Youth Cultures, Transitions, and Generations : Bridging the Gap in Youth Research

Within contemporary youth research there are two dominant streams - a 'transitions' and a 'cultures' perspective. This collection shows that it is no longer possible to understand the experience of young people through these prisms and proposes new conceptual foundations for youth studies, capable of bridging the gap between these approaches. Front Matter....Pages i-xv Cultures, Transitions, and Generations: The Case for a New Youth Studies....Pages 1-15 Transitions, Cultures, and Identities: What Is Youth Studies?....Pages 16-27 Complex Worlds, Complex Identities: Complexity in Youth Studies....Pages 28-41 ‘Speaking of Youth Culture’: A Critical Analysis of Contemporary Youth Cultural Practice....Pages 42-55 Generations, Transitions, and Culture as Practice: A Temporal Approach to Youth Studies....Pages 56-68 Waiting for the Weekend? Nightlife Studies and the Convergence of Youth Transition and Youth Cultural Analyses....Pages 69-83 Transitions, Cultures, and Citizenship: Interrogating and Integrating Youth Studies in New Times....Pages 84-98 Bourdieurian Cultural Transitions: Young People Negotiating ‘Fields’ in Their Pathways into and Out of Crime....Pages 99-112 Sexy Selfies of the Transitioning Self....Pages 113-126 Transitioning to a New Manhood: Subcultures as Sites of Inclusive Masculinity....Pages 127-141 Youth Political Subjectivity in the Global South: Crossing Conceptual Boundaries in Less Examined Contexts....Pages 142-156 Applying Theoretical Paradigms to Indonesian Youth in Reflexive Modernity....Pages 157-170 Toward a Different Youth Studies: Youth-and-Researchers as Affective Assemblages....Pages 171-185 Transitions, Cultures, and the Future of Youth Research....Pages 186-191 Back Matter....Pages 192-195 "Within the diversity of contemporary youth research there are two dominant streams that can be categorized under the broad headings of 'transitions' and 'cultures' perspectives. This collection sets forth a challenge to youth studies, with the contributors arguing that social change means it is no longer possible to understand the experience of young people through this transitions/cultures prism. The future of youth studies, it is argued, will require new conceptual foundations, capable of bridging the gap between transitions and cultures approaches to researching youth. The chapters, including contributions from some of the most established names in contemporary youth studies, draw on a wide variety of alternative concepts, including generation, assemblage, field and belonging to rethink how the study of young lives should be pursued in the coming decades."-- Provided by publisher