Youth, Space and Time: Agoras and Chronotopes in the Global City

This book engages with the experience of space and time in youth cultures across the world. Putting together contemporary case studies on young transnationalists, young glocals and young protesters in cities on the five continents, it analyzes new agoras and chronotopes in global cities. It is based on a selection of papers first presented to the International Sociological Association (ISA) Research Committee 34 session on Youth Cultures, Space and Time that took place during the ISA World Congresses of Sociology in Gothenburg, Sweden (2010), and in Yokohama, Japan (2014). The value of this volume for youth researchers worldwide is twofold. Firstly, the chapters exemplify innovative approaches to understanding the fluid and dynamic urban space-time dimension in which young people’s cultural and bodily practices are located. Secondly, the volume offers a transnational perspective. Chapter contributors come from countries across the world, and give account of very diverse youth culture phenomena. They represent both established researchers and new voices in youth research.

Contributors are: Óscar Aguilera Ruiz, Ilenya Camozzi, Carles Feixa, Vitor Sérgio Ferreira, Liliana Galindo Ramírez, Elham Golpoush-Nezhad, Leila Jeolás, Jeffrey J. Juris, Hagen Kordes, Sofia Laine, Carmen Leccardi, Pam Nilan, Jordi Nofre, Ndukaeze Nwabueze, Luca Queirolo Palmas, Yannis Pechtelidis, Geoffrey Pleyers, José Sánchez García, Mahmood Shahabi.

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Carles Feixa is Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Lleida (Catalonia-Spain). He is the author of several books including De jovenes, bandas y tribus (On Youth, Gangs and Tribes, Ariel, 1998, 5th edition 2012), and Global Youth? Hybrid Identities, Plural Worlds (edited with Pam Nilan, Routledge, 2006).

Carmen Leccardi is Professor of Cultural Sociology at the University of Milano-Bicocca (Italy). Her latest books include Sociologie del tempo (Sociologies of Time, Laterza, 2009) and A New Youth? Young People, Generations and Family Life (edited with Elisabetta Ruspini, Ashgate, 2006).

Pam Nilan is Professor of Sociology at the University of Newcastle (Australia). She has published three books on youth: Global Youth? Hybrid Identities, Plural Worlds (edited with Carles Feixa, Routledge, 2006), Australian Youth (Pearson, 2007), and Adolescents in Contemporary Indonesia (with L. Parker, Routledge, 2013).