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Book SynopsisThis book contains a range of original studies on one of the major challenges in Africa today: the controversial role of youth in politics, conflict and rebellious movements. The issue is not only the drafting of child soldiers into insurgent armies or predatory militias, as in Somalia, Sierra Leone or Congo, but, more generally, that of the problematic insertion of large numbers of young people in the socio-economic and political order of post-colonial Africa. Even educated youths are being confronted with a lack of opportunities, blocked social mobility, and despair about the future. African youth, while forming a numerical majority, largely feel excluded from power, are socio-economically marginalized, thwarted in their ambitions, and have little access to representative positions or political power.Trade Review'The remarably contemporary case studies vary in theme and cover youth in East Central Africa and five nations on the hump of West Africa. R.M Fulton, Choice, June 2005.Table of ContentsContents Illustrations vii Maps vii Tables vii Photographs vii 1 Being young in Africa: The politics of despair and renewal 1 Jon Abbink PART I: HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES ON YOUTH AS AGENTS OF CHANGE 2 Towards a political history of youth in Muslim northern Nigeria, 1750-2000 37 Murray Last 3 Imagined generations: Constructing youth in revolutionary Zanzibar 55 G. Thomas Burgess PART II: STATE, CRISIS AND THE MOBILIZATION OF YOUTH 4 Clash of generations? Youth identity, violence and the politics of transition in Kenya, 1997-2002 81 Peter Mwangi Kagwanja 5 Re-generating the nation: Youth, revolution and the politics of history in Côte d’Ivoire 110 Karel Arnaut 6 War, changing ethics and the position of youth in South Sudan 143 Jok Madut Jok 7 Anglophone university students and Anglophone nationalist struggles in Cameroon 161 Piet Konings 8 Past the Kalashnikov: Youth, politics and the state in Eritrea 189 Sara Rich Dorman PART III: INTERVENTIONS: DEALING WITH YOUTH IN CRISIS 9 From generational conflict to renewed dialogue: Winning the trust of street children in Lomé, Togo 207 Yves Marguerat 10 Children as conflict stakeholders: Towards a new discourse on young combatants 228 Angela McIntyre 11 Warriors, hooligans and mercenaries: Failed statehood and the violence of young male pastoralists in the Horn of Africa 243 Simon Simonse 12 Reintegrating young ex-combatants in Sierra Leone: Accommodating indigenous and wartime value systems 267 Krijn Peters List of authors 297

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Book SynopsisYouth Identities and Social Transformations in Modern Indonesia addresses current struggles and opportunities facing Indonesia’s youth across the archipelago. Contributions to this volume delve into youth aspirations and their everyday lives - education; friendship; work; leisure; sexuality; religion - described through the lens of the young people themselves.Table of ContentsList of Tables and Figures Preface: Being Young in Indonesia, Kathryn Robinson Section 1: Studying Indonesia’s Youth: The Big Picture Chapter 1: Generation and Social Change: Indonesian Youth in Comparative Perspective, Ben White Chapter 2: Contemporary Indonesian Youth Transitions: Trends and Inequalities, Pam Nilan, Lyn Parker, Kathryn Robinson and Linda Bennett Section 2: Education—Securing Youth Futures? Chapter 3: Teenage Experiences of School, Work, and Life in a Javanese Village, Ben White and C. Ugik Margiyatin Chapter 4: Educational Aspirations and Inter-generational Relations in Sorowako, Kathryn Robinson Section 3: Friendship, Growing up, and Peer Surveillance Chapter 5: Pouring out One’s Heart: Close Friendships among Minangkabau Young People, Lyn Parker Chapter 6: Pramuka: Scouting Days of Fun, Pujo Semedi Section 4: Performing Youth in Space and Time Chapter 7: Dwindling Space and Expanding Worlds for Youth in Rural and Urban Yogyakarta, Patrick Guinness Chapter 8: Local Modernities: Young Women Socializing Together, Pam Nilan Section 5: Performing Masculinity, Claiming the Street Chapter 9: Streetwise Masculinity and Other Urban Performances of Postwar Ambon: A Photo-Essay, Patricia Spyer Chapter 10: Violent Activism, Islamist Ideology, and the Conquest of Public Space among Youth in Indonesia, Noorhaidi Hasan Section 6: “Moral Panics” and the Health of the Nation Chapter 11: The Ongoing Culture Debate: Female Youth and Pergaulan (Bebas) in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, Tracy Wright Webster Chapter 12: Young Sasak Mothers—“Tidak Manja Lagi”: Transitioning from Single Daughter to Young Married Mother in Lombok, Eastern Indonesia, Linda Rae Bennett Index

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Book SynopsisYoung People and the Politics of Outrage and Hope brings together contributions from international youth studies experts who ask how young people and institutions are responding to high levels of unemployment, student debt, housing costs that lock many out of home ownership, and the challenge to find meaningful modes of participation in neo-liberal social contexts. Contributors including Henry Giroux, Anita Harris and Judith Bessant, draw on a range of theoretical, methodological and empirical work to identify and debate some of the challenges and opportunities of the politics of outrage and hope that should accompany academic, community and political discussions about the futures that young people will inherit and make. Young People and the Politics of Outrage and Hope is now available in paperback for individual customers.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Introduction Part 1:Neo-Liberal Capitalism and the Politics of Outrage 1 Neoliberal Violence Against Youth in the Age of Orwellian Nightmares  Henry A. Giroux 2 Channelling Hope through Peer to Peer Technology: Education and Participatory Practice  Judith Bessant 3 Performing Dispossession: Young People and the Politics of the Guerrilla Self  Perri Campbell and Luke Howie 4 New Politics: The Anonymous Politics of 4chan, Outrage and the New Public Sphere  Rob Watts 5 Hacking the Future: Youth, Digital Disruption and the Promise of the New  Shane B. Duggan 6 Neo-Liberal Capitalism and the War on Young People: Growing Up with the Illusion of Choice and the Ambivalence of Freedom  Peter Kelly Part 2: Education, Work and the Promise of Hope 7 Making the Hopeful Citizen in Precarious Times  Rosalyn Black 8 Indigenous Young Australians and Pathways to Hope in the Struggle to‘get real’  Chris Hickey and Lyn Harrison 9 Dreams of Ordinariness: The “missing middle” of Youth Aspirations in Sardinia  Giuliana Mandich 10 Beyond Hope and Outrage: Conceptualizing and Harnessing Adversity Capital in Young People  Lucas Walsh 11 The Youth Bulge: Remaking Precarity in Times of Illegitimacy  Emma E. Rowe Part 3: Cultures of Democracy and the Politics of Belonging 12 The Moral Emotions of Youthful Politics and Anti-Politics  Kerry Montero and Judith Bessant 13 Young Muslims and Everyday Political Practice: A DIY Citizenship Approach  Anita Harris and Joshua Roose 14 Young Indonesians and WikiDPR: Between Apathy and Engagement  Michael Hatherell 15 Strategic Space for Progressive Alternatives: Syriza and Democracy in Greece  John Bourdouvalis 16 The Socio-Demographic and Political Contexts and Legacies of the Arab Spring  Ken Roberts 17 Outrageous Disparities: Young Peoples’ Perspectives on Wealth Inequality, Collectivity, and Hope in New York City  Madeline Fox and Brett Stoudt 18 2011 and World Revolutionary Moments: Mapping New Strategies and Alliances in Australian Youth Activism  Freg J Stokes Index

