Intergenerational Conflict and Authentic Youth Experience: Adults Denigrating Young People

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Barney Langford (Tantrum Youth Arts Drama School, Australia)

Intergenerational Conflict and Authentic Youth Experience

Adults Denigrating Young People

Barney Langford (Tantrum Youth Arts Drama School, Australia)

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Routledge
29 August 2025

Rock & Pop music; Popular culture; Social issues & processes; Family psychology; Psychotherapy

Series: Youth, Young Adulthood and Society

This book explores how the youth experience, viscerally felt and deeply ingrained at a time of substantial physical, psychological and emotional changes, serves to authenticate that youth experience to the exclusion of that of ensuing youth generations.

Using Cohen’s concept of moral panic to frame the intergenerational conflict, notions of generational exclusivity and authenticity are explored through Bourdieu’s concept of habitus – how each generation privileges its own youth experience as the ‘standard’ by which other youth generations can be judged. Shared authenticated ‘generational understandings’ act as the benchmark by which ensuing youth generations can be assessed and found wanting. Intergenerational conflict has been brought into sharp focus by the emergence of the Millennial generation, digital natives, with their obsession with digital technology and particularly mobile phones.

The book will be of interest for the field of youth studies in general, particularly upper-level undergraduate youth studies courses and postgrads and social scientists. In addition, it will be of interest for scholars interested in the work of Pierre Bourdieu and Stanley Cohen and subject areas: intergenerational conflict, social change, popular culture, music, media and cultural studies, and social theory.

By: Barney Langford (Tantrum Youth Arts Drama School Australia)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 370g
ISBN: 9781032547794
ISBN 10: 1032547790
Series: Youth, Young Adulthood and Society
Pages: 190
Publication Date: 29 August 2025
Audience: General/trade , College/higher education , ELT Advanced , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Barney Langford is a retired teacher and youth arts practitioner. He is the founding Artistic Director of 2 Til 5 Youth Theatre (now Tantrum Youth Arts), one of Australia’s leading professional youth arts companies. He was for 15 years the Manager of the Loft Youth Arts and Cultural Centre. He lectured part time at University of Newcastle 1990–2003. He was awarded his doctorate in 2020 and his doctoral dissertation is the basis for this monograph. Barney’s interests include youth arts, youth studies and psephology.