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This book examines how young people's experiences of inclusion and exclusion are shaped by extended social relations, coordinating thought and conduct across time and space. Working with young people and using a range of participatory institutional ethnographic strategies, Naomi Nichols investigates the social and institutional relations which differentially punctuate the lives of youth. While the research begins with what young people know and have experienced, this starting place anchors a deeper investigation of the public sector institutions and institutional processes that remain implicated in social-historical-economic processes of global capitalism, imperialism, and colonialism. Youth, School, and Community connects the dots between, on the one hand, the abstract objectified accounts produced by institutions and enabling institutional action and accounting practices, and, on the other hand, the actual material conditions of young people's lives and development, which these accounts obscure. The focus on specific policies and procedures that produce young people's experiences of racialized inclusion/exclusion and safety/risk make this book particularly useful to academics, professionals, and activists who want to ensure that young people experience equitable access to public sector resources and not disproportionate exposure to public sector punishments and punitive interventions.

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""The book's discussions of the youth's experiences through different systems, including education, child protection, and justice, are quite illuminating."" --Henry Parada, School of Social Work, Ryerson University "" Youth, School, and Community is an incredibly well-researched, well-written, informative, and compassionate book that does justice to the difficult conditions facing so many racialized, impoverished, and excluded young people in Canada. Naomi Nichols' commitment and passion for the young people she works with resonates throughout each page."" --Erin Dej, Department of Criminology, Wilfrid Laurier University ""True to the discipline of institutional ethnography, Naomi Nichols foregrounds and prioritizes people's lived experiences.""--Megan Welsh, School of Public Affairs, San Diego State University

"""The book's discussions of the youth's experiences through different systems, including education, child protection, and justice, are quite illuminating.""--Henry Parada, School of Social Work, Ryerson University ""Youth, School, and Community is an incredibly well-researched, well-written, informative, and compassionate book that does justice to the difficult conditions facing so many racialized, impoverished, and excluded young people in Canada. Naomi Nichols' commitment and passion for the young people she works with resonates throughout each page.""--Erin Dej, Department of Criminology, Wilfrid Laurier University ""True to the discipline of institutional ethnography, Naomi Nichols foregrounds and prioritizes people's lived experiences.""--Megan Welsh, School of Public Affairs, San Diego State University"

True to the discipline of institutional ethnography, Naomi Nichols foregrounds and prioritizes people's lived experiences. - Megan Welsh, School of Public Affairs, San Diego State University Youth, School, and Community is an incredibly well-researched, well-written, informative, and compassionate book that does justice to the difficult conditions facing so many racialized, impoverished, and excluded young people in Canada. Naomi Nichols' commitment and passion for the young people she works with resonates throughout each page. - Erin Dej, Department of Criminology, Wilfrid Laurier University The book's discussions of the youth's experiences through different systems, including education, child protection, and justice, are quite illuminating. - Henry Parada, School of Social Work, Ryerson University

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Naomi Nichols is an assistant professor in the Faculty of Education at McGill University. Nichols’ primary research focus is youth equity. She has published extensively on structural and policy drivers of inequality, poverty, and homelessness. Her secondary research focus is on processes of mobilizing diverse forms of knowledge to influence equitable social and policy change. Her central objective is to generate and mobilize an evidence base, which will drive processes of practice, policy and institutional change

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