Invisible, undervalued and excluded
Practicing working-class girlhood in affective space
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12600136 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Stephanie Skourtes (0000-0002-7524-4814, University of British Columbia, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 19 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 389-402 |
| Publication date | 2015-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Youth Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1367-6261 • E-ISSN: 1469-9680 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/13676261.2015.1076158 |
| OpenAlex | W1703647555 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 33 |
In contemporary culture of Empire and its ‘cult of the self’, to be a young person means to be recognized, and the display of the self is read as a display of value. However, working-class girls who are economically oppressed, marked by a history of racialization, colonization, and stigmatization are assigned no value, thus remaining unrecognized. In this article, I explore the affective economies circulating for female youth who are navigating both marginal social conditions and experiences of long-standing exclusion in urban Canada. This article draws from a two-year long critical and visual ethnography conducted at a drop-in social service center for youth and the adjacent neighborhoods, where I explored the everyday gendered youth culture of a group of Canadian, working-class girls who are marked as ‘a problem’. Here I uncover the role of affect in working-class girls’ attempts to be recognized in various aspects of their everyday life. I also discuss how affective economies operate as the present expression of the girls’ collective histories to reveal the structures in place that produce the abject girl
Aesthetics · Art · Class (philosophy · Epistemology · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Working class · Computer Science · Crime, Deviance, and Social Control · Gender Studies · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Homelessness and Social Issues · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology
Pretty in punk
Urban girls
Race, Place and Globalization
Qualified value
Rethinking the Youth Question
The Cultural Politics of Emotion
Through city students' eyes
Joan Sangster — Girl Trouble
Between ?Girl Power? and ?Reviving Ophelia
Moral Panic Analysis
Joining the Club? Academia and Working-class Femininities Correspondence
The relationship between impulsive verbal aggression and intermittent explosive disorder
The experience of anger and sadness in everyday problems impacts age differences in emotion regulation
Infinitely demanding
Imagined communities
Being Indigenous
Girl Culture, Revenge and Global Capitalism
More Visualising, More Methodologies
Gurl Scenes and Grrrl Zines
Interaction Order and Beyond
"It's like Saying "Coloured
What's anger got to do with it? Towards a post-indignation pedagogy for communities in conflict
Affective Economies
Street Phenomenology
Feeling Beyond Rules
Rave and Straightedge, the Virtual and the Real
Raising the 'Meritocracy
Mostly Roughs and Toughs
Social Representations and the Labeling of Non-Compliant Youths
| Unique citing works | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,63 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2025 (8) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |