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    Gerrard, Steven Threadgold and Jessica

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    Steven Threadgold is Associate Professor of Sociology at University of Newcastle. His research focuses on youth and class, with particular interests in unequal and alternate work and career trajectories, underground and independent creative scenes, and cultural formations of taste. Steve is Co-Director of the Newcastle Youth Studies Network, an Associate Editor of Journal of Youth Studies, and on the editorial boards of The Sociological Review and Journal of Applied Youth Studies. His books include Class in Australia and Bourdieu and Affect: Towards a Theory of Affective Affinities. Youth, Class and Everyday Struggles won the 2020 Raewyn Connell Prize for best first book in Australian sociology.

    Jessica Gerrard is Associate Professor at the University of Melbourne. She researches the changing formations and lived experiences of social inequalities in relation to education, activism, work and unemployment. Gerrard works across the disciplines of sociology, history and policy studies with an interest in critical methodologies and theories. Her books include Class in Australia, Radical Childhoods: Schooling and the Struggle for Social Change and Precarious Enterprise on the Margins: Work, Poverty and Homelessness in the City.;

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