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Dear All Please see below an reminder for the call for papers for a special edition of the journal YOUNG (Nordic Journal of Youth Research) - 'Reconstituting Race in Youth Studies'. Deadline for submission of papers is 30st April 2015 Best wishes Malcolm James Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies University of Sussex YOUNG(Nordic Journal of Youth Research) Special Edition Open Call for Papers Reconstituting Race in Youth Studies The relationship between youth and race is undergoing significant social change. Many urban centres are becoming more ethnically diverse and youthful. Youth culture has been digitally globalised and new forms of marginalisation and racialisation have arisen. Despite this, in the last fifteen years there has been relatively little empirical work conducted in youth studies on how race and youth are being reconstituted. While some cognate areas of research such as education studies and cultural studies have maintained a focus on race and ethnicity, in youth studies more widely race has been comparatively absent. Where considerations of race or ethnicity have featured, youth studies has tended to focus on (im)migration, super-diversity and understandings of identities that essentialise and flatten the ways in which race and racism intertwines into young people’s lives. Building a bridge back to studies from 1990s and 2000s (in particular work on new ethnicities, urban multiculture, young adulthood and structural disadvantage), this special issue seeks to update theoretical, empirical and methodological understandings of race in relation to youth. It aims to reconstitute race in youth studies and in so doing demonstrate how, and in what ways, race remains a salient and necessary dimension of social analysis. Aims The aims of this special edition are four-fold: 1. To address the relation between increased ethnic diversity, racialisation and youth Recent studies have noted the increase in ethnic diversity in many urban areas, and the particular registering of this diversity among the young (CoDE 2013; ONS 2001;Vertovec 2006). These contemporary demographics are significantly different from those of the 1980s and 1990s when prominent studies on the relation between ethnic diversity, racialisation and youth culture were conducted (Back 1994; Bennett 1999; Gilroy 1987; Jones 1988; Nayak 2003). This transforming relationship between race and youth therefore no longer fully corresponds to prior frameworks. It merits renewed exploration and theorisation. 2. To address new structures of racial marginalisation and their intersection with class, gender and sexuality Alongside the ethnic reconfiguration of young lives, new structures of marginality are in play. We are witnessing ‘new hierarchies of belonging’, and ‘new racisms’ (Back et al. 2012), where ethnic minorities from long term settled communities and new migrants are positioned within a ‘racial reordering’ and are differentially ‘included’. Integral to this differentiated process of racialisation and marginalisation is the intersection of gender, class and sexuality which enable the appropriation and reproduction of racial signifiers (Kulz 2014; Skeggs 2004). Post-subcultural studies, very little attention has been paid to these debates in youth studies (Carrington and Wilson 2004). Studies have tended to convey a ‘post-race’ sociality (Böse 2003), rather than engaging with how young lives are being racially reordered in relation to other vectors of power and marginalisation. 3. To address global youth culture and attendant negotiations of race Alongside these demographic and structural changes, youth culture has globalised, and along with it the forms of racial symbolism that young people use to make sense of their lives. In the last fifteen years, racial signifiers of youth culture have slipped their moorings. Previous studies that addressed the exchange of cultural symbols between white and black youth did so in a time before baggy jeans, hooded tops, break beats and urban vernaculars had become mainstream and globally commercialised (Back, 1994; Hewitt, 1986; Jones, 1988). Alongside increased ethnic diversity and new forms of marginalisation, these shifts demand revised approaches to youth and race in global and local contexts. 4. To explore the relation between digital and virtual communications, race and youth Finally, the sites at which these negotiations take place have shifted. Whereas previous studies focused on the analogue (sound systems and LP records) and physical (the built environment) dimensions of youth culture (Back 1994; Gilroy 1987), the proliferation of digital technologies and virtual communication has shifted the times and spaces in which youth and race are constituted and communicated (Murthy 2008; Odin 1997). While this has been addressed at a general level (Madianou and Miller 2013), in relation to gender (Ringrose et al. 2012), and in relation to the racialisation of social media (Sharma 2013) the implications for digital and virtual communications on race and youth have yet to be fully explored. Indicative topics include, but are not limited to, the following