group identity literatures.
This article conceptualizes authenticity as dependence on others, amenable to negotiation, and evaluated by how others tell. This approach can help us move from the static, mechanistic or subordinate notions of authenticity relative to the former, static definition of dependency (or defiance), to draw on methodologically rich studies of people's identity performances in a variety of group contexts. Using the Young People Research Project in the England and Wales context as its locus, the example of sub-culture conveys the point of this paper's contention: that group