Risk, resistance and the neoliberal agenda: young people, health and well-being in the UK, Canada and Australia Brown, Sally, Shoveller, Jeannie, Chabot, Cathy and LaMontagne, Anthony D 2013, Risk, resistance and the neoliberal agenda: young people, health and well-being in the UK, Canada and Australia, Health, risk and society, vol. 15, no. 4, pp. 333-346, doi: 10.1080/13698575.2013.796346. Attached Files Name Description MIMEType Size Downloads Title Risk, resistance and the neoliberal agenda: young people, health and well-being in the UK, Canada and Australia Author(s) Brown, Sally Shoveller, Jeannie Chabot, Cathy LaMontagne, Anthony D orcid.org/0000-0002-5811-5906 Journal name Health, risk and society Volume number 15 Issue number 4 Start page 333 End page 346 Total pages 14 Publisher Routledge Place of publication Oxford, Eng. Publication date 2013 ISSN 1369-8575 1469-8331 Keyword(s) Risk Health policy Neoliberal shifts Young people's health Structural disadvantage/social inequities Summary In this article we describe how concepts of risk are both generated by and used to reinforce a neoliberal agenda in relation to the health and well-being of young people. We examine how risk may be used as a tool to advance ideals such as rational choice and individual responsibility, and how this can further disadvantage young people living within the contexts of structural disadvantage (such as geographic areas of long-term unemployment; communities that experience racial discrimination). We also identify the ways in which risk is applied in uneven ways within structurally disadvantaged contexts. To suggest a way forward, we articulate a set of principles and strategies that offer up a means of resisting neoliberal imperatives and suggest how these might play out at the micro-, meso- and macro-levels. To do this, we discuss examples from the UK, Canadian and Australian contexts to illustrate how young people resist being labelled as risky, and how it is possible to engage in health equity-enhancing actions, despite seemingly deterministic forces. The cases we describe reveal some of the vulnerabilities (and hence opportunities) within the seemingly impenetrable world view and powers of neoliberals, and point towards the potential to formulate an agenda of resistance and new directions for young people's health promotion. Language eng DOI 10.1080/13698575.2013.796346 Field of Research 119999 Medical and Health Sciences not elsewhere classified Socio Economic Objective 970111 Expanding Knowledge in the Medical and Health Sciences HERDC Research category C1.1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal Copyright notice ©2013, Taylor & Francis Persistent URL http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30061383 Document type: Journal Article Collection: School of Health and Social Development Related Links Link Description Connect to published version (restricted access) Go to link with your DU access privileges     Unless expressly stated otherwise, the copyright for items in DRO is owned by the author, with all rights reserved. Versions Version Filter Type Thu, 06 Mar 2014, 11:45:23 EST Thu, 13 Mar 2014, 15:31:10 EST Fri, 13 Jun 2014, 20:04:40 EST Tue, 23 Sep 2014, 12:34:01 EST Thu, 11 Dec 2014, 19:56:22 EST Wed, 21 Jan 2015, 10:40:40 EST Wed, 16 Mar 2016, 08:37:32 EST Wed, 17 Aug 2016, 08:32:23 EST Tue, 06 Sep 2016, 23:11:34 EST Filtered Full Citation counts:   Cited 15 times in TR Web of Science Cited 17 times in Scopus Search Google Scholar Access Statistics: 345 Abstract Views, 13 File Downloads  -  Detailed Statistics Created: Thu, 06 Mar 2014, 11:45:23 EST

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