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Ingenious: Emerging Hybrid Youth Cultures in Western Sydney
No full textAbout the book: 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 ‘youth landscapes’ and tells subaltern ‘youth stories’ previously invisible in predominantly western youth cultural studies and theorizing. The chapters here serve as a refutation of the colonialist discourse of cultural globalization.
Showcasing previously unpublished youth research from outside the English-speaking world alongside the work of well-known researchers such as Huq and Holden, these accounts of youth cultural practices highlight much that is predictably different, but also a great deal of common ground. This book goes inside creative cultural formation of youth identities to critically examine the global in the local. Bringing together an internationally diverse group of researchers, who describe and analyze youth cultures throughout Europe, the Americas, Asia, Africa and Oceania, this volume presents the first comprehensive review of global youth cultures, practices and identities, and as such is a valuable read for students and researchers of youth studies, cultural studies and sociology
Muslim Youth in the Diaspora: Challenging Extremism through Popular Culture, Pam Nilan, New York : Routledge, 2017
No full textBook review. Pam Nilan’s latest work Muslim Youth in the Diaspora presents a thought-provoking argument around the meta-narrative of radical Islamism. Nilan’s argument is not about the way this narrative oppresses and limits agency, but rather how it is reworked, challenged and taken up by diasporic Muslim youth. The differing relationships to this narrative are placed on a continuum from the near-secular to piety through a range of neo-theo-tribalisms. The latter are theological identity groupings. Nilan examines how these groupings are shaped and remade through a range of competing discourses found in popular culture, in particular a discursive binary of ‘good’ and ‘bad’ Muslim identities
Challenges in Studying Youth and the Influence of Far-Right Populism
No full textThis reflective essay presents some examples of overcoming challenges that can face academic researchers who study young people and far-right populism using qualitative methods. Misogyny and mistrust of elites are common features of far-right populism. Therefore, a challenge lies in the markers of age, gender and institutional status of the researchers themselves, which might prevent rapport from developing between an interviewer and interviewee. Moreover, there is the challenge of the digital generation to be faced in any such investigation. Young people today inhabit a fast-moving world of social media engagement which can be difficult for anyone older to comprehend. Suitably selected young people can assist research endeavours in the role of cultural brokers. Using examples of lived research experience, the author invites reader reflection on attuning research approaches to the lifeworlds of young people, especially young men, who engage with far-right populism
Maskulinitas: culture, gender and politics in Indonesia (book review)
No full textThis volume will primarily attract scholars of Indonesia with an interest in gender. More specifically, it will be useful for those interested in contemporary cultural texts, since it concerns representations of masculinity and gender relations in some contemporary cultural and literary texts produced in Java. On page 13, the key objective of the study is stated: ‘to examine the ways in which cultural transformations and literary developments are constructing new Indonesian masculine identities, with or without recourse to traditional narratives’. At the very start of the book, we meet the revered, elderly, male Indonesian author, Pramoedya Ananta Toer, at the 1998 launch of new, young, female writer Ayu Utami's novel, Saman. This effectively creates the link in the sub-title of the book among culture, gender and politics in Indonesia, since 1998 marked the end of Suharto's ‘New Order’ regime. During the New Order regime, Pramoedya Ananta Toer was imprisoned, narrow gender roles were mandated, and the publication of novels with subversive themes was prohibited. With the fall of Suharto in 1998, the reform era was born, and with it came a flourishing of literary and cultural endeavours, many of which are mentioned by the author
Challenges in Studying Youth and the Influence of Far-Right Populism
No full textThis reflective essay presents some examples of overcoming challenges that can face academic researchers who study young people and far-right populism using qualitative methods. Misogyny and mistrust of elites are common features of far-right populism. Therefore, a challenge lies in the markers of age, gender and institutional status of the researchers themselves, which might prevent rapport from developing between an interviewer and interviewee. Moreover, there is the challenge of the digital generation to be faced in any such investigation. Young people today inhabit a fast-moving world of social media engagement which can be difficult for anyone older to comprehend. Suitably selected young people can assist research endeavours in the role of cultural brokers. Using examples of lived research experience, the author invites reader reflection on attuning research approaches to the lifeworlds of young people, especially young men, who engage with far-right populism
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