ISBN:
978-1-934691-05-2
Language:
English
Pages:
XI, 302 Seiten
,
Illustrationen
Edition:
First edition
Series Statement:
School for Advanced Research Advanced Seminar Series [81]
Keywords:
Kind Kindheit
;
Jugend
;
Soziale Bedingungen
;
Verhalten, menschliches
;
Psychologie
;
Globalisierung
;
Initiation
;
Erwachsener
;
Jugendlicher
;
Kulturvergleich
Abstract:
Child laborers in South Asia, child soldiers in Sierra Leone and Uganda, Chinese youth playing computer games to earn virtual gold, youth involved in sex trafficking in the former Soviet republics and Thailand: these are just some of the young people featured in the news of late. The idea that young people are more malleable and the truisms that "youth are the future" or "children are our hope for the future" give news stories and scholarly accounts added meaning. To address how and why youth and children have come to seem so important to globalization, the contributors to this book look at the both the spatial relations and the temporal dimensions of globalization in places as far apart as Oakland, California, and Tamatave, Madagascar, in situations as disparate as the idealization of childhood innocence and the brutal lives of street children. Discourses of, and practices by, youth and children, from the design of toys to political mobilization, are critical sites through which people everywhere conceive of, produce, contest, and naturalize the new futures. (Umschlagtext)
Description / Table of Contents:
Introduction : globalization and the temporality of children and youth / Jennifer Cole and Deborah Durham -- Childhood and youth as an American/global experience in the context of the past / Paula S. Fass -- Imagining global futures in China : the child as a sign of value / Ann Anagnost -- "The Chinese girls" and "The Poke?mon kids" : children negotiating dfferences in urban California / Barrie Thorne -- Fashioning distinction : youth and consumerism in urban Madagascar / Jennifer Cole -- Private anxieties and public hopes : the perils and promise of youth in the context of globalization / Constance A. Flanagan -- Apathy and agency : the romance of agency and youth in Botswana / Deborah Durham -- Pocket capitalism and virtual intimacy : Poke?mon as symptom of postindustrial youth culture / Anne Allison -- Chronic Mobb asks a blessing : apocalyptic hip-hop and the global crisis / Brad Weiss -- Globalization from way below : Brazilian streets, a youth, and world society / Tobias Hecht.
Note:
Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 261-294"School for Advanced Research advanced seminar Global Comings of Age: Childhood, Youth and Social Re-Generation in a Time of Global Flows, Santa Fe, New Mexcio, April 18-22, 2004" (letzte Seite)Enthält 10 Beiträge
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