Youth Resilience and Culture
Commonalities and Complexities
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Beschreibung
Until researchers and theorists account for the complex relationship between resilience and culture, explanations of why some individuals prevail in the face of adversity will remain incomplete. This edited volume addresses this crucial issue by bringing together emerging discussions of the ways in which culture shapes resilience, the theory that informs these various studies, and important considerations for researchers as they continue to investigate resilience. Using research from majority and minority world contexts, ‘Youth Resilience and Culture: Commonalities and Complexities’ highlights that non-stereotypical, critical appreciation of the cultural systems in which youth are embedded, and/or affiliate with, is pivotal to understanding why particular resilience processes matter for particular youth in a particular life-world at a particular point in time. In doing so, this book sensitizes readers to the importance of accounting for the influence of cultural contexts on resilience processes, and to the danger of conceptualising and/or operationalising resilience, culture, and their interplay, simplistically or idealistically. In short, the progressive contents of ‘Youth Resilience and Culture: Commonalities and Complexities’ make it an essential read for resilience-focused scholars, students, academics, and researchers, as well as policy makers, practitioners, and humanitarian workers engaged with high-risk populations.
Until researchers and theorists account for the complex relationship between resilience and culture, explanations of why some individuals prevail in the face of adversity will remain incomplete. This edited volume addresses this crucial issue by bringing together emerging discussions of the ways in which culture shapes resilience, the theory that informs these various studies, and important considerations for researchers as they continue to investigate resilience. Using research from majority and minority world contexts, ‘Youth Resilience and Culture: Commonalities and Complexities’ highlights that non-stereotypical, critical appreciation of the cultural systems in which youth are embedded, and/or affiliate with, is pivotal to understanding why particular resilience processes matter for particular youth in a particular life-world at a particular point in time. In doing so, this book sensitizes readers to the importance of accounting for the influence of cultural contexts on resilience processes, and to the danger of conceptualising and/or operationalising resilience, culture, and their interplay, simplistically or idealistically. In short, the progressive contents of ‘Youth Resilience and Culture: Commonalities and Complexities’ make it an essential read for resilience-focused scholars, students, academics, and researchers, as well as policy makers, practitioners, and humanitarian workers engaged with high-risk populations.
Focusses on the influence of culture on resilience Demonstrates the complex influence of culture(s) on positive adjustment across five continents Challenges the hegemony of Western-born resilience theories Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Autor*in
Linda C. Theron
Themen in »Youth Resilience and Culture«
Culture and Resilience of African American Youth Culture and Resilience of Zimbabwean youth Deaf and Youth Resilience in American Communities Hegemony of Western-born Resilience Theories Influence of Culture on Resilience North American Cultures and Resilience Processes Qualitative Eplorations of Culture and Reilience Reciprocity and Resilience Research Relationship between Resilience and Culture Resilience Processes among Black American Adolescents Resilience Processes of Aboriginal Youth Resilience Research Centre (RRC) Resilient Responses among Young Adults in Itagui, Colombia Respect and Resilience Research Responsibility and Resilience Research