Citation

Nichols N. Crit. Soc. Policy 2017; 37(4): 604-624.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2017, SAGE Publishing)

DOI

10.1177/0261018317690664

PMID

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Abstract

In this article, I investigate the social relations of evidence that transverse and connect schools, homes, the streets, and the courts. This institutional ethnography begins in the standpoints of racialised and 'at-risk youth' to investigate how institutional practices - embedded in and constitutive of the new relations of capital and exchange referred to as the knowledge economy - (re)produce intersecting social relations of objectification and exclusion. Beginning with young people's experiences of silencing and misrepresentation in public sector institutions, the article examines how different forms of evidence are produced and used across the various institutional settings where young people are active. The study demonstrates how seemingly objective institutional processes actually produce the experiences of diminishment and exclusion that young people described.

Language: en