Book Chapter
Making time for the tribes: The work of synchronisation in the making of youth collectivities in the age of digital media
Dan Woodman
Youth Collectivities: Cultures and Objects | Routledge | Published : 2021
Abstract
This chapter argues for better attending to the way young people make time for cultural practices with others, something often taken for granted in both subcultural and post-subcultural framings of youth culture. Drawing on multiple rounds of data collection (2008 and 2017) from a mixed-methods study of youth in Australia, I show how the individualising social structure that shapes contemporary lives means that investments and demands in one sphere, such as employment, often do not articulate easily with those in other spheres, such as leisure. The timetables and rhythms of the participant’s lives are constantly varying in ways that are difficult to control and ‘non-standard’ hours of employ..
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