Rys Farthing
Biographic Data
| ID | 4267263 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rys Farthing |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rys |
| FAMILY NAME | Farthing |
| SIGNATURE | FARTHING R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Oxford Policy Management |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6150-4259 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 75 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Online Privacy, Young People, and Datafication
Children and young people's online privacy is increasingly challenged by the datafication of the digital world, and this is an increasingly important area of policy concern. Understanding what young people understand online privacy to be, and what they want done to protect it, is key to creating effective and rights-realizing policy responses. This article explores young people's perceptions across four countries and finds they have nuanced under…
“It Sets Boundaries Making Your Life Personal and More Comfortable”
Children and young people are prolific digital users, making up a third of the world’s online users [1] and engaging with the digital world in different and distinct ways. However, their unique understandings and perspectives are often not considered in debates and discussions around privacy and security [2] . This article outlines a youth-centric notion of digital privacy and guiding principles around privacy developed by young people from Antig…
The Precarious Generation
This book draws on a wealth of evidence including young people’s own stories, to document how they are now faring in increasingly unequal societies like America, Britain, Australia, France and Spain. It points to systematic generational inequality as those born since 1980 become the first generation to have a lower standard of living than previous generations. While governments and experts typically explain this by referring to globalization, new…
What's Wrong with Being Poor? The Problems of Poverty, as Young People Describe them
This article explores how young people living in low‐income neighbourhoods problematise their own lives, using data generated as part of a participatory policy project with five groups of young people, aged 11–21. Three common problems were identified; housing, education and crime, as well as one common silence around their own agency. This silence is perhaps substituted by a focus on collective agency and politics, suggesting that perhaps young …
Research Ethics Committees and Participatory Action Research With Young People
Participatory action research (PAR) is a methodological approach that seeks to maximize the participation of people whose lives it researches. It is underpinned by an ethical concern to research "with" people, rather than "on" people. However, this ethical approach to research is often, paradoxically, problematized by universities' research ethics committees (RECs). This article explores one site of tension between PAR and RECs-the requirement fo…
Writing in a role for structure
Young people, it is often argued, are more individualised and more free of older, class constraints than ever before. This has led some thinkers to debate the (positive) possibilities of ‘choice biographies’ and self-making among the young, alongside the (more sinister) possibilities of ‘epistemological fallacies’ blinding them to the limits of these self-making capacities. This article interrogates the idea of ‘epistemological fallacies’ for fiv…
Participatory politics
Low-income young people's problematic relationship with individualised policy in England
There is much debate within youth studies regarding whether or not, or to what extent, young people subjectively experience individualised life-pathways. This article suggests that alongside these debates, it might be fruitful to also explore if young people are being institutionally individualised ‘from above’. Using the current UK Government's child poverty policy as a case study, it explores the extent to which this policy individualises low-i…
The politics of youthful antipolitics
Young people's relationship with contemporary politics is complex and often problematized. They are often chastised as the apolitical harbingers of an incipient ‘crisis of democracy’ while simultaneously heralded as the authors of sophisticated new forms of politics, most notably within electronic realms. Previous literature examining young people's political participation falls into either extreme of this binary; either a disengaged paradigm – w…
A new tool for equality? Evaluating the impact of human rights charters for young people
Human rights are one of the most powerful ideas of our time and have the capacity to profoundly reshape our relationship with young people. This article explores the capacity of human rights charters — already implemented in the state of Victoria and in the Australian Capital Territory, and proposed for the rest of Australia — as a tool for critical youth work. It provides an accessible outline of their functions and capacities, and gives example…
The politics of youthful antipolitics
Young people's relationship with contemporary politics is complex and often problematized. They are often chastised as the apolitical harbingers of an incipient ‘crisis of democracy’ while simultaneously heralded as the authors of sophisticated new forms of politics, most notably within electronic realms. Previous literature examining young people's political participation falls into either extreme of this binary; either a disengaged paradigm – w…
Research Ethics Committees and Participatory Action Research With Young People
Participatory action research (PAR) is a methodological approach that seeks to maximize the participation of people whose lives it researches. It is underpinned by an ethical concern to research "with" people, rather than "on" people. However, this ethical approach to research is often, paradoxically, problematized by universities' research ethics committees (RECs). This article explores one site of tension between PAR and RECs-the requirement fo…
Low-income young people's problematic relationship with individualised policy in England
