Youth, Inequality and Social Change in the Global South

by Hernan Cuervo (Editor), Ana Miranda (Editor)

Overview

This book gathers international and interdisciplinary work on youth studies from the Global South, exploring issues such as continuity and change in youth transitions from education to work; contemporary debates on the impact of mobility, marginalization and violence on young lives; how digital technologies shape youth experiences; and how different institutions, cultures and structures generate a diversity of experiences of what it means to be young. The book is divided into four broad thematic sections: (a) Education, work and social structure; (b) Identity and belonging; (c) Place, mobilities and marginalization; and (d) Power, social conflict and new forms of political participation of youth.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789811337499
Publisher:	Springer Nature Singapore
Publication date:	02/25/2019
Series:	Perspectives on Children and Young People , #6
Edition description:	1st ed. 2019
Pages:	268
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x (d)

About the Author

Hernán Cuervo is an Associate Professor in the Melbourne Graduate School of Education and Deputy Director of the Youth Research Centre, at the University of Melbourne. His research interests focus on sociology of youth, specifically in relation to youth transitions; rural education and rural young people, focusing on the tension of aspirations and belonging; and theory of justice applied to educational and youth issues.

Ana Miranda is a researcher at the National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET) and a professor at the University of Buenos Aires. She is the leader of Grammar of Youth Longitudinal Research Program and run a postgraduate program on youth in Latin America in FLACSO Argentina. Her research and teaching are related to youth, education, inequality and labour. She is currently the Deputy President of RC 34 of the International Sociology Association (ISA) for the period 2018-2022.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Youth in the Global South: Transitions, Diversity & Inequality.- Chapter 2: Beyond the Nizam: Youth political practices in Egypt and Tunisia after the 2011 uprisings.- Chapter 3: Place, mobility and youth transitions in Indonesia.- Chapter 4: Youth, violence and subjectivities: art as resource and bond.- Chapter 5: Youth engagement In Jerusalem: Between the Palestinian youth organizations development strategies and the Israeli colonial policies.- Chapter 6: Young people’s constitutional submissions in Fiji: opportunities and challenges.- Chapter 7: Intergenerational Transmission of Poverty: Exploring Subjective Well-Being, Hurdles, Risks, Shocks, and Resilience Amongst Youth in India.- Chapter 8: Social Class Reproduction amongst upper middle class in Mexico.- Chapter 9: Femininity in Everyday Life: Experiences of Malay and Indian Women in Malaysia.

Editorial Reviews

The work represents a contribution to research on the theme of participation but, above all, it outlines a clear gap between traditional forms of involvement … . this volume has the merit of providing us with a new in­terpretative paradigm of young people from the South of the world through the formulation of analytical categories that distance themselves from an a-contextual and often stereotyped theoretical analysis of the lives of young people.” (Mauro Giardiello, Youth and Globalization, Vol. 1 (2), 2019)

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