does not stop here. By drawing on a qualitative resear…
The Changing State of Youth
During the course of the last quarter of the Twentieth-century, we witnessed a dramatic reversal in the fortunes of young people. From being a key beneficiary of the post-war political commitment to inclusion and concession, youth became re-constituted as a much more costly 'state' to be in. This important new text takes as its basic premise the idea that age is a key site of division and explores the key elements of the process by which young pe…
The Best Days of your Life? Youth, Policy and Blair's New Labour
Since the election of New Labour in 1997, young people's relationship to work and to the labour market has been the subject of intense scrutiny and policy activity. By equipping young workers with the qualifications and skills they are held to need in the knowledge economy, the government hopes to reconcile its quest for economic progress with the commitment to social justice for young people. However, as this article argues, the importance inves…
Work-Welfare'and the Regulation of the Poor: The Pessimism of Post-Structuralism
Through a concern with disciplinary power, post-structuralists have recently turned their attention to the discursive force of welfare in constituting the poor as docile and subservient populations. Far from representing a new and fruitful mode of radical analysis, it is argued that the idealism of the post-structuralist position produces a rigid determinism. Using the recent example of 'work-welfare' in Britain, the pessimism of this position is…
In and Against the Training State
The article insists youth responses to state training must be grounded within an analysis of class relations, and a recognition of their clear-eyed awareness of the futility not only of their training, but also the work they will eventually enter. In this sense and in opposition to cultural explanations youth's resistance to training constitutes part of working class struggle and must be understood as historically constituted 'in and against' the…
The Best Days of your Life? Youth, Policy and Blair's New Labour
Since the election of New Labour in 1997, young people's relationship to work and to the labour market has been the subject of intense scrutiny and policy activity. By equipping young workers with the qualifications and skills they are held to need in the knowledge economy, the government hopes to reconcile its quest for economic progress with the commitment to social justice for young people. However, as this article argues, the importance inves…
The Madness that is the World: Young Activists' Emotional Reasoning and their Participation in a Local Occupy Movement
The focus of this paper is young people's participation in the Occupy protest movement that emerged in the early autumn of 2011. Its concern is with the emotional dimensions of this and in particular the significance of emotions to the reasoning of young people who came to commit significant time and energy to the movement. Its starting point is the critique of emotions as narrowly subjective, whereby the passions that events like Occupy arouse a…
In and Against the Training State
The article insists youth responses to state training must be grounded within an analysis of class relations, and a recognition of their clear-eyed awareness of the futility not only of their training, but also the work they will eventually enter. In this sense and in opposition to cultural explanations youth's resistance to training constitutes part of working class struggle and must be understood as historically constituted 'in and against' the…
Bringing the street back in: Considering strategy, contingency and relative good fortune in street children's access to paid work in Accra
A sociology of street children has emerged defined by its rejection of the dominant narratives of child welfare organisations that identify the street as the root cause of children's immiseration and improper socialisation. In its place, sociological analysis has undermined the value of conceptualising street children as a coherent group on the street and in a parallel move has looked to conceptually reposition street children away from assumptio…
In and Against the Training State
The article insists youth responses to state training must be grounded within an analysis of class relations, and a recognition of their clear-eyed awareness of the futility not only of their training, but also the work they will eventually enter. In this sense and in opposition to cultural explanations youth's resistance to training constitutes part of working class struggle and must be understood as historically constituted 'in and against' the…
Work-Welfare'and the Regulation of the Poor: The Pessimism of Post-Structuralism
Through a concern with disciplinary power, post-structuralists have recently turned their attention to the discursive force of welfare in constituting the poor as docile and subservient populations. Far from representing a new and fruitful mode of radical analysis, it is argued that the idealism of the post-structuralist position produces a rigid determinism. Using the recent example of 'work-welfare' in Britain, the pessimism of this position is…
The Changing State of Youth
During the course of the last quarter of the Twentieth-century, we witnessed a dramatic reversal in the fortunes of young people. From being a key beneficiary of the post-war political commitment to inclusion and concession, youth became re-constituted as a much more costly 'state' to be in. This important new text takes as its basic premise the idea that age is a key site of division and explores the key elements of the process by which young pe…
The Best Days of your Life? Youth, Policy and Blair's New Labour
Since the election of New Labour in 1997, young people's relationship to work and to the labour market has been the subject of intense scrutiny and policy activity. By equipping young workers with the qualifications and skills they are held to need in the knowledge economy, the government hopes to reconcile its quest for economic progress with the commitment to social justice for young people. However, as this article argues, the importance inves…
A little ‘light work’? Children's images of their labour
Photographs of labouring children are common, but their capacity to provide unique sources of evidence of the working lives of children remains neglected. Studies of children's work and labour tend to relegate the value of still photographic images to a place on the front cover of books or perhaps to the occasional in‐text illustration. As this paper argues, the potential of still photography does not stop here. By drawing on a qualitative resear…
Unofficial truths and everyday insights: Understanding voice in visual research with the children of Accra's urban poor 1
This article draws upon the use of photography to research the lives of children living in Accra, Ghana. Its aim is to consider method in visual research, and to reflect upon those modes of explanation and understanding that any consideration of method must require. It suggests a role for photography as a 'vector', as something capable of connecting our knowledge and understanding of the everyday with the everyday experiences and reality of other…
A Talent for Living: Exploring Ghana’s ‘New’ Urban Childhood
This paper considers the lives of children living in a large informal settlement in central Accra, Ghana. Its contention is that children remain largely absent from the renewal of interest in slums and that where they do feature it is largely as objects of risk and vulnerability. Such an exclusive focus, it is argued, risks effacing the ways in which children are capable of actively confronting the terrible constraints posed by slum environments …
The Madness that is the World: Young Activists' Emotional Reasoning and their Participation in a Local Occupy Movement
The focus of this paper is young people's participation in the Occupy protest movement that emerged in the early autumn of 2011. Its concern is with the emotional dimensions of this and in particular the significance of emotions to the reasoning of young people who came to commit significant time and energy to the movement. Its starting point is the critique of emotions as narrowly subjective, whereby the passions that events like Occupy arouse a…
Bringing the street back in: Considering strategy, contingency and relative good fortune in street children's access to paid work in Accra
A sociology of street children has emerged defined by its rejection of the dominant narratives of child welfare organisations that identify the street as the root cause of children's immiseration and improper socialisation. In its place, sociological analysis has undermined the value of conceptualising street children as a coherent group on the street and in a parallel move has looked to conceptually reposition street children away from assumptio…
Agents of transition? Young workers experiences of using private employment agencies in three Midlands cities
Little attention has been given to young workers’ uses of private employment agencies as part of their job search and this paper seeks to rectify this omission. It does so by presenting a critique of recent interventions into the sociological debate about young people’s agency, especially as this applies to the transition from education to employment. By drawing upon recent realist sociology, the argument is developed that recent debate presents …
Sociology (10 works) · Law (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Politics (5 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Social science (4 works) · Youth Education and Societal Dynamics (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Public relations (3 works)