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Book SynopsisThe aim of Protests and Generations is to problematize the relations between generations and protests in the Middle East, North Africa and the Mediterranean. Most of the work on recent protests insists on the newness of their manifestation but leave unexplored the various links that exist between them and what preceded them. Mark Muhannad Ayyash and Ratiba Hadj-Moussa (Eds.) argue that their articulation relies at once on historical ties and their rejection. It is precisely this tension that the chapters of the book address in specifically documenting several case studies that highlight the generating processes by which generations and protests are connected. What the production and use of generation brings to scholarly understanding of the protests and the ability to articulate them is one of the major questions this collection addresses. Contributors are: Mark Muhannad Ayyash, Lorenzo Cini, Éric Gobe, Ratiba Hadj-Moussa, Andrea Hajek, Chaymaa Hassabo, Gal Levy, Ilana Kaufman, Sunaina Maira, Mohammad Massala, Matthieu Rey, Gökbörü Sarp Tanyildiz, and Stephen Luis Vilaseca. *Protests and Generations is now available in paperback for individual customers.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Introduction: Conceptualizing Generations and Protests  Mark Muhannad Ayyash and Ratiba Hadj-Moussa Part 1: Forms of Protest and the Production of Generations 1 Palestinian Youth in Israel: A New Generational Style of Activism?  Mohammad Massalha, Ilana Kaufman and Gal Levy 2 From Student to General Struggle: The Protests against the Neoliberal Reforms in Higher Education in Contemporary Italy  Lorenzo Cini 3 Lawyers Mobilizing in the Tunisian Uprising: A Matter of ‘generations’?  Éric Gobe Part 2: Genealogies of Generational Formations 4 2003: A Turning Point in the Formation of Syrian Youth  Matthieu Rey 5 Together, but Divided: Trajectories of a Generation of Egyptian Political Activists (from 2005 to the Revolution)  Chaymaa Hassabo 6 The Gezi Protests: The Making of the Next Left Generation in Turkey  Gökbörü Sarp Tanyildiz Part 3: Memory, History and the “New Generation” 7 ‘Freedom is a Daily Practice’: The Palestinian Youth Movement and Jil Oslo  Sunaina Maira 8 The Double Presence of Southern Algerians: Space, Generation and Unemployment  Ratiba Hadj-Moussa 9 “We are not heiresses”: Generational Memory, Heritage and Inheritance in Contemporary Italian Feminism  Andrea Hajek 10 Echoes of Ricardo Mella: Reading Twenty-First Century Youth Protest Movements through the Lens of an Early Twentieth-Century Anarchist  Stephen Luis Vilaseca

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Book SynopsisYouth, Religion, and Identity in a Globalizing Context: International Perspectives investigates the ways that young people navigate the intersections of religion and identity. As part of the Youth in a Globalizing World series, this book provides a broad discussion on the various social, cultural, and political forces affecting youth and their identities from an international comparative perspective. Contributors to this volume situate the experiences of young people in Canada, the United States, Germany, and Australia within a globalized context. This volume explores the different experiences of youth, the impact of community and processes of recognition, and the reality of ambivalence as agency. Youth, Religion, and Identity in a Globalizing Context: International Perspectives is now available in paperback for individual customers.

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Book SynopsisGathering scholars from five continents, this edited book displaces the elitist image of cosmopolitan as well as the blame addressed to aesthetic cosmopolitanism often considered as merely cosmetic. By considering aesthetic cosmopolitanism as a tool to understand how individuals and social groups appropriate the sphere of culture in a global world, the authors are concerned with its operationalization on two strongly interwoven levels, macro and micro, structural and individual. Based on the discussion of theoretical perspectives and empirically grounded research (qualitative and quantitative, conducted in many countries), this volume unveils new insights, on tourism and food, architecture and museums, TV series and movies, rock, K-pop and samba, by providing resources for making sense of aesthetic preferences in a global perspective. Contributors are: Felicia Chan, Vincenzo Cicchelli, Talitha Alessandra Ferreira, Paula Iadevito, Sukhmani Khorana, Anne Krebs, Antoinette Kujilaars, Franck Mermier, Sylvie Octobre, Joana Pellerano, Rosario Radakovich, Motti Regev, Viviane Riegel, Clara Rodriguez, Leslie Sklair, Yi-Ping Eva Shi, Claire Thoumelin and Dario Verderame.Trade ReviewAesthetic Cosmopolitanism and Global Culture offers a timely and compelling reminder that cosmopolitanism is not merely a remote geopolitical ideal but rather an embodied and everyday strategy for navigating our cultural differences alongside our common humanity. With impressive historical depth and geographical breadth, this collection illustrates in rich detail how the dynamics of globalization enter our domestic worlds through cultural forms ranging from architecture, artwork, food, and film to parenting styles, pop music, television, and dance. It should be read by anyone seeking a deeper understanding of the crucial role culture plays in a world that is both more connected and more conflicted than ever before. —Jennie Germann Molz, Professor of Sociology, College of the Holy Cross Cosmopolitanism is usually valorized as a worthy ideal but also dismissed an being incompatible with reality. This sparkling collection of essays tell a different story. By starting from the ground of everyday cultural encounters, or by tracing the new networks of artistic practices, this book provides a new approach for understanding the existence of aesthetic cosmopolitanism. Along this journey, the authors of this collection provide both an empirical justification and open up new methodological forays into a vital concept for our contemporary world. This book will be an invaluable resource in appreciating the plurality in cultural experience. —Nikos Papastergiadis, Director of the Research Unit of Public Cultures, University of Melbourne This is a great book which makes a very much welcome contribution to understand the opportunities that our contemporary World offers for a truly global culture. Working out a very accurate and smooth transition from theoretical debates to broad empirical evidence, the gathering of studies worldwide achieves by itself what the title promises, an excellent portrait of cosmopolitan aesthetics of our societies around the Globe. Anyone working and thinking about our World today should read it. —Dr. Modesto Guillermo Gayo, Universidad Diego PortalesTable of ContentsForeword to Aesthetic Cosmopolitanism  Mike Featherstone List of Illustrations List of Abbreviations Notes on Contributors Introduction: How Aesthetic Cosmopolitan Is Our Global World?  Vincenzo Cicchelli, Sylvie Octobre and Viviane Riegel Part 1 Doing Aesthetic Cosmopolitan Studies 1 The Condition of Cultural Cosmopolitanism  Motti Regev 2 The Seven Pillars of Aesthetico-Cultural Cosmopolitanism  Vincenzo Cicchelli and Sylvie Octobre 3 The ‘frame’, the ‘rhythm’, and the ‘imaginary’: Rethinking the Cosmopolitan Aesthetic Experience  Dario Verderame Part 2 Reshaping the Imaginaries of the World 4 The Politics of Cosmopolitan Architecture: Third World Modernism and the Enigmatic Signifier  Leslie Sklair 5 Aesthetic Cosmopolitanism in São Paulo: a Peripheral Perspective from a Global City  Viviane Riegel 6 Australians in Hanoi: When Street Food Tours are Safely Exotic  Sukhmani Khorana 7 Musical Cosmopolitanism: Analysis and Reflections on Cultural Consumption, Gender and Identities around K-pop in Argentina  Paula Iadevito Part 3 Reframing Boundaries through Aesthetics 8 Cosmopolitan Socialization: How I See Me, How They See Me  Clara Rodriguez 9 The Love for Cinema Undergoing Transformations: Internationalization and Cosmopolitanism Patterns of Uruguayan Cinephiles  Rosario Radakovich 10 The Globalization of Samba Percussion: the Reconfiguration of the Legitimate Ways of Playing  Antoinette Kuijlaars 11 Cosmopolitan Pleasures and Affects; or Why Are We Still Talking about Yellowface in Twenty-First-Century Cinema?  Felicia Chan Part 4 Aesthetic Cosmopolitanism as a Strategy 12 Redefining Cosmopolitanism: the Inter-Generational Transmission of Global Cultural Capital in Taiwan  Yi-Ping Eva Shih 13 Louvre Abu Dhabi: a Clash of Cosmopolitanisms?  Anne Krebs and Franck Mermier 14 São Paulo and the Brazilian Gastronomy: Field of Disputes within Globalization  Joana A. Pellerano and Talitha Alessandra Ferreira 15 Danish Television Series, a Cosmopolitan Artwork  Claire Thoumelin Afterword: A New Road toward Global Culture  Shujiro Yazawa Index

