'Reworldings' : exploring perspectives on the future from Danish and Australian youth during COVID-19

Penille Rasmussen, Jacqueline D'warte, Susanne Gannon, Helle Rabøl Hansen, Rachael Jacobs, Frederikke Skaaning Knage, Loshini Naidoo, Dorte Marie Søndergaard

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Abstract

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.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to) 1151-1168
Number of pages18
JournalJournal of Youth Studies
Volume27
Issue number8
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2023

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Keywords

  • COVID-19
  • education
  • future
  • corona
  • youth

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