Resources

Abstract

Young people have access to different resources for the project of making a life. Everything discussed in earlier chapters is pointing towards this one central theme. Across the globe a large body of work clearly demonstrates that young people have different levels of access to some practical resources that help each to make a life, for example education, healthcare, work, and housing. Meanwhile, other research shows that growing up in isolated communities can further limit access to many of these important things (see Chapters 2 and 3). Within this rural study, respondents’ own stories have highlighted significant differences in their exposure to, and familiarity with, geographical, social, and ‘systemic’ worlds (Chapter 4). In turn, these young people have had access to different cultural ways of negotiating the changes that face them (Chapter 5). So, individuals’ current practices of engagement in their work, schooling, and wider communities are a direct result of being differently resourced for these encounters (Chapter 6). When respondents were re-interviewed in 1997 and 1999, the issue of differing access to resources was highlighted in new ways.