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Book SynopsisFrance experienced an unprecedented wave of terrorist attacks in 2015. Following these tragic events, social science researchers felt the need to undertake new work to better understand the dynamics of this new radicalism. This book is the result of one of these attempts. A large quantitative and qualitative survey was conducted among French Lycée students in order to gather substantive information and propose an interpretation of the penetration of radical ideas, be they religious or political, among them. How widespread are these radical ideas? What are the main characteristics of youngsters who share them? Are there links between religious radicalism and political radicalism? How do young people feel about the 2015 terrorist attacks? How do young people use media and social media to keep abreast of and understand radical acts and opinions? Those are the main questions explored in this book. Contributors are: Vincenzo Cicchelli, Alexandra Frénod, Olivier Galland, Laurent Lardeux, Anne Muxel, Jean-François Mignot and Sylvie Octobre.Table of Contents List of Illustrations  Notes on Contributors  Introduction   Olivier Galland and Anne Muxel Prologue: Field Work Diary   Alexandra Frénod 1 Radicalism in Question   Olivier Galland and Anne Muxel 2 Religious Radicalism: from Absolutism to Violence   Olivier Galland 3 Students’ Reactions to the 2015 Paris Attacks   Jean-François Mignot 4 Political Radicalism: between Protest and Violence   Anne Muxel 5 Deprivation, Discrimination and Radicalism   Laurent Lardeux 6 Conspiracy Theories and Informational Radicalism   Vincenzo Cicchelli and Sylvie Octobre  Afterword   Olivier Galland and Anne Muxel Appendices References Index

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Book SynopsisThis collection sheds light on diverse forms of collective engagement among young people. Recent developments in youth studies, and the changing global shape of socio-economic conditions for young people, demand new approaches and ideas. Contributors focus on novel processes, practices and routines within youth collectivity in various contexts across the globe, including Indonesia, Spain, Italy, Norway and Poland. The chapters pay particular attention to transitional phases in the lives of young people. Conceptually, the book also explores the strengths and limitations of a focus on collectivity in youth studies. Ultimately, the book makes the case for a focus on forms of collectivity and engagement to help scholars think through contemporary experiences of shared social life among young people. Contributors are: Duncan Adam, Massimiliano Andretta, Roberta Bracciale, David Cairns, Diego Carbajo Padilla, Enzo Colombo, Valentina Cuzzocrea, Carles Feixa, Ben Gook, Izabela Grabowska, Natalia Juchniewicz, Ewa Krzaklewska, Wolfgang Lehmann, Michelle Mansfield, María Martinez, Ann Nilsen, Rebecca Raby, Paola Rebughini, Birgit Reißig, Bjørn Schiermer, Tabea Schlimbach, Melanie Simms, Benjamín Tejerina, Kristoffer C Vogt, and Natalia Waechter.Table of ContentsList of Figures and Tables Notes on Contributors 1 Bringing Together Forms of Collective Engagement in Youth Transitions  Processes, Practices and Theoretical Perspectives   Valentina Cuzzocrea, Ben Gook and Bjørn Schiermer PART 1 Forms of Collective Engagement in (Un)employment, (Lack of) Work, Collaborative Practices 2 Transition Companions.  The Role of Peers in German School-to-Work Transitions   Tabea Schlimbach and Birgit Reißig 3 Early Teen-Work Assemblages and Embedded Dependence   Rebecca Raby and Wolfgang Lehmann 4 Precarious Solidarities  Unions, Young Workers and Representative Claims   Melanie Simms and Duncan Adam PART 2 Youth Collectivities and Transformed Public Space 5 The Lonjas in the Basque Country  New Forms of Collectivity in Precarious Times   Diego Carbajo, María Martínez and Benjamín Tejerina 6 Collective Individualism  Practices of Youth Collectivity within a Graffiti Community in Yogyakarta, Indonesia   Michelle Mansfield 7 ‘There Is No Me, There Is Only Us’  The Erasmus Bubble as a Transient Form of Transnational Collectivity   Valentina Cuzzocrea, Ewa Krzaklewska and David Cairns PART 3 Youth Collectivities in Forging Youth Identities through New Media 8 Young Italians, NEETs and Political Engagement  Any Good News?   Massimiliano Andretta and Roberta Bracciale 9 Gendered Social Media Cultures between Individuality and Collectivity   Natalia Waechter 10 The Assisting Collectivities of Young Migrants and Nonmigrants via New Media   Natalia Juchniewicz and Izabela Grabowska PART 4 Forms of Collective Engagement in Reshaping Subjectivities 11 The Taken-for-Granted in Intergenerational Processes during Youth Transitions  Exploring Intersections of Gender, Class and Historical Period   Ann Nilsen and Kristoffer Chelsom Vogt 12 Connecting Individualisations  Towards a New Generational Collective Action   Enzo Colombo and Paola Rebughini  Afterword   Carles Feixa Index

