ISBN:
9789400748576
,
1283698072
,
9781283698078
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (XXV, 218 p. 7 illus, digital)
Series Statement:
Explorations of Educational Purpose 25
Series Statement:
SpringerLink
Series Statement:
Bücher
Parallel Title:
Buchausg. u.d.T.
Keywords:
Anthropology
;
Education
;
Education
;
Anthropology
;
Erziehung
;
Anthropologie
Abstract:
This invaluable addition to Springer’s Explorations of Educational Purpose series is a revelatory ethnographic account of the visual material culture of contemporary youths in North America. The author’s detailed study follows apparently dissimilar groups (black and Latino/a in a New York City after-school club, and white and Indigenous in a small Canadian community) as they inflect their nascent identities with a sophisticated sense of visual material culture in today’s globalized world. It provides detailed proof of how much ethnography can add to what we know about young people’s development, in addition to its potential as a model to explore new and significant avenues in pedagogy.Supported by a wealth of ethnographic evidence, the analysis tracks its subjects’ responses to strikingly diverse material ranging from autobiographical accounts by rap artists to the built environment. It shows how young people from the world’s cultural epicenter, just like their counterparts in the sub-Arctic, construct racial, geographic and gender identities in ways that are subtly responsive to what they see around them, blending localized characteristics with more widely shared visual references that are now universally accessible through the Web. The work makes a persuasive case that youthful engagement with visual material culture is a relational and productive activity that is simultaneously local and global, at once constrained and enhanced by geography, and possesses a potent and life-affirming authenticity. Densely interwoven with young people’s perspectives, the author’s account sets out an innovative and interdisciplinary conceptual framework affording fresh insights into how today’s youth assimilate what they perceive to be significant.
Description / Table of Contents:
Youth Identities, Localities, and Visual Material Culture; Preface; References; Acknowledgements; Contents; List of Boxes; List of Figures; List of Tables; Permissions; Chapter 1: Telling Stories, Forging Links, and Researching Lives; Telling Stories; Forging Links; Locality and the Global Postmodern; Researching Lives; A 'New' Multi-sited Ethnography; A Visual-Based Ethnography; Representing Youth; Aims and Overview of the Book; References; Chapter 2: Understanding Youth Culture, Visual Material Culture, and Local Places; Introduction; Non-relational and Relational Visual Art Education
Description / Table of Contents:
Youth and Popular CultureYouth Culture Approaches; Local Youth Culture Approaches; Conceptualising Culture, Locality, and Identity; Reconstructive Postmodernism; A Sociocultural Approach; Cultural Artefacts and Mediated Action; A Relational Understanding: Locality, Identity, Culture; Conclusion; References; Chapter 3: Multi-sites: New York City, USA, and Yukon Territory, Canada; Introduction; New York City and Hope After-School Club, 2005-2006; Yukon Territory and Barlow, 2006; Conclusion; References; Chapter 4: Representin' Place: Place-Making and Place-Based Identities; Introduction
Description / Table of Contents:
Early Days at the HopePlace-Making; '[I]n New York it's all about the hip-hop': Constructing New York; Making the Boroughs; 'My Neighbor-HOOD': The 'Hood and the Ghetto; 'In Puerto Rico You Just Go Free': Constructing Homeland; Place-Based Identities; 'You gotta represent': Expressing (and Creating)Place-Based Identities; Imagined Places, Imagined Selves; References; Chapter 5: (Re)constructing Race: Racial Identities and the Borders of Race; Introduction; Constructing Racial Identities; 'Oh, I'll never be that white': Constructing White Identities
Description / Table of Contents:
'Everything about me is black': Constructing Black Identities'[Y]ou need to speak Spanish to be Spanish': Constructing Latina/Latino Identities; Maintaining and Reworking Racial Borders; 'You wanna say the n-word, you gonna get popped': Maintaining the Borders; Constructing Authenticity; 'Like a black rican, a blackarican': Reworking Borders; Racial Spaces, Racial Selves; References; Chapter 6: Negotiating Gender: Gender Narratives and Gender Identities; Introduction; Conceptualising Gender and Gender Narratives; Gender Narratives at the Hope: Gangstas, Girlie Girls, and Tomboys
Description / Table of Contents:
'Rappers Are All Gangstas': Making Sense of Gangstas'Paris Hilton is the queen of the girlie girls': Making Sense of Girlie Girls; 'Missy Elliot, she has it going on, like she a tomboy': Making Sense of Tomboys; Localising and Using Narratives; Negotiating Gender Identities; '[W]hy do you gotta go around with guns in your pocket instead of using your fists?': Negotiating Masculinities; Toughness; Survival; Community, Friends, and Family; Talent; 'Good girls gotta get down with the gangstas': Negotiating Femininities; Self-Respect; Respecting Your Body; Self-Control and Choice; Heterosexuality
Description / Table of Contents:
Individuality
Description / Table of Contents:
Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Part I Contemporary Youth, VMC, and Local Place -- Chapter 1 Telling stories, forging links, researching lives -- Chapter 2 Understanding youth culture, visual material culture, and local places -- Chapter 3. Multi-sites: New York City, USA, and Yukon Territory, Canada -- Part II Making place, race, and gender: Ethnographic illustrations, From New York City and Yukon, Canada -- Chapter 4 Representin’ place: Place-making and place-based identities -- Chapter 5 (Re)constructing race: Racial identities, and the borders of race -- Chapter 6 Negotiating Gender: Gender Narratives and gender identities -- Chapter 7 Northern Landscapes: Place- and identity-making in northern Canada -- Part III Education in the context of visual material culture -- Chapter 8: Theoretical, methodological, and pedagogical possibilities -- Appendices -- Index..
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DOI:
10.1007/978-94-007-4857-6
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