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Lifeworlds: Knowledges, Politics, Histories
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Individually Ourselves
Personhood, Ethics, and Everyday Life in School
Sarah Winkler-Reid
176 pages, bibliog., index
ISBN 978-1-80539-101-2 $120.00/£89.00 / Hb / Not Yet Published (November 2023)
eISBN 978-1-80539-102-9 eBook Not Yet Published
Reviews
“This is an excellent and original book exploring personhood, friendship and social identity in the context of an English secondary school. It makes an important contribution to the literature focusing on ethnographic accounts of schooling, and particularly those focusing on friendship, intimacy and peer relations as part of the wider project of socialization during youth.” • Patrick Alexander, Oxford Brookes University
Description
Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in a London high school, Individually Ourselves demonstrates how young people elaborate notions of personhood through their friendships, and pervasive peer ethics, shaped in and through relations of power and inequality. By examining the interplay between individuality and group dynamics during such a formative time of life, the book addresses how our everyday interactions help create the person we become.
Sarah Winkler-Reid is a Lecturer in Social Anthropology at Newcastle University. Her work has been published in journals such as Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Anthropology and Education Quarterly and The Sociological Review.