Outputs (11)

Supportive or overpowering? Entangled agency of young adults and parents during and after higher education in the U.S.A. (2023)
Journal Article

This article explores high parental involvement in students' lives during and after higher education. While many higher education students lack parental support, from advice to resources, there are also experiences on the other side of the spectrum.... Read More about Supportive or overpowering? Entangled agency of young adults and parents during and after higher education in the U.S.A..

Counselling and Psychotherapy as a Career for Anthropology Graduates (2023)
Digital Artefact

‘Fuck It, Shit Happens (FISH)’: a social generations approach to understanding young people’s imaginings of life after school in 2016–2017 (2019)
Journal Article

This article uses a social generations approach to explore the lives of young people transitioning to life after schooling. Drawing on ethnographic research in England during the geopolitical uncertainty of 2016–2017, we track the trajectories and na... Read More about ‘Fuck It, Shit Happens (FISH)’: a social generations approach to understanding young people’s imaginings of life after school in 2016–2017.

Fateful aspects of aspiration among graduates in New York and Los Angeles (2019)
Journal Article

This article presents ethnographic research on the aspirations of graduates from a private university in New York City, some of whom move to Los Angeles. Findings depict financial and family pressures exerting a governing force upon the graduates’ fu... Read More about Fateful aspects of aspiration among graduates in New York and Los Angeles.

Book Review: Aspiring adults adrift: tentative transitions of college graduates: by Richard Arum and Josipa Roksa (2019)
Journal Article

Travel imaginaries of youth in New York City: history, ethnicity and the politics of mobility (2019)
Book Chapter

This chapter presents findings from exploratory research with a group of adolescents from migrant backgrounds who have grown up in New York City. The main data source involves two group interviews staged around a large world map in which the youth di... Read More about Travel imaginaries of youth in New York City: history, ethnicity and the politics of mobility.

Book Review: The Art of Life and Death: Radical Aesthetics and Ethnographic Practice: by Andrew Irving (2019)
Journal Article

Solitude in NYC (2017)
Journal Article

Conducting an ethnography of university graduates in New York City, it has emerged that many lack a sense of group belonging. The relationship between individualism as a cultural trait, solitude as an aspect of social organization, and loneliness as... Read More about Solitude in NYC.

Between Categories and Cosmopolitanism: On the Subtleties of Voters’ Persuasions (2017)
Digital Artefact

Culture and personality in flux: an end of year reflection on an unrelenting future (2016)
Digital Artefact