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Book SynopsisThe aim of Protests and Generations is to problematize the relations between generations and protests in the Middle East, North Africa and the Mediterranean. Most of the work on recent protests insists on the newness of their manifestation but leave unexplored the various links that exist between them and what preceded them. Mark Muhannad Ayyash and Ratiba Hadj-Moussa (Eds.) argue that their articulation relies at once on historical ties and their rejection. It is precisely this tension that the chapters of the book address in specifically documenting several case studies that highlight the generating processes by which generations and protests are connected. What the production and use of generation brings to scholarly understanding of the protests and the ability to articulate them is one of the major questions this collection addresses. Contributors are: Mark Muhannad Ayyash, Lorenzo Cini, Éric Gobe, Ratiba Hadj-Moussa, Andrea Hajek, Chaymaa Hassabo, Gal Levy, Ilana Kaufman, Sunaina Maira, Mohammad Massala, Matthieu Rey, Gökbörü Sarp Tanyildiz, and Stephen Luis Vilaseca. *Protests and Generations is now available in paperback for individual customers.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Introduction: Conceptualizing Generations and Protests  Mark Muhannad Ayyash and Ratiba Hadj-Moussa Part 1: Forms of Protest and the Production of Generations 1 Palestinian Youth in Israel: A New Generational Style of Activism?  Mohammad Massalha, Ilana Kaufman and Gal Levy 2 From Student to General Struggle: The Protests against the Neoliberal Reforms in Higher Education in Contemporary Italy  Lorenzo Cini 3 Lawyers Mobilizing in the Tunisian Uprising: A Matter of ‘generations’?  Éric Gobe Part 2: Genealogies of Generational Formations 4 2003: A Turning Point in the Formation of Syrian Youth  Matthieu Rey 5 Together, but Divided: Trajectories of a Generation of Egyptian Political Activists (from 2005 to the Revolution)  Chaymaa Hassabo 6 The Gezi Protests: The Making of the Next Left Generation in Turkey  Gökbörü Sarp Tanyildiz Part 3: Memory, History and the “New Generation” 7 ‘Freedom is a Daily Practice’: The Palestinian Youth Movement and Jil Oslo  Sunaina Maira 8 The Double Presence of Southern Algerians: Space, Generation and Unemployment  Ratiba Hadj-Moussa 9 “We are not heiresses”: Generational Memory, Heritage and Inheritance in Contemporary Italian Feminism  Andrea Hajek 10 Echoes of Ricardo Mella: Reading Twenty-First Century Youth Protest Movements through the Lens of an Early Twentieth-Century Anarchist  Stephen Luis Vilaseca

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Book SynopsisYoung People and the Politics of Outrage and Hope brings together contributions from international youth studies experts who ask how young people and institutions are responding to high levels of unemployment, student debt, housing costs that lock many out of home ownership, and the challenge to find meaningful modes of participation in neo-liberal social contexts. Contributors including Henry Giroux, Anita Harris and Judith Bessant, draw on a range of theoretical, methodological and empirical work to identify and debate some of the challenges and opportunities of the politics of outrage and hope that should accompany academic, community and political discussions about the futures that young people will inherit and make. Young People and the Politics of Outrage and Hope is now available in paperback for individual customers.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Introduction Part 1:Neo-Liberal Capitalism and the Politics of Outrage 1 Neoliberal Violence Against Youth in the Age of Orwellian Nightmares  Henry A. Giroux 2 Channelling Hope through Peer to Peer Technology: Education and Participatory Practice  Judith Bessant 3 Performing Dispossession: Young People and the Politics of the Guerrilla Self  Perri Campbell and Luke Howie 4 New Politics: The Anonymous Politics of 4chan, Outrage and the New Public Sphere  Rob Watts 5 Hacking the Future: Youth, Digital Disruption and the Promise of the New  Shane B. Duggan 6 Neo-Liberal Capitalism and the War on Young People: Growing Up with the Illusion of Choice and the Ambivalence of Freedom  Peter Kelly Part 2: Education, Work and the Promise of Hope 7 Making the Hopeful Citizen in Precarious Times  Rosalyn Black 8 Indigenous Young Australians and Pathways to Hope in the Struggle to‘get real’  Chris Hickey and Lyn Harrison 9 Dreams of Ordinariness: The “missing middle” of Youth Aspirations in Sardinia  Giuliana Mandich 10 Beyond Hope and Outrage: Conceptualizing and Harnessing Adversity Capital in Young People  Lucas Walsh 11 The Youth Bulge: Remaking Precarity in Times of Illegitimacy  Emma E. Rowe Part 3: Cultures of Democracy and the Politics of Belonging 12 The Moral Emotions of Youthful Politics and Anti-Politics  Kerry Montero and Judith Bessant 13 Young Muslims and Everyday Political Practice: A DIY Citizenship Approach  Anita Harris and Joshua Roose 14 Young Indonesians and WikiDPR: Between Apathy and Engagement  Michael Hatherell 15 Strategic Space for Progressive Alternatives: Syriza and Democracy in Greece  John Bourdouvalis 16 The Socio-Demographic and Political Contexts and Legacies of the Arab Spring  Ken Roberts 17 Outrageous Disparities: Young Peoples’ Perspectives on Wealth Inequality, Collectivity, and Hope in New York City  Madeline Fox and Brett Stoudt 18 2011 and World Revolutionary Moments: Mapping New Strategies and Alliances in Australian Youth Activism  Freg J Stokes Index

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Book SynopsisYouth, Religion, and Identity in a Globalizing Context: International Perspectives investigates the ways that young people navigate the intersections of religion and identity. As part of the Youth in a Globalizing World series, this book provides a broad discussion on the various social, cultural, and political forces affecting youth and their identities from an international comparative perspective. Contributors to this volume situate the experiences of young people in Canada, the United States, Germany, and Australia within a globalized context. This volume explores the different experiences of youth, the impact of community and processes of recognition, and the reality of ambivalence as agency. Youth, Religion, and Identity in a Globalizing Context: International Perspectives is now available in paperback for individual customers.

