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Steven Threadgold

Steven Threadgold

University of Newcastle

Steven Threadgold is a Senior Lecturer in 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 the 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 latests books are Youth, Class, and Everyday Struggles (Routledge) and Bourdieu and Affect: Towards a Theory of Affective Affinities (Bristol University Press).


Steve's current research projects are on online cultural taste communities called 'Dank Distinction and Homologies of Snark'; the ARC funded 'Young Hospitality Workers and Value Creation in the Service Economy' investigating the affective and immaterial forms of labour young people perform to create value in the night-time economy, and the FEDUA funded research program 'Regional youth in precarious times: Work, wellbeing and debt'.


Contact at

steven.threadgold@newcastle.edu.au

We acknowledge that the Centre for Urban Youth Research is located on the unceded and unsurrendered territories of the Algonquin-Anishnaabe peoples. As guests in this territory, we strive to work in collaboration and solidarity with the Algonquin peoples and other Indigenous, First Nations, Métis, and Inuit peoples on Turtle Island and globally to advance the recognition of truth and the fulfilment of (re)conciliation.

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