Written by Howard Williamson Secretary, RC 34 – Sociology of Youth April 4th 2007 It seems an eternity since I sat through almost a hundred youth research papers during the World Congress in Durban. All those contacts and wonderful plans around things to do together in the future! And then we return to base and…

Written by Ani Wierenga Vice President for Australia, New Zealand and Oceania Background: The following notes were originally written for family and friends at home, to describe my experience of being in Durban for the ISA World Congress of Sociology in July 2006. The piece might provide a sense of the setting for those who…

Letter from Clarence Batan IBYR editor August 2005 Hello my dear friends: Good day. It has been about six months since I left Dalhousie for my Philippine fieldwork. The first three months were challenging. I have to re-introduce myself to our local university where the usual bureaucracy made it difficult for me to carry on…

Ovidiu Badina, founder and first president of RC34, died on April 26, 1999. With his death, youth studies lost a distinguished scholar, and many members of the Research Committee 34 lost a personal friend. Badina, one of the leading figures in Romanian sociology, was born in Breaza-Buzau in 1932 and had a typical academic career…

Teresa López Translator, Interpreter ETSEA Universitat de Lleida Writing this small summary about my week was a good exercise that made me reflect about the different environments I find myself in within the week, or I should say within the day. Monday morning starts at work, in the International Relations Office, where we are supposed…

Carmen Leccardi Department of Sociology and Social Research University of Milan-Bicocca Sunday 6 May Since years, by now, my working week begins on Sunday. I am so used to consider Sunday as the key day for the week agenda that, as far as I’m concerned, it is “occupied” when it is invaded – often not…