Youth Politics in Urban Asia

ISBN-13: 9780367693688 / Miękka / 2023 / 150 str.

Opis

Youth Politics in Urban Asia examines how young people’s political actions in Asia are the product of their urban realities, and at the same time, appreciates that young people are striving to remake these urban spaces in myriad of tangible and intangible ways.

Spis treści

Preface: youth, politics, and the city during the pandemic  Youth politics in urban Asia: an introduction  1. Urban custodians and hospitable citizens: citizenship and social actions at two liberal arts universities in Hong Kong and Shanghai  2. Politicizing youth in South Korea – the role of Seoul’s educational institutions  3. Feminist politicization of the urban: young female students challenging spatial patriarchies  4. Maps, movements and mobilities: Facebook and ‘checking-In’ among young men in Pune, India  5. ‘The path you will choose won’t be a fairy tale’: urban prefiguration and mountain nostalgia in India’s Northwest Himalayas  6. Reclaiming urban narratives: spatial politics and storytelling amongst Hong Kong youths  7. New forms of youth activism — Hong Kong’s Anti-Extradition Bill movement in the local-national-global nexus  Afterword: political triangulations: urban Asian youth politics amidst geopolitical, geoeconomic and geosocial tensions

O autorze

Yi’En Cheng is a Research Fellow at Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore. His research attends to implications of higher education change on young people’s citizenship and their experiences of mobility and immobility, with a focus on East and Southeast Asia.

Sonia Lam-Knott is a Research Affiliate at the School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography, University of Oxford. Her research addresses the interplay of politics, history, and space in contemporary Asian cities, with emphasis on Hong Kong.