ABSTRACT
Written in the spirit of Raymond Williams’s Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society (1983), this chapter introduces the terms that organise the chapters in this collection: youth, technology, governance, and experience. It focuses primarily on ‘youth’, including the overlapping discourses of age, adolescence, the teenager, and generation that both consolidate and complicate normative presumptions about minority, development, maturity, and capacity. Drawing on Foucauldian and feminist perspectives, including those employed across the collection, this introduction also examines the concepts technology, governance, and experience, inflected by consideration of youth and young people.
