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Keywords in Youth Studies

Tracing Affects, Movements, Knowledges

Edited by Nancy Lesko, Susan Talburt

Published August 4th 2011 by Routledge – 350 pages

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With recent attention to issues such as youth social exclusion, poverty, school underachievement, school violence, gang activity, sexuality, and youth’s interactions with media and the internet, youth studies has emerged as a significant interdisciplinary field. It has moved beyond its roots in subcultural studies to encompass a diverse array of disciplines, subfields, and theoretical orientations. Yet no volume exists that systematically presents and puts into dialogue the field’s areas of focus and approaches to research.

As a unique blend of reference guide, conceptual dictionary, and critical assessment, Keywords in Youth Studies presents and historicizes the "state of the field." It offers theoretically-informed analysis of key concepts, and points to possibilities for youth studies’ reconstruction. Contributors include internationally-renowned field experts who trace the origins, movements, and uses and meanings of "keywords" such as resistance, youth violence, surveillance, and more. The blending of section essays with focused keywords offers beginning and advanced readers multiple points of entry into the text and connections across concepts. A must-read for graduate students, faculty, and researchers across a range of disciplines, this extraordinary new book promotes new interdisciplinary approaches to youth research and advocacy.

Contents

An Introduction to Seven Technologies of Youth Studies, Susan Talburt and Nancy Lesko

Section I: A History of the Present of Youth Studies, Susan Talburt and Nancy Lesko

  1. Biology/Nature, Elizabeth Seaton

  2. (Dis)ability, Beth A. Ferri

  3. Juvenile Justice, Erica Meiners

  4. Leisure, Carles Feixa

  5. Middle School, Julie McLeod

  6. School-to-Work Transition, Meg Maguire and Stephen J. Ball

  7. Surveillance, Rachel Oppenheim

    8. Section II: Research and Regulation of Knowledge, Thomas S. Popkewitz

  8. Commodification, Lisa Weems

  9. Culture, Mikko Salasuo and Tommi Hoikkala

  10. Ethnographies, Wanda S. Pillow

  11. Histories, Andrew J. Reisinger

  12. Peer Groups, Johanna Wyn

  13. Transnational Governance Organizations, Noah W. Sobe

    14. Section III: Populational Reasoning, Gordon Tait

  14. Age, Yen Yen Woo

  15. Disorderly, Valerie Harwood

  16. Generation, Cindy Patton

  17. Resistance, Elizabeth Soep

  18. Subculture, Martha Marín Caicedo

  19. Trans, Alejondro Venegas-Steele

    20. Section IV: Citizenship Stories, Anita Harris

  20. Democracy, Benjamin Baez

  21. Hijab, Amira Jarmakani

  22. Human Rights, Julie Kubala

  23. Mall, Carolyn Vander Schee

  24. Nation, Rupa Huq

  25. Postcolonial, Aaron Koh and Allan Luke

  26. Sex Education, Mary Louise Rasmussen

    27. Section V: Mobilities and the Transnationalization of Youth Cultures, Fazal Rizvi

  27. Health, Emma Rich

  28. Immigrant, Claudia Matus

  29. Internet, Lori B. MacIntosh, Stuart Poyntz, and Mary K. Bryson

  30. Musicking, Julian Henriques

  31. Sexuality, Mary Jane Kehily

  32. TV and Film, Bill Osgerby

    33. Section VI: Everyday Exceptions: Geographies of Social Imaginaries, Sunaina Maira

  33. Cultural Production, John Broughton

  34. Hybridity, Pam Nilan

  35. Safe Spaces, M. Piper Dumont

  36. Street Children, Rob Pattman

  37. Style, Kristen Luschen

  38. Youth Violence, Todd R. Ramlow

    39. Section VII: Enchantment, Nancy Lesko and Susan Talburt

  39. The Erotic, Jen Gilbert

  40. Innocence, Elizabeth Marshall

  41. NGOs, Dana Burde

  42. Nostalgia, Kaoru Miyazawa

  43. Teacher Movies, Rebecca Stanko

  44. Youth Activism, Noel S. Anderson

  45. Youth Participatory Action Research, Michelle Fine

Author Bio

Nancy Lesko is Professor of Education and Maxine Greene Chair at Teachers College, Columbia University.

Susan Talburt is Director and Associate Professor of Women’s Studies at Georgia State University.

Name: Keywords in Youth Studies: Tracing Affects, Movements, Knowledges (Paperback) – Routledge 
Description: Edited by Nancy Lesko, Susan Talburt. With recent attention to issues such as youth social exclusion, poverty, school underachievement, school violence, gang activity, sexuality, and youth’s interactions with media and the internet, youth studies has emerged as a significant...
Categories: Sociology of Education, Childhood - Anthropology, Youth Culture