themes: § New racisms and racialisation; § Everyday racisms and youth transitions to adulthood; § Negotiations, resistances and youth politics; § Digital and virtual cultures; § Creative arts and music scenes; § Performativity; § New migrations; § Intersectionality and the re-ordering of social hierarchies; § Convivialities and dialogues; § Mixing, mixedness and syncretism; § Diasporic and global youth cultures; Scope The special issue will cover a broad range of themes and empirical, methodological and theoretical contributions. The articles will represent research projects that have incorporated a variety of methodological approaches, including ethnographic, visual and sonic methods. The issue will incorporate articles that collectively have an international scope. Some of the articles could also adopt a comparative approach across different countries or cities within a country. Overall the papers will work together as a means to pull out the role of particular contextual, cultural, social, economic and political factors in shaping people’s experiences and negotiations of race and its intersection with youth, gender, class and sexuality. The special edition will contain five articles of 5000-8000 words with a separate 3-5,000 word introduction written by the editors. Submission Manuscripts should be submitted in electronic form online at http:/journalpro.fi/journals/young Start the procedure by clicking the REGISTER button. We only accept articles (in English) that have not been published elsewhere and that have been anonymised. References in both the text and end notes should follow Harvard style whereby references should be cited in the text as (author, date: page) and an alphabetical references section follows the text. Deadline for papers The deadline for submissions for this special edition is 30st April 2015 Guest editors The Guest Editors would be Bethan Harries, Sumi Hollingworth and Malcolm James. Responsible journal editor: Katrine Fangen Bethan Harries is a post-doctoral researcher in the ESRC Centre on Dynamics of Ethnicity and is an associate editor for the journal, Migration Ethnicity Race Online. Her research focuses on the livedexperience of racism and ethnicity and engages with representations of geographical patterns of inequalitiesand the social, cultural and historical conditions in which these are produced.She has contributed to a book on citizenship and written a number of policy-oriented reports on race and inequality. Most recently she has published a paper in Sociology entitled ‘We need to talk about race’. Sumi Hollingworth is a senior research fellow at the Weeks Centre for Social and Policy Research, London South Bank University. She is a sociologist of youth and education and is interested in social class, race, and gender inequalities in young people’s education and work transitions. She is co-author of Urban Youth and Schooling (OU Press, 2010) and has published widely in peer reviewed journals across sociology, youth studies, education and geography. She has research interests in the white middle classes and privilege and has published on this topic, including in the Journal of Youth Studies. Her doctoral research is about social mixing among youth in London schools and she has recently won the British Sociological Association SAGE Prize 2012 for Excellence and Innovation for her paper in Sociological Research Online on the topic. Sumi has recently co-guest edited a Special Issue of Sociological Research Online on the English Riots (Allen et al. 2013). Malcolm James is a lecturer in media and cultural studies at the University of Sussex. He combines long-term, highly participatory research methods and youth work to explore urban multiculture. Malcolm recently completed a PhD at London School of Economics. His interests in race, multiculture and youth are evident in numerous publications, and the work he has conducted with The Guardian, Open Democracy, The Runnymede Trust, Community Development Foundation, Baring Foundation and Autonomous University of the Nicaraguan Caribbean Coast. Journal editor Katrine Fangenis professor in sociology at the University of Oslo. She has written many books and articles on youth, right-wing extremism, racism, migration, and participant observation and extended case methods. During recent years, her main focus has been on young migrant’s experiences of exclusion and inclusion in Europe (the EUMARGINS project); on identity navigation, political involvement and citizenship among Norwegian Somalis; and more recently, nationalism and national identity in Norway (The NATION-project, funded by the Norwegian research council). -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This Email list is maintained by the BSA Race & Ethnicity Study Group. Visit the BSA website for further information about the group: http://www.britsoc.co.uk/specialisms/RaceandEthnicitySG.htm -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- *** Please DO NOT REPLY to this message - unless it is for circulation to ALL list subscribers *** To reply to the sender of this message, use ONLY their email address, NOT the main list address. 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