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Community Development Journal Advance Access originally published online on October 26, 2005
Community Development Journal 2006 41(1):116-119; doi:10.1093/cdj/bsi106
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Young people, risk and leisure, constructing identities in everyday life

Edited by Wendy Mitchell, Robert Bunton and Eileen Green, Palgrave Macmillan, Hampshire, 2004, ISBN 1 4039 0116 3

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It is argued that contemporary living is increasingly characterized by risk, which has considerable implications for persons' identities and everyday lives. This provides the starting point for this publication. The editors, in their comprehensive introductory overview, acknowledge that risk is central to perspectives on children and young people in contemporary society and that it informs key interventions designed to govern populations of young people. As much of the focus is on young persons' engagements with their communities in terms of their use of space and their leisure opportunities, there is much in this text to interest academics, policy-makers or practitioners who are more concerned with community development issues than with the specifics of youth policy/practice.

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Elizabeth Kiely

Department of Applied Social Studies, University College Cork, Ireland

Address for correspondence: e.kiely@ucc.ie


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