Violence, Victimisation and Young People

Ylva Odenbring, holds a PhD in Education and is Professor of Education at the Department of Education, Communication and Learning, University of Gothenburg, Sweden. Focus of her research is in the field of sociology of education and she is interested in the construction of gender, social class, student welfare, violence in school, processes of inclusion and exclusion in education as well as in the everyday lives of children and adolescents. She has published extensively around these issues. Currently, she is the convener of the Nordic Educational Research Association’s Gender and Education Network and member of the editorial board of Nordisk tidskrift for ungdomsforskning. Thomas Johansson’s PhD thesis is on youth, lifestyles and media culture (1992). Johansson has a background as a clinical psychologist and psychotherapist. He was promoted to a docent in Sociology (associate professor) in 1997, and to professor in social psychology in Skövde, in 2001. In 2010 he became professor of pedagogy at the faculty of education, University of Gothenburg, Sweden. He has published extensively in journals such as: Men and Masculinities, Young, Acta Sociologica, Journal of Men’s Studies, Ethnicities, Popular Music & Society, International Journal of the Sociology of the Family, Journal of Family Communication, Critical Social Work, International Review of Sociology, Journal of Gender Studies, The Urban Review, Power and Education, Pedagogy, Culture & Society, Leisure Studies, Sport in Society, Journal of Homosexuality, Qualitative Social Work, Sport, Education & Society, Body & Society.

• Chapter 1. Introduction (Ylva Odenbring and Thomas Johansson).- Part I: Power relations, Homosociality and Violence.- Chapter 2. Revisiting lower secondary schools in the 1990s: Reflections on and interpretations of sexual and gender-based harassment.- Chapter 3. Gender and Sexuality Policing: The violence that ‘doesn’t count’.- Chapter 4.The modern passage from boyhood to manhood and its relationship to bullying and harassment.- Chapter 5. Rumbling and tumbling in school: Jokes, masculinity and homosocial relations.- Chapter 6. What happens when young men hurt? Exploring young men’s experiences of relationship dissolution in educational contexts.- Part II: Sexualized violence and schooling.- Chapter 7. Young people’s experiences of sexting and online sexual victimization.- Chapter 8. Unsolicited Dick Pics: Online Sexual Harassment, Gendered Relations and Schooling.- Chapter 9. Resisting Rape Culture online and at school:  The pedagogy of Digital Defence and Feminist Activism Lessons.- Chapter 10. Heteronormative violence in schools: focus on homophobia, transphobia and the experiences of trans and non-heterosexual youth.- Chapter 11. Epistemic Violence towards LGBTQ students in Icelandic high schools: Challenges and opportunities for transforming schools.- Part III: Everyday racism, segregation and schooling.- Chapter 12. ‘Go home to your country!’ - Everyday racism in a rural lower secondary school.- Chapter 13. “I’ll have security, I’ll go to school, I’ll live my life” – Unaccompanied children on school, education and racism.- Chapter 14. ‘We are the bosses here’: Schooling, segregation and brotherhood.