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EMBODIED LIABILITY
The Usefulness of “At-Risk Youth”
Tina E. Wilson
Abstract: “At-risk” youth as a category has emerged in the context of neoliberal
forms of government in Canada. A governmentality-informed analysis of two
types of government discourse demonstrates how familiar social categories are
fabricated in such a way that the solution to structural problems becomes the
responsibility of the individual. Specifically, in the case of young people, struc-