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Book SynopsisGathering scholars from five continents, this edited book displaces the elitist image of cosmopolitan as well as the blame addressed to aesthetic cosmopolitanism often considered as merely cosmetic. By considering aesthetic cosmopolitanism as a tool to understand how individuals and social groups appropriate the sphere of culture in a global world, the authors are concerned with its operationalization on two strongly interwoven levels, macro and micro, structural and individual. Based on the discussion of theoretical perspectives and empirically grounded research (qualitative and quantitative, conducted in many countries), this volume unveils new insights, on tourism and food, architecture and museums, TV series and movies, rock, K-pop and samba, by providing resources for making sense of aesthetic preferences in a global perspective. Contributors are: Felicia Chan, Vincenzo Cicchelli, Talitha Alessandra Ferreira, Paula Iadevito, Sukhmani Khorana, Anne Krebs, Antoinette Kujilaars, Franck Mermier, Sylvie Octobre, Joana Pellerano, Rosario Radakovich, Motti Regev, Viviane Riegel, Clara Rodriguez, Leslie Sklair, Yi-Ping Eva Shi, Claire Thoumelin and Dario Verderame.Trade ReviewAesthetic Cosmopolitanism and Global Culture offers a timely and compelling reminder that cosmopolitanism is not merely a remote geopolitical ideal but rather an embodied and everyday strategy for navigating our cultural differences alongside our common humanity. With impressive historical depth and geographical breadth, this collection illustrates in rich detail how the dynamics of globalization enter our domestic worlds through cultural forms ranging from architecture, artwork, food, and film to parenting styles, pop music, television, and dance. It should be read by anyone seeking a deeper understanding of the crucial role culture plays in a world that is both more connected and more conflicted than ever before. —Jennie Germann Molz, Professor of Sociology, College of the Holy Cross Cosmopolitanism is usually valorized as a worthy ideal but also dismissed an being incompatible with reality. This sparkling collection of essays tell a different story. By starting from the ground of everyday cultural encounters, or by tracing the new networks of artistic practices, this book provides a new approach for understanding the existence of aesthetic cosmopolitanism. Along this journey, the authors of this collection provide both an empirical justification and open up new methodological forays into a vital concept for our contemporary world. This book will be an invaluable resource in appreciating the plurality in cultural experience. —Nikos Papastergiadis, Director of the Research Unit of Public Cultures, University of Melbourne This is a great book which makes a very much welcome contribution to understand the opportunities that our contemporary World offers for a truly global culture. Working out a very accurate and smooth transition from theoretical debates to broad empirical evidence, the gathering of studies worldwide achieves by itself what the title promises, an excellent portrait of cosmopolitan aesthetics of our societies around the Globe. Anyone working and thinking about our World today should read it. —Dr. Modesto Guillermo Gayo, Universidad Diego PortalesTable of ContentsForeword to Aesthetic Cosmopolitanism  Mike Featherstone List of Illustrations List of Abbreviations Notes on Contributors Introduction: How Aesthetic Cosmopolitan Is Our Global World?  Vincenzo Cicchelli, Sylvie Octobre and Viviane Riegel Part 1 Doing Aesthetic Cosmopolitan Studies 1 The Condition of Cultural Cosmopolitanism  Motti Regev 2 The Seven Pillars of Aesthetico-Cultural Cosmopolitanism  Vincenzo Cicchelli and Sylvie Octobre 3 The ‘frame’, the ‘rhythm’, and the ‘imaginary’: Rethinking the Cosmopolitan Aesthetic Experience  Dario Verderame Part 2 Reshaping the Imaginaries of the World 4 The Politics of Cosmopolitan Architecture: Third World Modernism and the Enigmatic Signifier  Leslie Sklair 5 Aesthetic Cosmopolitanism in São Paulo: a Peripheral Perspective from a Global City  Viviane Riegel 6 Australians in Hanoi: When Street Food Tours are Safely Exotic  Sukhmani Khorana 7 Musical Cosmopolitanism: Analysis and Reflections on Cultural Consumption, Gender and Identities around K-pop in Argentina  Paula Iadevito Part 3 Reframing Boundaries through Aesthetics 8 Cosmopolitan Socialization: How I See Me, How They See Me  Clara Rodriguez 9 The Love for Cinema Undergoing Transformations: Internationalization and Cosmopolitanism Patterns of Uruguayan Cinephiles  Rosario Radakovich 10 The Globalization of Samba Percussion: the Reconfiguration of the Legitimate Ways of Playing  Antoinette Kuijlaars 11 Cosmopolitan Pleasures and Affects; or Why Are We Still Talking about Yellowface in Twenty-First-Century Cinema?  Felicia Chan Part 4 Aesthetic Cosmopolitanism as a Strategy 12 Redefining Cosmopolitanism: the Inter-Generational Transmission of Global Cultural Capital in Taiwan  Yi-Ping Eva Shih 13 Louvre Abu Dhabi: a Clash of Cosmopolitanisms?  Anne Krebs and Franck Mermier 14 São Paulo and the Brazilian Gastronomy: Field of Disputes within Globalization  Joana A. Pellerano and Talitha Alessandra Ferreira 15 Danish Television Series, a Cosmopolitan Artwork  Claire Thoumelin Afterword: A New Road toward Global Culture  Shujiro Yazawa Index

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Book SynopsisThe main gaol of this book is to discuss the place and role of video games in contemporary societies and their impact on individual relationships. It analyses how the development of video games is a sign of and a factor in the democratization of modern societies. Judit Vari explores how video games contribute to the moral and political socialization of children and teenagers. The book is structured into two parts. The first explores the methodological, ethical and epistemological implications of Games Studies, and shows how the development of an independent field of research on video games can be analyzed as a sign of democratization. The second part focuses on youth identity experimentations and how video games can contribute to the democratization of social relations. She discusses play inequalities, but also how video games are reconfiguring family and peer relationships, thereby influencing the movement of democratization of societies.Table of ContentsI Playful Trajectories and Experimentations Video Games in the Moral and Political Socialization of Children and Young People  Judit Vari Abstract Keywords  Introduction  Part 1. Methodological, Ethical, and Epistemological Challenges  Part 2. Video Games: Experiences of Self Here and Elsewhere  Conclusion  Bibliographical References

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Book SynopsisIn Totalitarianism in the Postmodern Age Piotr Mazurkiewicz et al. seek to answer the question whether a possible spread of pre-totalitarian attitudes among youth may in the near future pose a threat to the contemporary liberal democratic societies. The authors offer a new approach to the study of totalitarian trends in European societies significantly different from the previous one exploring mainly the historical and institutional-procedural aspects. The book not only offers interesting conclusions drawn from empirical research but also proposes an intellectually attractive theoretical model of understanding totalitarianism that can be used for further research. The impulse for this reflection was the research work performed by the authors on a cohort of contemporary youths from seven countries of Central and Eastern Europe.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Contributors Introduction  Miracle Collections in Their Contexts   Sari Katajala-Peltomaa, Jenni Kuuliala and Iona McCleery 1 Writing Miracle Collections   Louise Elizabeth Wilson 2 Miracles in Monastic Culture   Emilia Jamroziak 3 The Canonization of Saints in the Middle Ages  Procedure, Documentation, Meanings   Roberto Paciocco 4 Practical Matters  Canonization Records in the Making   Sari Katajala-Peltomaa and Jenni Kuuliala 5 Heretics, Hemorrhages, and Herrings  Miracles and the Canonizations of Dominican Saints   Donald S. Prudlo 6 Miracula and Exempla – A Complicated Relationship   Jussi Hanska 7 Rituals and Spaces of Devotion in Cistercian Everyday Religion   Marika Räsänen 8 Pilgrimage as a Feature of Miracles   Leigh Ann Craig 9 Physical Disability and Bodily Difference   Jenni Kuuliala 10 Madness, Demonic Possession, and Methods of Categorization   Sari Katajala-Peltomaa 11 Death in a Birth Chamber  Birth Attendants as Expert Witnesses in the Canonization Process of Bernardino of Siena   Jyrki Nissi 12 Escaping Justice?  The Politics of Liberation Miracles in Late Medieval Portugal   Iona McCleery 13 Protection Miracles as Evidence for the Shifting Political Landscape of Fourteenth-Century Provence   Nicole Archambeau 14 The Mobilization of Thought  A Narratological Approach to Representations of Dream and Vision in Late Medieval Miracle Collections in the Low Countries   Jonas Van Mulder 15 Miracle Types and Narratives  The Case of Saint Margaret of Hungary   Ildikó Csepregi Selected Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis book is an introduction to the role played by Spanish formal education in providing feminist pedagogies to adolescents and young people, throughout the first two decades of the 21st century. The images of Spanish feminist protests in recent years, with a considerable presence of young girls but also boys, have spread around the world. But what is their relationship with gender-based inequalities? What is the role of formal education in their understanding of social reality? The authors combine a sociological and historical analysis of the social and educational changes that have taken place in Spanish youth during these decades, with a pedagogical orientation towards practice.Table of ContentsContents Abstract Keywords  Introduction  1 Spanish Adolescence and Youth through a Gendered and Feminist Lens  2 An Advanced Country in Gender Equality Legislation  3 Despite the Legislation: Feminist Knowledge in the Educational Curricula  4 Putting Coeducation into Practice: How Schools Can Help Achieve Equality  5 Perspectives  Bibliography

