Utopian Movements, Enactments and Subjectivities Among Youth in the Global South: Ethnographic Perspectives

ISBN-13: 9780367355029 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 130 str.

Oscar Salemink; Susanne Bregnbk; Dan Vesalainen Hirslund

Opis

Drawing on ethnographies from the Global South, this book explores how politically, religiously and (sub-)culturally inspired Utopias motivate youth to imagine, enact and embody what was missing in the past and present. This book was first published as a special issue of Identities.

Spis treści

Introduction: youth, subjectivity and Utopia – ethnographic perspectives from the Global South  1. Utopias of youth: politics of class in Maoist post-revolutionary mobilisation  2. Experimenting with alternative futures in Cairo: young Muslim volunteers between god and the nation  3. In search of the heart of a heartless world: Chinese youth, house-church Christianity and the longing for foreign Utopias  4. Displaced utopia: on marginalisation, migration and emplacement in Bissau  5. ‘When breaking you make your soul dance’ Utopian aspirations and subjective transformation in breakdance  6. Disjunctive belongings and the utopia of intimacy: violence, love and friendship among poor urban youth in neoliberal Chile  Afterword – Utopia: secular and religious