YOUNG
YOUNG is an international scholarly journal of youth research, which seeks to publish innovative and outstanding theoretical, textual, and empirical research on the life situation of young people. The journal has an interdisciplinary profile and welcomes original articles that integrate perspectives from different approaches and research traditions. YOUNG is a peer-reviewed, Gold Open Access journal.
Endorsements
YOUNG has earned its reputation as a journal at the forefront of the field of youth studies. Truly international, the journal is devoted to advancing thinking about contemporary youth and the issues that impact on young people’s lives. Its interdisciplinary nature ensures that it features articles that advance thinking about youth studies, challenge orthodoxies and open up understanding of diverse young lives. – Professor Johanna Wyn, FAcSS, ASSA, Director, Youth Research Centre, The University of Melbourne
‘YOUNG is the main academic forum for truly interdisciplinary youth research, covering among other areas sociological, anthropological, educational and media studies perspectives on youth, youth cultures and questions related to young people more generally. An indispensable read for anyone interested in the research area.’ —Göran Bolin, Södertörn University, Sweden
‘Already its first volume back in 1993 empowered youth studies by making innovative interdisciplinary and transnational moves that remain vital to the contemporary research agenda.’ —Johan Fornäs, Södertörn University, Sweden
''Sub-titled the 'Nordic Journal of Youth Research', YOUNG does much more than give space to the very well-established expertise in youth research found in the Nordic countries. To me, YOUNG is one of only a very few journals that can be relied upon so consistently to publish new, critical research and theory about youth and young people that is important internationally.'— Prof. Robert MacDonald BA DPhil FAcSS, Professor of Sociology/ Deputy Director - Social Futures Institute School of Social Sciences and Law, Teesside University Middlesbrough UK.
Electronic Access:
YOUNG is available electronically on SAGE Journals Online at http://journals.sagepub.com/home/YOU.
The journal is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).
Submit your manuscript today at https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/young.
YOUNG – Nordic Journal of Youth Research provides a forum for analytical, critical, and interdisciplinary research on youth and young people. The journal’s aim is to strengthen youth studies as a distinct field of inquiry by publishing work that explicitly engages with and advances debates in social scientific youth research. We encompass areas, such as youth leisure and culture, transitions, participation in society and emerging trends and challenges for young lives, while maintaining youth research as its main reference point. The journal approaches youth not as a fixed age group, but as a life perspective, a cultural practice, a social position, or a generational identity—situated within broader structures across societies.
We encourage submissions that engage critically with the traditions and debates of youth research, explicitly positioning their contribution within the field. We are particularly interested in contributions that analyze how young people actively navigate, resist, and reshape social conditions, and how societies in turn define, regulate, and imagine youth. Manuscripts can draw on diverse methodologies, from ethnography to quantitative analysis, while keeping young people’s perspectives at the centre. The journal does not accept work that treats youth merely as a convenient sample or an instrumental category detached from its social meaning.
By articulating a distinct scope, YOUNG seeks to maintain its role as a leading international journal for youth studies. Rooted in a Nordic tradition of interdisciplinarity, we now welcome contributions from all regions and contexts, provided they advance the field of youth research as a critical and evolving scholarly arena.
Manuscripts should generally be between 5,000 and 8,000 words (including references, tables, figures and notes). All submissions are subject to peer review through a double-anonymized reviewing process. For more author instructions, please see Submission Guidelines.
| Malin Fransberg | Finnish Youth Research Society, Helsinki, Finland |
| Antti Kivijärvi | The Finnish Youth Research Society, Helsinki, Finland |
| Nadezhda Vasileva | Faculty of Social Sciences, Tampere University, Finland |
| Susanna Ågren | Faculty of Social Sciences/Youth Research, Tampere University, Finland |
| Kalle Berggren | Department of Child and Youth Studies, Stockholm University, Sweden |
| Shane Blackman | Canterbury Christ Church University, UK |
| Gemma Commane | School of Media, Birmingham City University, UK |
| Lars Roar Frøyland | Oslo Metropolitan University, Norway |
| Ann-Karina Henriksen | Copenhagen University College, Frederiksberg, Denmark |
| Christer Hyggen | Oslo Metropolitan University, Norway |
| Magnus Kilger | Department of Child and Youth Studies, Stockholm University, Sweden |
| Hannah King | Department of Sociology, University of Durham, UK |
| Maria Klingenberg | Uppsala University, Sweden |
| Yana Krupets | Department of Sociology and Centre for Youth Studies, HSE University, St. Petersburg, Russia |
| Göran Bolin | Södertörn University, Sweden |
| Les Back | Goldsmiths College, United Kingdom |
| Vinod Chandra | Lucknow University, India |
| Carmen Leccardi | University of Milan-Bicocca, Italy |
| Sunaina Maira | University of California, Davis, USA |
| Anne Scott Sørensen | University of Southern Denmark, Denmark |
| Lucia Rabello de Castro | Uni. Rio de Janeiro |
| Carles Feixa Pàmpols | Pompeu Fabra University, Spain |
| Ann Phoenix | University College London, UK |
| Karen Valentin | University of Aarhus, Denmark |
| Johanna Wyn | University of Melbourne, Australia |
| Siyka Kovacheva | University of Plovdiv, Bulgaria |
| Pun Ngai | The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong |
| Christopher T Conner | University of Missouri, USA |
| Dorothy Tukahabwa | University of Rwanda, Republic of Rwanda |
| Mengyao Jiang | Qingdao University, China |
| Mounir Saidani | Tunis Al-Manar University, Republic of Tunisia |
| Adrian Scribano | University of Buenos Aires, Argentina |
| Madgerie Jameson-Charles | University of The West Indies, Republic of Trinidad and Tobago |
| Claire Paterson-Young | University of Northampton, United Kingdom |
| Hernan Cuervo | University of Melbourne, Australia |
Manuscript submission guidelines can be accessed on Sage Journals.