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Book SynopsisYouth studies in Latin America and Spain face numerous challenges. This book delves into youth experiences in the 21st century, shaped by complex and pressing issues: the surge of youth cultures and groups, visual images of youth throughout time, and fragmented youth experiences in radically unequal societies. It analyzes young people as precarious natives in global capitalism and labor uncertainty, juvenicide, feminist discourse, social networks, intimacy and sexual affection among young people in a context of growing claims of gender equality. Also included are rural and indigenous youth as political actors, the actions of young political activists within government administrations, the experience of youth migration and empowerment, and young people dealing with the digital world. How have youth studies approached these issues in Latin America and Spain? Which were the main developments and transformations in this research field over the past years? Where is it heading? Contributors are: Jorge Benedicto, Maritza Urteaga, Dolores Rocca, José Antonio Pérez Islas, Juan Carlos Revilla, Mariano Urraco, Almudena Moreno, Óscar Aguilera, Marcela Saá, Rafael Merino, Ana Miranda, Carles Feixa, Gonzalo Saraví, Antonio Santos-Ortega, David Muñoz-Rodríguez, Arantxa Grau-Muñoz, José Manuel Valenzuela, Silvia Elizalde, Mónica Figueras, Mittzy Arciniega, Nele Hansen, Tanja Strecker, Elisa G. de Castro, Melina Vázquez, René Unda, Daniel Llanos, Sonia Páez de la Torre, Pere Soler, Daniel Calderón, and Stribor Kuric.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors  Introduction Studying Young People’s Lives, Understanding Complex and Diverse Societies   Jorge Benedicto and Maritza Urteaga part 1 Youth Studies in Latin America and Spain: Multiple Perspectives, Multiple Contexts   Jorge Benedicto 1 Game of Glances Review of Youth Research in Latin America   José Antonio Pérez Islas 2 40 Years of Youth Studies in Spain and Their Contribution to Social Images of Youth   Juan Carlos Revilla and Mariano Urraco 3 The Current Theoretical Debates in Comparative Research on Young People A European Perspective   Almudena Moreno 4 Youth Images Visual Images, Representations and Imaginaries of Young People   Óscar Aguilera and Marcela Saá part 2 The Life of Young People in Complex and Unequal Societies   Maritza Urteaga 5 Youth as Transition Theoretical and Methodological Contributions to the Youth Study Field in Latin America and Spain   Rafael Merino and Ana Miranda 6 Youth Cultures and Identities The Surfaces of the Underground   Carles Feixa 7 The Fragmentation of Youth Experience Social Inequality and Everyday Life in Urban Latin America   Gonzalo Saraví 8 Precarious Natives New Profiles of Precarious Young People in the Flexible Economies   Antonio Santos-Ortega, David Muñoz-Rodríguez and Arantxa Grau-Muñoz 9 Iuvenis Sacer The Systematic Murder of Young People in Latin America   José Manuel Valenzuela 10 Gender Relationships and Sexual Affection between Young People Reflections from the Argentine Case   Silvia Elizalde part 3 Diversity and Youth Agency: Young People as Actors in Society   Jorge Benedicto and Dolores Rocca 11 Young Women as Social Actors Participation in Cultural Groups and the Feminist Empowerment of Young People in Catalonia (Spain)   Mònica Figueras, Mittzy Arciniega, Nele Hansen and Tanja Strecker 12 Rural Youth A Political Actor of Social Movements in Brazil and its Impact on Youth Policies   Elisa Guaraná 13 Young Political Activists in Government-Supporting Organizations Argentina from a Regional Perspective   Melina Vázquez and Dolores Rocca 14 Kichwa Indigenous Youth from Ecuador Conditions and Context of their Youth Agency   René Unda and Daniel Llanos 15 Migration and Youth Empowerment The Migration Experience of Young Latin Americans to Catalonia   Sonia Páez de la Torre and Pere Soler 16 Youth in the Digital World Dispositions and Experiences of Internet Use   Daniel Calderón and Stribor Kuric   Afterword Young People and Covid-19: Some Thoughts about a Very Near Future   Jorge Benedicto, Maritza Urteaga and Dolores Rocca Index

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Book SynopsisAfter a 35 year-long career on worldwide TV screens, Lieutenant Columbo has become one of the most famous fictional detectives. Lilian Mathieu shows that the Columbo series owes its success to its implicit but formidable political dimension, as each episode is structured as a class struggle between a rich, famous, cultured or powerful criminal and an apparently humble and blunderer police officer dressed in a crumpled raincoat and driving an antique car. Highlighting the contentious context that gave birth to the series in 1968, he shows that the sociology of culture offers intellectual tools to understand how a TV detective story can be appreciated as a joyful class revenge.Table of ContentsAbstract Keywords  Introduction  1 Class against Class  2 A World of Distinction  3 Superiority in Crime  4 A Sense of Limits  5 A Misplaced Police Officer  6 Police Work  7 Just One More Thing … References  List of Episodes

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Book SynopsisThis collection sheds light on diverse forms of collective engagement among young people. Recent developments in youth studies, and the changing global shape of socio-economic conditions for young people, demand new approaches and ideas. Contributors focus on novel processes, practices and routines within youth collectivity in various contexts across the globe, including Indonesia, Spain, Italy, Norway and Poland. The chapters pay particular attention to transitional phases in the lives of young people. Conceptually, the book also explores the strengths and limitations of a focus on collectivity in youth studies. Ultimately, the book makes the case for a focus on forms of collectivity and engagement to help scholars think through contemporary experiences of shared social life among young people. Contributors are: Duncan Adam, Massimiliano Andretta, Roberta Bracciale, David Cairns, Diego Carbajo Padilla, Enzo Colombo, Valentina Cuzzocrea, Carles Feixa, Ben Gook, Izabela Grabowska, Natalia Juchniewicz, Ewa Krzaklewska, Wolfgang Lehmann, Michelle Mansfield, María Martinez, Ann Nilsen, Rebecca Raby, Paola Rebughini, Birgit Reißig, Bjørn Schiermer, Tabea Schlimbach, Melanie Simms, Benjamín Tejerina, Kristoffer C Vogt, and Natalia Waechter.Table of ContentsList of Figures and Tables Notes on Contributors 1 Bringing Together Forms of Collective Engagement in Youth Transitions  Processes, Practices and Theoretical Perspectives   Valentina Cuzzocrea, Ben Gook and Bjørn Schiermer PART 1 Forms of Collective Engagement in (Un)employment, (Lack of) Work, Collaborative Practices 2 Transition Companions.  The Role of Peers in German School-to-Work Transitions   Tabea Schlimbach and Birgit Reißig 3 Early Teen-Work Assemblages and Embedded Dependence   Rebecca Raby and Wolfgang Lehmann 4 Precarious Solidarities  Unions, Young Workers and Representative Claims   Melanie Simms and Duncan Adam PART 2 Youth Collectivities and Transformed Public Space 5 The Lonjas in the Basque Country  New Forms of Collectivity in Precarious Times   Diego Carbajo, María Martínez and Benjamín Tejerina 6 Collective Individualism  Practices of Youth Collectivity within a Graffiti Community in Yogyakarta, Indonesia   Michelle Mansfield 7 ‘There Is No Me, There Is Only Us’  The Erasmus Bubble as a Transient Form of Transnational Collectivity   Valentina Cuzzocrea, Ewa Krzaklewska and David Cairns PART 3 Youth Collectivities in Forging Youth Identities through New Media 8 Young Italians, NEETs and Political Engagement  Any Good News?   Massimiliano Andretta and Roberta Bracciale 9 Gendered Social Media Cultures between Individuality and Collectivity   Natalia Waechter 10 The Assisting Collectivities of Young Migrants and Nonmigrants via New Media   Natalia Juchniewicz and Izabela Grabowska PART 4 Forms of Collective Engagement in Reshaping Subjectivities 11 The Taken-for-Granted in Intergenerational Processes during Youth Transitions  Exploring Intersections of Gender, Class and Historical Period   Ann Nilsen and Kristoffer Chelsom Vogt 12 Connecting Individualisations  Towards a New Generational Collective Action   Enzo Colombo and Paola Rebughini  Afterword   Carles Feixa Index

