Beyond the Shadow of Adults-Youth, Adultism, and Human Rights in the Contemporary Faroe Islands

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ID5933292
AuthorsF Gaini (0000-0002-0432-7057, University of the Faroe Islands, corresponding author)
Year2024
Volume13
Issue2
Pages98
Publication date2024-02-05
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueSocial Sciences (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2076-0760 • E-ISSN: 2076-0760
PublisherMDPI AG (PUBLISHER • IT)
DOI10.3390/socsci13020098
OpenAlexW4391560292
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited15

This article discusses young people's human rights situation in the Faroe Islands today by addressing youth participation issues from a cultural adultism perspective. It argues that the local cultural values and intergenerational relations in the family influence the multilayered and shifting nature of 'Faroese adultism'. My purpose is to explore the ways through which young people are challenging adultism in their everyday life practices: what do they intend to change and what do they wish to sustain in their cultural struggle? This article is mainly based on empirical data from focus group discussions with young participants. The findings reveal that young people from the Faroe Islands-located in the Nordic Atlantic-do not consider adultism to have a negative impact on their wellbeing. This article, relying on theoretical scholarship and ideas from youth studies and island studies, contributes to a more nuanced understanding of human rights in the context of a small (family-oriented) island community in cultural and social transformation

Geography · Human rights · Political science · Psychoanalysis · Shadow (psychology · Community Development and Social Impact · Law · Psychology · Social Policy and Reform Studies · Youth Education and Societal Dynamics

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