Youth moves : identities and education in global perspective
This collection of original essays focuses attention on the actual practices of twenty-first century youth in the brave new world of globalization, addressing the possibilities and dangers of young people's transnational, commodified identities.
Cross-cultural studies
xiv, 241 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
9780415955621, 9780415955638, 9780203938836, 0415955629, 0415955637, 0203938836
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Introduction: youth, mobility, and identity / Nadine Dolby and Fazal Rizvi
New times, new identities
The global corporate curriculum and the young cyberflâneur as global citizen / Jane Kenway and Elizabeth Bullen
Shoot the elephant: antagonistic identities, neo-marxist nostalgia, and the remorselessly vanishing pasts / Cameron McCarthy and Jennifer Logue
New textual worlds: young people and computer games / Catherine Beavis
Diasporic youth: rethinking borders and boundaries in the new modernity
Consuming difference: stylish hybridity, diasporic identity, and the politics of youth culture / Michael D. Giardina
Diasporan moves: African Canadian youth and identity formation / Jennifer Kelly
Popular culture and recognition: narratives of youth and Latinidad / Angharad N. Valdivia
Mobile students in liquid modernity: negotiating the politics of transnational identities / Parlo Singh and Catherine Doherty
Youth and the global context: transforming us where we live
The children of liberalization: youth agency and globalization in India / Ritty Lukose
Youth cultures of consumption in Johannesburg / Sarah Nuttall
Identities for neoliberal times: constructing enterprising selves in an American suburb / Peter Demerath and Jill Lynch
Disciplining "Generation M": the paradox of creating a "local" national identity in an era of "global" flows / Aaron Koh
Marginalization, identity formation, and empowerment: youth's struggles for self and social justice / David Alberto Quijada