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Book SynopsisYouth studies in Latin America and Spain face numerous challenges. This book delves into youth experiences in the 21st century, shaped by complex and pressing issues: the surge of youth cultures and groups, visual images of youth throughout time, and fragmented youth experiences in radically unequal societies. It analyzes young people as precarious natives in global capitalism and labor uncertainty, juvenicide, feminist discourse, social networks, intimacy and sexual affection among young people in a context of growing claims of gender equality. Also included are rural and indigenous youth as political actors, the actions of young political activists within government administrations, the experience of youth migration and empowerment, and young people dealing with the digital world. How have youth studies approached these issues in Latin America and Spain? Which were the main developments and transformations in this research field over the past years? Where is it heading? Contributors are: Jorge Benedicto, Maritza Urteaga, Dolores Rocca, José Antonio Pérez Islas, Juan Carlos Revilla, Mariano Urraco, Almudena Moreno, Óscar Aguilera, Marcela Saá, Rafael Merino, Ana Miranda, Carles Feixa, Gonzalo Saraví, Antonio Santos-Ortega, David Muñoz-Rodríguez, Arantxa Grau-Muñoz, José Manuel Valenzuela, Silvia Elizalde, Mónica Figueras, Mittzy Arciniega, Nele Hansen, Tanja Strecker, Elisa G. de Castro, Melina Vázquez, René Unda, Daniel Llanos, Sonia Páez de la Torre, Pere Soler, Daniel Calderón, and Stribor Kuric.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors  Introduction Studying Young People’s Lives, Understanding Complex and Diverse Societies   Jorge Benedicto and Maritza Urteaga part 1 Youth Studies in Latin America and Spain: Multiple Perspectives, Multiple Contexts   Jorge Benedicto 1 Game of Glances Review of Youth Research in Latin America   José Antonio Pérez Islas 2 40 Years of Youth Studies in Spain and Their Contribution to Social Images of Youth   Juan Carlos Revilla and Mariano Urraco 3 The Current Theoretical Debates in Comparative Research on Young People A European Perspective   Almudena Moreno 4 Youth Images Visual Images, Representations and Imaginaries of Young People   Óscar Aguilera and Marcela Saá part 2 The Life of Young People in Complex and Unequal Societies   Maritza Urteaga 5 Youth as Transition Theoretical and Methodological Contributions to the Youth Study Field in Latin America and Spain   Rafael Merino and Ana Miranda 6 Youth Cultures and Identities The Surfaces of the Underground   Carles Feixa 7 The Fragmentation of Youth Experience Social Inequality and Everyday Life in Urban Latin America   Gonzalo Saraví 8 Precarious Natives New Profiles of Precarious Young People in the Flexible Economies   Antonio Santos-Ortega, David Muñoz-Rodríguez and Arantxa Grau-Muñoz 9 Iuvenis Sacer The Systematic Murder of Young People in Latin America   José Manuel Valenzuela 10 Gender Relationships and Sexual Affection between Young People Reflections from the Argentine Case   Silvia Elizalde part 3 Diversity and Youth Agency: Young People as Actors in Society   Jorge Benedicto and Dolores Rocca 11 Young Women as Social Actors Participation in Cultural Groups and the Feminist Empowerment of Young People in Catalonia (Spain)   Mònica Figueras, Mittzy Arciniega, Nele Hansen and Tanja Strecker 12 Rural Youth A Political Actor of Social Movements in Brazil and its Impact on Youth Policies   Elisa Guaraná 13 Young Political Activists in Government-Supporting Organizations Argentina from a Regional Perspective   Melina Vázquez and Dolores Rocca 14 Kichwa Indigenous Youth from Ecuador Conditions and Context of their Youth Agency   René Unda and Daniel Llanos 15 Migration and Youth Empowerment The Migration Experience of Young Latin Americans to Catalonia   Sonia Páez de la Torre and Pere Soler 16 Youth in the Digital World Dispositions and Experiences of Internet Use   Daniel Calderón and Stribor Kuric   Afterword Young People and Covid-19: Some Thoughts about a Very Near Future   Jorge Benedicto, Maritza Urteaga and Dolores Rocca Index

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Book SynopsisIn China, a process of compressed socialization of youth is characterized by multiple spatial, professional and social mobilities. Young skilled Chinese move and circulate to improve their qualification and education levels in order to develop upward social mobility’s trajectories. Young low-skilled migrants’ biographic pathways are structured around spatial discontinuities and horizontal social mobilities. In labor markets, the phenomenon of structural disqualification impacts young Chinese and the risk of downward social mobility has affected the young middle-class. Platforms appear as new spaces of commodification and subordination that produce a cybertariat. In Chinese mega-cities, social inequalities and urban boundaries do promote segregation and marginalization, while at the same time, young Chinese entrepreneurs are developing international networks and economic cosmopolitanism. Chinese youth are crossing transnational spaces wherein identities are redefined through a process of cultural creolization.Table of ContentsContents Abstract Keywords  Introduction  1 Sociology of Youth in China: Theoretical and Methodological Issues  2 Chinese Youth and Migration  3 Youth and Education in China  4 Youth and Chinese Family  5 Youth and Urban Life in China  6 Chinese Youth, Labor and the Search for Respect  7 Youth and Digital Life in China Conclusion Bibliography

