1st Edition

Global Youth? Hybrid Identities, Plural Worlds

Edited By Pam Nilan, Carles Feixa Copyright 2006
232 Pages 5 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

230 Pages 5 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

232 Pages 5 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This innovative collection of studies by international youth researchers, critically addresses questions of ‘global’ youth, incorporating material from regions as diverse as Sydney, Tehran, Dakar and Manila, and advancing our knowledge about young people around the globe. Exploring specific local youth cultures whilst mediating global mass media and consumption trends, this book traces subaltern... Read more

Introduction: Youth Hybridity and Plural Worlds  1. European Youth Cultures in a Post Colonial World: British Asian Underground and French Hip-Hop Music Scenes  2. ‘I am English too’: Francophone Youth Hybridities in Canada  3. Ingenious: Emerging Hybrid Youth Cultures in Western Sydney  4. The Social Life of Japan’s Adolechnic  5. The Reflexive Youth Culture of Devout Muslim Youth in Indonesia  6. Youth Subcultures in Post-Revolution Iran: An Alternative Reading  7. Music is the Connection: Youth Cultures in Colombia  8. Tribus Urbanas and Chavos Banda: Being a Punk in Catalonia and Mexico  9. Bboys: Hip-Hop Culture in Dakar, Senegal  10. Global? Local? Multi-Level Identifications among   Contemporary Skinheads in France  Postscript: Global Youth and Transnationalism: The Next Generation

Biography

Pam Nilan is Senior Lecturer in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Newcastle, Australia. She is currently writing a book on Australian youth and is conducting research with youth in Indonesia and Fiji.

Carles Feixa is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Lleida, Spain. His recent books include Culturas Juveniles en Espana (Madrid, 2004) and Jovens na America Latina (Sao Paulo, 2004). He is Vice-President of ISA Research Committee 34 – Sociology of Youth.