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Résumé: S'intéresser à la collapsologie ne revient pas à adhérer aux discours catastrophistes, tant écologiques qu'économiques, ou à tout autre discours post-apocalyptique ou survivaliste. Toutefois, cette approche peut être mobilisée afin de relier différentes thématiques, dont les inégalités sociales, la surconsommation de biens, l'épuisement des ressources, le développement de l'agro-industrie et son impact environnemental, ou le développement de l'alimentation manufacturée et de la pandémie d'obésité. Ces phénomènes contribuent parfois à la baisse de l'espérance de vie dans les sociétés industrielles ou post-industrielles. Ceci ne va pas sans paradoxe, notamment en Occident où les pays sont à la pointe dans de nombreux domaines (agronomique, informatique, militaire, etc.) et, cependant, particulièrement touchés par le développement des maladies non transmissibles, comme l'obésité, le diabète et les maladies cardiovasculaires. An interest in collapsology does not mean adhering to ecological or economic catastrophist discourses or to any other post-apocalyptic or survivalist philosophies. However, this approach can be used to link different themes, including social inequalities, the overconsumption of goods, resource depletion, the development of agro-industry and its environmental impact, the development of manufactured food, and the obesity pandemic. These phenomena sometimes contribute to the decline in life expectancy in industrial or post-industrial societies. This is somewhat paradoxical, especially in western countries which are the most powerful in many fields (agronomy, information technology, military, etc.) and which are nevertheless particularly affected by the development of non-communicable diseases, such as obesity, diabetes and cardiovascular diseases. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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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]