Expanding the youth discourse: everyday precarity through a young South Korean woman’s autoethnography

This study expands the youth discourse in South Korea through an autoethnographic account. The concept of precarity is explored through multifaceted attributes such as subjective feelings, subjectification, and daily practices. Through an examination of feminist critiques, which argue that gender is...

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Main Author: Hyeran Jeong
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Taylor & Francis Group 2024-12-01
Series:International Journal of Adolescence and Youth
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Online Access:https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/10.1080/02673843.2024.2340657
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description This study expands the youth discourse in South Korea through an autoethnographic account. The concept of precarity is explored through multifaceted attributes such as subjective feelings, subjectification, and daily practices. Through an examination of feminist critiques, which argue that gender is another primary aspect of precarity, this study reflects upon gender blindness in existing research and explains the youth’s anxiety based on modern gender relations. It employs the author’s first-person account to describe and analyse the mechanisms of everyday precarity in the labour context and coping strategies as a young woman. The analysis revealed that everyday precarity operates across generations and genders, beyond class struggles, manifesting in individualized coping strategies. This result asserts how female youth, thus far marginalized subjects, offer a new horizon in youth research.
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Expanding the youth discourse: everyday precarity through a young South Korean woman’s autoethnography
International Journal of Adolescence and Youth
Class-centrism
youth research
autoethnography
everyday precarity
South Korea
title Expanding the youth discourse: everyday precarity through a young South Korean woman’s autoethnography
title_full Expanding the youth discourse: everyday precarity through a young South Korean woman’s autoethnography
title_fullStr Expanding the youth discourse: everyday precarity through a young South Korean woman’s autoethnography
title_full_unstemmed Expanding the youth discourse: everyday precarity through a young South Korean woman’s autoethnography
title_short Expanding the youth discourse: everyday precarity through a young South Korean woman’s autoethnography
title_sort expanding the youth discourse everyday precarity through a young south korean woman s autoethnography
topic Class-centrism
youth research
autoethnography
everyday precarity
South Korea
url https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/10.1080/02673843.2024.2340657
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