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Book SynopsisJust pronounce the word “manga” and conflicted representations of media reception emerge: either passive teenagers immersed in Japanese fictional worlds, or hyperactive fans. To understand what drives a variety of teenagers to read manga, we conducted empirical research among French readers enrolled in secondary schools. Manga is part of a whole constellation of interests, including music and digital technology. It is also the object of analytical, ethical or concrete appropriations. Reading then becomes a way to deal with past experiences and to connect with others, to learn how to express emotions and to assert (or contest) age and gender norms.Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments List of Tables and Graphs Introduction 1 What Is Manga?  1 “One Thousand Years of Manga” or “Sixty Years of Manga”? Definitions and Search for Origins  2 Production Process and Manga Specificities  2.1 The Effect of the Production Process  2.2 The Categorization of Readers  2.2.1 Targeting Readers  2.2.2 Age and Gender Group: Segmentation and Hybridization  2.3 The Rise of the Manga Cultural Industry in Japan  2.4 Manga Spread and Reception in France: From Media Panic to Recognition  3 Mapping the French Manga Market  3.1 Field Structuring  3.1.1 Today’s Publishers  3.2 Outcome 2 A Reading Practice Embedded in the Youth Culture  1 A Reading Embedded in Teenagers’ Schedules  1.1 Reading Easy and Practical  1.2 Reading in Various Contexts  1.3 Reading and Rereading  2 A Reading Practice Embedded in the “Youth Culture” Constellation  2.1 Cartoons  2.2 The Digital Era  2.3 Music  2.4 The Fantastic and the Sentimental  2.5 Reading and the Book  3 Friendship Networks  3.1 Exchange Networks  3.2 Discussing Manga  3.3 A Way of Connecting with Others  4 Manga-Related Hobbies  4.1 Drawing: A Mixed-Gender Activity  4.2 Girls: Cosplay and Fanfiction  4.2.1 Cosplays  4.2.2 Fanfictions  4.3 Anime Music Videos and Role Playing Games (amv and rpg)  4.4 Blogs  5 Readers’ Careers  5.1 Discovering Manga  5.2 High School as a Confirmation  5.3 Turning Points and Career Endings 3 Reading Manga  1 Entertainment  1.1 Enjoyment  1.2 Escapism  1.3 Laughing: A Serious Matter  1.3.1 Burlesque and Situational Comedy: A Comic Pattern of “Degradation”  1.3.2 Nonsense and Absurd  1.3.3 Comedies in a School Setting: Satire and the Subversion of Authority  1.3.4 Humor in Coming-of-Age Comedies: Comical Variations on Romantic and Sexual Relationships  1.3.5 Plays on Words  1.4 … and Crying  2 Relatability  2.1 The Various Facets of Identification: Admiring  2.2 Recognizing Oneself  2.3 Ethical Receptions  2.4 Seeking Comfort  3 Right Age, Right Gender, Right Manners  3.1 The Role of Age and Generations  3.2 Age Matters  4 Getting One’s Gender Straight: Boys, Fist Fights and Little Nana Girls  4.1 Boys and “Beating”  4.2 Diverse Models of Masculinity: Intelligence, Psychology, and Emotions  4.3 The Little Nana Girls  5 Growing Up with Manga: Practical Uses  5.1 Seeds of Knowledge  5.2 Seeds of Life 4 In Search of Lost Legitimacy  1 Conflicted Dispositions  1.1 Parents, Teachers and Friends  1.2 Internalization  2 Fans in Their Own Words: Self-Portraits  2.1 Not Being a Fan  2.2 Being a Fan  3 “Scholarly” Readings  3.1 Reading as a Meticulous Task  3.2 Reading Skills Conclusion Appendix 1 Glossary: The Manga and Japanese Animation Universe Appendix 2 The Manga Readers Interviewed and Their Characteristics Appendix 3 Summaries of Some Manga Titles by Those Who Read Them Appendix 4 Graphs and Tables about Manga Publishing in France Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisJapanese youth, like everywhere else, are trying to build their future despite the crises that are shaking their world, the latest being the triple disaster of Fukushima. Often considered to be more focused on a personal or even hedonistic life, they surprised the media when a student movement took the floor to criticize the Abe government's security and Self-Defense Forces bills in 2015. The so-called SEALDs movement (Student Emergency Action for Liberal Democracy) was formed some time after the Indigenous or Occupy Wall Street movements, but it shares similar concerns. Understanding the SEALDs' experience from the perspective of John Dewey's philosophy allows us to highlight once again the dangers that digital technology poses to individuals, the collective and their values.Table of ContentsA Note on Japanese Terms Abstract Keywords  Introduction: SEALDs in the Protest Movement Landscape  Part 1: The Wheels Come Off  1 Social Upheaval  2 Japanese Youth and the Crisis  Part 2: The SEALDs Movement  3 Influential Factors  4 Learning by Doing  5 SEALDs in the Japanese Political Landscape  Conclusion: What Next after SEALDs?  Appendix 1: Unusual Backgrounds of the First Students to Join SEALDs  Appendix 2: Timeline of the SEALDs Movement  Appendix 3: The SEALDs Manifesto  Bibliography

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Book SynopsisAre artistic engagements evolving, or attracting more attention? The range of artistic protest actions shows how the globalisation of art is also the globalisation of art politics. Here, based on multi-site field research, we follow artists from the MENA countries, Latin America, and Africa along their committed transnational trajectories, whether these are voluntary or the result of exile. With this global and decentred approach, the different repertoires of engagement appear, in all their dimensions, including professional ones. In the face of political disillusionment, these aesthetic interventions take on new meanings, as artivists seek alternative modes of social transformation and production of shared values. Contributors are: Alice Aterianus-Owanga, Sébastien Boulay, Sarah Dornhof, Simon Dubois, Shyam Iskander, Sabrina Melenotte, Franck Mermier, Rayane Al Rammal, Kirsten Scheid, Pinar Selek, and Marion Slitine. The Global Politics of Artistic Engagement: Beyond the Arab Uprisings is now available in paperback for individual customers.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Introduction: Repertoires of Engagement in Motion  Pénélope Larzillière Part 1: Moving Repertoires of Engagement 1 Creating a Syrian Culture in Exile: The Reconfigurations of Engagement  Franck Mermier 2 The “Metamorphoses of the Political” in the Contemporary Art of Palestinian Post-Oslo Generation  Marion Slitine 3 Transnationalizing the Repertoires of Action: A Comparative View of African Rappers’ Engagements in Motion  Alice Aterianus-Owanga 4 Digital Artivism in Movement: The 2019 Lebanese Uprising’s Art on Instagram  Rayane al-Rammal Part 2: Artistic Visibilities and Political Circulations, in Diaspora 5 Presence and International Journeys of Engaged West Saharan Singers  Sébastien Boulay 6 Young Documentary Theatre on Syrian Stages: An Aesthetic of Circulation, Exile, and Engagement  Simon Dubois 7 Anatolian Musicians in Europe: Creation, Political Engagement, Transformation  Pinar Selek Part 3: Contest and Critique, in a Globalizing World 8 Palestinian Art Talk: A Local Lexicon for Global Art Production  Kirsten Scheid 9 Fictions of the Contemporary: The Shifting Spaces of the Marrakech Biennale  Sarah Dornhof 10 Focus on the Bahraini Art Scene: Centralization Processes and Social Engagement  Shyam Iskander 11 Embodying Absence: Remembering Mexico’s Missing Persons through Art  Sabrina Melenotte Index

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Book SynopsisLen Sperry, PhD, MD, is Professor of Counselor Education at Florida Atlantic University, USA.

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