There is much debate within youth studies regarding whether or not, or to what extent, young people subjectively experience individualised life-pathways. This article suggests that alongside these debates, it might be fruitful to also explore if young people are being institutionally individualised ‘from above’. Using the current UK Government's child poverty policy as a case study, it explores the extent to which this policy individualises low-i…
Writing in a role for structure
Young people, it is often argued, are more individualised and more free of older, class constraints than ever before. This has led some thinkers to debate the (positive) possibilities of ‘choice biographies’ and self-making among the young, alongside the (more sinister) possibilities of ‘epistemological fallacies’ blinding them to the limits of these self-making capacities. This article interrogates the idea of ‘epistemological fallacies’ for fiv…
Online Privacy, Young People, and Datafication
Children and young people's online privacy is increasingly challenged by the datafication of the digital world, and this is an increasingly important area of policy concern. Understanding what young people understand online privacy to be, and what they want done to protect it, is key to creating effective and rights-realizing policy responses. This article explores young people's perceptions across four countries and finds they have nuanced under…
The politics of youthful antipolitics
Young people's relationship with contemporary politics is complex and often problematized. They are often chastised as the apolitical harbingers of an incipient ‘crisis of democracy’ while simultaneously heralded as the authors of sophisticated new forms of politics, most notably within electronic realms. Previous literature examining young people's political participation falls into either extreme of this binary; either a disengaged paradigm – w…
A new tool for equality? Evaluating the impact of human rights charters for young people
Human rights are one of the most powerful ideas of our time and have the capacity to profoundly reshape our relationship with young people. This article explores the capacity of human rights charters — already implemented in the state of Victoria and in the Australian Capital Territory, and proposed for the rest of Australia — as a tool for critical youth work. It provides an accessible outline of their functions and capacities, and gives example…
Participatory politics
Low-income young people's problematic relationship with individualised policy in England
There is much debate within youth studies regarding whether or not, or to what extent, young people subjectively experience individualised life-pathways. This article suggests that alongside these debates, it might be fruitful to also explore if young people are being institutionally individualised ‘from above’. Using the current UK Government's child poverty policy as a case study, it explores the extent to which this policy individualises low-i…
What's Wrong with Being Poor? The Problems of Poverty, as Young People Describe them
This article explores how young people living in low‐income neighbourhoods problematise their own lives, using data generated as part of a participatory policy project with five groups of young people, aged 11–21. Three common problems were identified; housing, education and crime, as well as one common silence around their own agency. This silence is perhaps substituted by a focus on collective agency and politics, suggesting that perhaps young …
Research Ethics Committees and Participatory Action Research With Young People
Participatory action research (PAR) is a methodological approach that seeks to maximize the participation of people whose lives it researches. It is underpinned by an ethical concern to research "with" people, rather than "on" people. However, this ethical approach to research is often, paradoxically, problematized by universities' research ethics committees (RECs). This article explores one site of tension between PAR and RECs-the requirement fo…
Writing in a role for structure
Young people, it is often argued, are more individualised and more free of older, class constraints than ever before. This has led some thinkers to debate the (positive) possibilities of ‘choice biographies’ and self-making among the young, alongside the (more sinister) possibilities of ‘epistemological fallacies’ blinding them to the limits of these self-making capacities. This article interrogates the idea of ‘epistemological fallacies’ for fiv…
The Precarious Generation
This book draws on a wealth of evidence including young people’s own stories, to document how they are now faring in increasingly unequal societies like America, Britain, Australia, France and Spain. It points to systematic generational inequality as those born since 1980 become the first generation to have a lower standard of living than previous generations. While governments and experts typically explain this by referring to globalization, new…
“It Sets Boundaries Making Your Life Personal and More Comfortable”
Children and young people are prolific digital users, making up a third of the world’s online users [1] and engaging with the digital world in different and distinct ways. However, their unique understandings and perspectives are often not considered in debates and discussions around privacy and security [2] . This article outlines a youth-centric notion of digital privacy and guiding principles around privacy developed by young people from Antig…
Online Privacy, Young People, and Datafication
Children and young people's online privacy is increasingly challenged by the datafication of the digital world, and this is an increasingly important area of policy concern. Understanding what young people understand online privacy to be, and what they want done to protect it, is key to creating effective and rights-realizing policy responses. This article explores young people's perceptions across four countries and finds they have nuanced under…
Political science (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Law (8 works) · Law (6 works) · Politics (6 works) · Youth Education and Societal Dynamics (5 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Children's Rights and Participation (3 works)