Introduction : scope and background [Youth : responding to Lives]

Abstract

Young people remain one of the most contested populations that navigate in our communities. Within all the discourses that engage the notion of inclusion, youth present an interesting challenge that merits our academic rendezvous within a range of contexts. What we conceptualise as “youth” differs in altered theoretical positions, schools of thought and socio-cultural experiences but is partly defined in diverse scenarios as a rational, responsible, free, conscious, choosing, autonomous, self-regulatory with a contestable social position.