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The purpose of the present article is to outline and illustrate an analytical approach that accentuates the biographically complex processes inhering within early school leaving transitions. The organizing device of 'structural option' (Stones, 2001) is introduced, which brings into focus the role and interplay of types of 'structures' (in a structurationist sense) in the decision-making processes underlying school exit. 'Structural option' combines two important dimensions in influencing young people's choices: cognitive/emotional and relational/interactional structures. This study shows that disengagement from school is more than a straightforward reading that might suggest lack of positive disposition towards education, but rather is born out of powerful interactions across these two main structural dimensions. As an analytical construct, structural options alert us to the importance of analyzing young people's disengagements from mainstream school in terms of social relationships, power, and emotions. While the article is based on empirical findings from an Irish context, the intention is that its scope extends more broadly to qualitative data analysis of school exit transitions within other contextual settings. The empirical focus derives from the interview narratives with fourteen participants attending a second chance educational initiative in Ireland, known as the Youthreach programme. While most of the young people occupy the status of 'early school leaver', closer inspection of their structural options shows that their pathways to early school exit and school disengagement (for those who completed) comprise quite differing structural combinations. As researchers, appreciation of such combinations can help us understand the justifications young people use in their decision-making.

Face City examines Bangkok through cinematic "close-ups" and meditative states, conjuring a new, nonorganic city body. The human face is a relatively immobile receptive surface for incoming sensations rather than outgoing action. Facialized, the body is understood as a stable sensory-motor apparatus rather than an assemblage of organs for action. In Thailand, Theravada Buddhist meditation practice has taught practitioners to still their bodies and minds to reach states of attentiveness to sensory-motor chains of stimulation and reaction. The cinematic close-up and meditative attentiveness facializes objects and space. The facialization of the city is staged here in a Vietnam War-era hotel in the heart of Bangkok. The Vietnam War era in Thailand introduced American mass cinema culture and new building types along with thousands of soldiers on rest and recreation. In this new transnational space, Face City became possible, one that intersects America and Thailand as states of mind.

AbstractStudies of farm families have largely neglected the position of farm offspring who, through necessity or choice, live their lives away from the farm. This article explores how Irish farming offspring who will not or are highly unlikely to be farm successors frame their relationship with the farm, as well as their attitude to and role in the succession process and the continuity of the farm within the family. Particularly, the concern is to know how attachment to/detachment from the farm and home life are shaped and the implications for how they construct their identities. The article is based on a qualitative narrative study of 30 young adults from farm backgrounds attending university. It is argued that the 'non‐successors' in this cohort have a deep attachment to the farm as an enduring place in their lives. This has key implications for the desire to retain the farm within the family. The article demonstrates that while there is acceptance of enduring gendered cultural scripts surrounding succession, non‐successors demonstrate their attachments in key terms, namely through a collective and secure sense of ownership; a sense of responsibility in maintaining the intergenerational legacy and continuity; and the articulation of the farm as a repository of memories.

"Mit diesem Beitrag wollen die Autoren über Ergebnisse ihrer Forschung informieren, die sich mit sozialer Zugehörigkeit und Identität junger Muslime befasst, die im Westen Irlands leben. Teil dieser Arbeit war die Konzeption einer Jugend-zentrierten, partizipativen Forschungsmethodik, eines Blogs, um zu untersuchen, was Jugendliche sagen und tun, wenn sie gebeten werden, über sich und ihre Beziehungen zu sprechen, und dies mit nur minimaler Präsenz der Forschenden. Die Teilnehmenden hatten ein 'unbeschriebenes virtuelles Gemälde' vor sich, und es lag an ihnen, was dort besprochen wurde. Insgesamt beteiligten sich 21 jugendliche Muslime - teilweise eng befreundete, teilweise miteinander bekannte Schüler/ innen einer Schule in einer westirischen Stadt - über fünf Monate an einem geschlossenen Blog. Das Blog bot interessante Ausschnitte muslimischer Identifikation und zeigte, welche Wahlen Jugendliche trafen, um sich selbst anderen zu präsentieren. Auch wurden online subtile Inklusions- und Exklusionsmechanismen sichtbar, die auf die Offline-Welten verwiesen, in denen die Jugendlichen leben. Das Blog ermöglichte, 'doing friendship' mittels Bildern, Symbolen und Statements nachzuvollziehen, die Kohäsion und Nähe erzeugten, ebenso Gender-Muster in der Online-Performanz. Indem die Autoren diese Ergebnisse nachvollziehbar machen, versuchen sie zu verdeutlichen, dass jugendliche Online-Interaktionen alternative Optionen bieten, um Beziehungen, Identifikation und soziale Positionierung zu untersuchen." (Autorenreferat)