Young people, it seems, are both everywhere and nowhere. The
media are crowded with images of youth as deviant or fashionable,
personifying a society's anxieties and hopes about its own
transformation. However, theories of globalization, nationalism,
and citizenship tend to focus on adult actors. Youthscapes
sets youth at the heart of globalization by exploring the meanings
young people have created for themselves through their engagements
with popular cultures, national ideologies, and global
markets.
The term "youthscapes" places local youth practices within the
context of ongoing shifts in national and global forces. Using this
framework, the book revitalizes discussions about youth cultures
and social movements, while simultaneously reflecting on the uses
of youth as an academic and political category. Tracing young
people's movements across physical and imagined spaces, the authors
examine various cases of young people as they participate in social
relations; use and invent technology; earn, spend, need, and
despise money; comprise target markets while producing their own
original media; and create their own understandings of citizenship.
The essays examine young Thai women working in the transnational
beauty industry, former child soldiers in Sierra Leone, Latino
youth using graphic art in political organizing, a Sri Lankan
refugee's fan relationship with Jackie Chan, and Somali high school
students in the United States and Canada. Drawing on methodologies
and frameworks from multiple fields, such as anthropology,
sociology, and film studies, the volume is useful to those studying
and teaching issues of youth culture, popular culture,
globalization, social movements, education, and media.
By focusing on the intersection between globalization studies and
youth culture, the authors offer a vital contribution to the
development of a new, interdisciplinary approach to youth culture
studies.
eISBN: 978-0-8122-0567-1
Subjects: Anthropology
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