What does it mean to be young, to be economically disadvantaged, and to be subject to constant surveillance both from the formal agencies of the state and from the informal challenge of competing youth groups? What is life like for young people living on the fringe of global cities in late modernity, no longer at the center of city life, but pushed instead to new and insecure margins of the urban inner city? How are changing patterns of migration and work, along with shifting gender roles and expectations, impacting marginalized youth in the radically transformed urban city of the...
What does it mean to be young, to be economically disadvantaged, and to be subject to constant surveillance both from the formal agencies of the st...
Offers a window on the lives and educational experiences of young city dwellers in a time of accelerating globalization and urban malaise. This book shows how groups of young people, marked by poverty and ethnic and religious diversity, have sought to navigate an urban terrain and in so doing, have come to see themselves in quite different ways.
Offers a window on the lives and educational experiences of young city dwellers in a time of accelerating globalization and urban malaise. This book s...
This edited collection brings together scholars who draw on phenomenological approaches to understand the experiences of young people growing up under contemporary conditions of globalization. Phenomenology is both a philosophical and pragmatic approach to social sciences research, that takes as central the meaning-making experiences of research participants. One of the central contentions of this book is that phenomenology has long informed critical empirical approaches to youth cultures, yet until recently its role has not been thusly named. This volume aims to resuscitate and recuperate...
This edited collection brings together scholars who draw on phenomenological approaches to understand the experiences of young people growing up un...
What are the ties that bind the "good youth citizen" and the youth activist in the twenty-first century? Contemporary young people are encouraged - through education and other cultural sites - to "save the world" via community projects that resemble activism, yet increasingly risk arrest for public acts of dissent. Citizen Youth goes to the heart of these contradictions, exploring the dilemmas and cultural dynamics of being young and politically engaged.
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What are the ties that bind the "good youth citizen" and the youth activist in the twenty-first century? Contemporary young people are encouraged -...
Olympic Games are sold to host city populations on the basis of legacy commitments that incorporate aid for the young and the poor. Yet little is known about the realities of marginalized young people living in host cities. Do they benefit from social housing and employment opportunities? Or do they fall victim to increased policing and evaporating social assistance? This book answers these questions through an original ethnographic study of young people living in the shadow of Vancouver 2010 and London 2012.
Setting qualitative research alongside critical analysis of policy documents,...
Olympic Games are sold to host city populations on the basis of legacy commitments that incorporate aid for the young and the poor. Yet little is k...
