TY - JOUR
T1 - 'Reworldings' : exploring perspectives on the future from Danish and Australian youth during COVID-19
AU - Rasmussen, Penille
AU - D'warte, Jacqueline
AU - Gannon, Susanne
AU - Hansen, Helle Rabøl
AU - Jacobs, Rachael
AU - Knage, Frederikke Skaaning
AU - Naidoo, Loshini
AU - Søndergaard, Dorte Marie
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2023 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
PY - 2023
Y1 - 2023
N2 - The COVID-19 pandemic has reshaped life for all in countless ways. For young people, the pandemic accelerated the digitalization of school education and upended relations with peers, parents, and society as a whole. In this paper, we look beyond these immediate effects to explore how pandemic experiences, feelings, and thoughts suggest profound shifts in young people’s perspectives on and orientations towards the future. Our research comprises parallel qualitative research with young people aged 15–19 in Denmark and Australia. Drawing on a posthumanist account of the world as entanglements of multiple human and non-human agencies and inspired by Donna Haraway’s admonition to stay with the trouble of the world, we discuss how species meet as the coronavirus makes kin with the young people and how the young people’s perspectives on the future become with the pandemic. That is, what intimations of worldings and reworldings can be glimpsed as young people shared their changed perspectives on priorities related to the meaning of life and the sustainability of the (more-than-) human condition from the midst of the pandemic.
AB - The COVID-19 pandemic has reshaped life for all in countless ways. For young people, the pandemic accelerated the digitalization of school education and upended relations with peers, parents, and society as a whole. In this paper, we look beyond these immediate effects to explore how pandemic experiences, feelings, and thoughts suggest profound shifts in young people’s perspectives on and orientations towards the future. Our research comprises parallel qualitative research with young people aged 15–19 in Denmark and Australia. Drawing on a posthumanist account of the world as entanglements of multiple human and non-human agencies and inspired by Donna Haraway’s admonition to stay with the trouble of the world, we discuss how species meet as the coronavirus makes kin with the young people and how the young people’s perspectives on the future become with the pandemic. That is, what intimations of worldings and reworldings can be glimpsed as young people shared their changed perspectives on priorities related to the meaning of life and the sustainability of the (more-than-) human condition from the midst of the pandemic.
KW - COVID-19
KW - education
KW - future
KW - corona
KW - youth
UR - https://hdl.handle.net/1959.7/uws:72597
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85158869166&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/13676261.2023.2206951
DO - 10.1080/13676261.2023.2206951
M3 - Article
SN - 1367-6261
VL - 27
SP - 1151
EP - 1168
JO - Journal of Youth Studies
JF - Journal of Youth Studies
IS - 8
ER -