Sociologising Child and Youth Resilience with Bourdieu: An Australian Perspective

Mu crafts a sociology of resilience through his multi-year research with Australian students, focusing on transformative, reflexive, and power-rejective everyday practices that make social change possible. This book offers an epistemological tool to reapproach resilience and reappropriate Bourdieu for social change, engaging with established scholars and emerging researchers in Australia and beyond.

Format: Hardback
Length: 214 pages
Publication date: 08 August 2022
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

In his comprehensive book, Mu delves into the realm of resilience, crafting a sociology that spans multiple years of research with Australian students. This work goes beyond individual accomplishments in challenging circumstances and explores the transformative, reflexive, and power-rejective everyday practices that pave the way for social change. Positive psychology has made significant strides in understanding child and youth resilience in the face of adversities, thanks to the pioneering work of Emmy Werner and her colleagues. However, many children and adolescents still fall through the cracks of the system, highlighting the need for new frameworks to break the cycle of inequality. By reinterpreting resilience through the lens of Bourdieu's relational and reflexive sociology, the book expands beyond individual adaptation and delves into the sociological dimensions of resilience in addressing structural problems. This book serves as an invaluable resource for school professionals and educational researchers, engaging with the intellectual work of established scholars and nurturing emerging researchers within Australia and beyond. Furthermore, the empirical analyses presented in the volume offer valuable insights for educational practitioners in schools and resilience researchers in universities.

Weight: 566g
Dimension: 234 x 156 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781032111889