Brazilian Youth: Global Trends and Local Perspectives

ISBN-13: 9780367257644 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 176 str.

Claudia Pereira

Opis

The collection brings together texts of Brazilian researchers who are dedicated to themes related to studies of youth cultures: sociabilities, subcultures, identities and belonging, pop culture, social movements, migration, consumption and materialities, generational exchanges, media representations and digital media, among others.

Spis treści

Introduction: Visiting Brazilian youth paradoxes;  PART I: BRAZILIAN YOUTH, PUBLIC SPACE AND ACTIVISM;  1. Youth, culture and politics: societal changes and new conceptual challenges;  2. Formative practices of student collectives in a public university;  3. Ways of living and engaging in the city of São Paulo: local and global in the narratives and youth practices of the "School of Activism";  PART II: THE "OTHER" YOUTH AND THE CITY;  4. "It-girls" from Rio: between cultural mediation and urban fences;  5. Youth media consumption in rurban context: aspects from "Brasil profundo";  6. Rebuilding lives: itinerancies, life projects and field of possibilities of migrant youth in Brazil;  PART III: (IN)VISIBILITY STRATEGIES IN YOUTH CULTURES;  7. Affirmation and visibility between prejudices and stigmas of young from favelas in Brazil: let's talk about the "Passinho Dance";  8. "I want to have 1 million friends": youth sociability and visibility strategies on YouTube;  9. "Children of the dark in a tropical country": media archeology of Brazilian goth subculture and its transformation;  10. Fans who camp in concerts of pop artists: notes on performance and coloniality of Brazilian youth.