Youth cultures in the age of global media 2014

## Index vi Contents vii Acknowledgements Most of the chapters in this book were originally presented as papers at a series of seminars entitled 'Rethinking Youth Cultures in the Age of Global Media', which ran between 2009 and 2011. We gratefully acknowledge the funding provided by the UK Economic and Social Research Council. We would also like to recognize the contributions of the many other academics and practitioners who presented papers or acted as 'discussants' at these seminars, including Shaku Banaji, Barbie Front Matter....Pages i-xii Introduction: Rethinking Youth Cultures in the Age of Global Media....Pages 1-18 Front Matter....Pages 19-19 ‘What Time Is Now?’: Researching Youth and Culture beyond the ‘Birmingham School’....Pages 21-36 Youth and Globalization: Changing Trajectories of Culture and Politics....Pages 37-52 Historicize This! Contextualism in Youth Media Studies....Pages 53-68 Front Matter....Pages 69-69 ‘My Whole Life Is Here’: Tracing Journeys through ‘Skinhead’....Pages 71-87 From Local Gangs to Global Tribes: The Latin Kings and Queens Nation in Catalonia....Pages 88-103 Dissenting Citizenship: South Asian Muslim Youth in the United States after 9/11....Pages 104-118 Front Matter....Pages 119-119 Looking East: Young Koreans Consuming Japanese Media in the Intra-Asian Youthscape....Pages 121-135 Learning to Act Your Age: ‘Age Imaginaries’ and Media Consumption in an English Secondary School....Pages 136-149 Charver Kids and Pram-face Girls: Working-Class Youth, Representation and Embodied Performance....Pages 150-165 Front Matter....Pages 167-167 Youth Media and Its Global Digital Afterlife....Pages 169-185 Claiming Content and Constructing Users: User-generated Content and BBC Blast....Pages 186-201 Selling Youth: The Paradoxical Empowerment of the Young Consumer....Pages 202-221 Front Matter....Pages 223-223 Youth Citizenship beyond Consensus: Examining the Role of Satire and Humour for Critical Engagements in Citizenship Education....Pages 225-241 ‘I Matter and so Does She’: Girl Power, (Post)feminism and the Girl Effect....Pages 242-257 Politics, Identity, Representation and UK Asian Suburban Youth: Voices from the Margins....Pages 258-272 Conclusion: Elusive ‘Youth’....Pages 273-287 Back Matter....Pages 288-297 This book explores the impact of globalisation and new technologies on youth cultures around the world, from the Birmingham School to the youthscapes of South Korea. In a timely reappraisal of youth cultures in contemporary times, this collection profiles the best of new research in youth studies written by leading scholars in the field. This book provides a timely reappraisal of youth cultures in contemporary times. From the Birmingham School to the youthscapes of South Korea, this unique collection explores the impact of globalization and new technologies on youth cultures in contrasting geographic locations. Drawing on international examples of youth cultural formations in the UK, the USA, Russia, Spain, South Korea and India, the book profiles the best of new research in youth studies written by leading scholars in the field. Acknowledging the past to explore the present, the book is a landmark publication in the rich history of research on the expressive cultures of young people, reframing 'resistance' and 'ritual' to offer fresh insights into the meaning and significance of youth cultures on a global stage