This innovative collection of studies by international youth researchers, critically addresses questions of "global" youth, incorporating material from diverse regions such as Sydney, Tehran, Dakar and Manila. These studies showcase previously unpublished research on youth cultures beyond the English-speaking world and advance our knowledge about young people in different countries, exploring specific local youth cultures whilst mediating global mass media and consumption trends. By tracing some subaltern "youth landscapes" and telling some subaltern "youth stories" previously invisible in...

This book engages with the experience of space and time in youth cultures across the world. Putting together contemporary case studies on young transnationalists, young glocals and young protesters in cities on the five continents, it analyzes new agoras and chronotopes in global cities. It is based on a selection of papers first presented to the International Sociological Association (ISA) Research Committee 34 session on Youth Cultures, Space and Time that took place during the ISA World Congresses of Sociology in Gothenburg, Sweden (2010), and in Yokohama, Japan (2014). The value of this...