1. 'Jeunes à risque': Généalogie d'un langage problématique.
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Caron, Caroline and Soulière, Marguerite
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DRUG abuse , *TEENAGERS , *AT-risk youth , *GOVERNMENTALITY , *RISK-taking behavior in adolescence , *TEENAGERS & adults , *SOCIOLOGICAL research methods , *POSTINDUSTRIAL societies , *SOCIAL history - Abstract
Based on governmentality studies, this article sketches out a genealogy of the 'youth at-risk' category in contemporary youth studies. A convergence of risk society, sites of dissemination for youth research, state priorities in research funding, and institutional structures that frame research practices serve to create a unique historical moment for the emergence of regulatory 'youth at-risk' language. As part of a critical reflexive approach to youth research, this article underscores youth scholars' responsibility to challenge this problematic language and pins down some of the difficulties this project faces in the academy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2013
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