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Young people making a life.(Brief article)(Book review)
Young people making a life
Ani Wierenga
Palgrave Macmillan
2009; UK50.00 [pounds sterling]
ISBN: 9780230549289 (hardcover); 243pp.
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Ani Wierenga is a Future Generation Research Fellow at the Australian Youth Research Centre, University of Melbourne. In Young people making a life, the story of 32 young people in a remote Tasmanian community becomes a metaphor for the story of youth research itself, as it grows in its journey during the author's 12-year longitudinal study. Wierenga, formerly a youth worker, now a sociologist, is sometimes interviewer, sometimes researcher, but never a voyeur, in her journey with these young people as they grow to adulthood. Their stories are rich with meaning, they "speak directly into our understandings of social structure ...
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