ABSTRACT
Chapters 1 and 2 dealt mainly with the international contexts in which young people grow up. Chapter 3 addresses how young people’s lives are lived in, and shaped by, more local contexts. Although children and youth everywhere are faced by a degree of marginalisation on the basis of age, they are also affected by many other aspects of their lives, which may be more important to them. Individual (and collective) identities and experiences of childhood and youth are shaped by attributes which range from characteristics of the body (sex, ‘race’, dis/ability, age); characteristics of their families, and their position within the family (including birth order);
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dominated (Welti 2002), young people themselves engage in processes that are played out differently in settings that range from the very local to the global and include institutional environments (e.g. schools), workplaces, the media and peer groups.
