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Stigma, Health Attitudes and the Embodiment of Youth(ful) Identities: Understandings of Self and Other

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The impact of peer pressure on young people’s health attitudes and behaviour has been explored extensively in academic and popular discourses. However, there has been less discussion of how stereotypes and stigma influence young people’s health attitudes and the ways these relate to bodies and youth(ful) identities. Media and popular discourses frequently stigmatise young people from working-class or underprivileged backgrounds, emphasising deviance, youth subcultures and fear of crime. In contrast, this chapter explores processes of stigmatisation within youth cultures and the role of bodies and place within this.

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  1. Department of Geography, Durham University, UK

    Natalie Beale (research student)

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    Kathrin Hörschelmann (lecturer in human geography) & Rachel Colls (lecturer in human geography) (lecturer in human geography) &  (lecturer in human geography)

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Beale, N. (2010). Stigma, Health Attitudes and the Embodiment of Youth(ful) Identities: Understandings of Self and Other. In: Hörschelmann, K., Colls, R. (eds) Contested Bodies of Childhood and Youth. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230274747_14

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