ABSTRACT

The collection brings together texts of Brazilian researchers who are dedicated to themes related to studies of youth cultures: social interactions, subcultures, identities and belonging, pop culture, social movements, migration, consumption and materialities, generational exchanges, media representations and digital media, among others.

The objective is to promote a broad dialogue that includes fields of knowledge such as communication and social sciences, as well as local perspectives that represent the huge and rich diversity of the Brazilian regions. At the same time, the book proposes to discuss the reflexivity of such local youth cultures in the face of a global context that challenges, with ruptures and permanencies, the very idea of youth. The book seeks to fill the gap of a selection of scientific texts by Brazilian authors, about Brazilian youth cultures, aimed at foreign researchers.

chapter |6 pages

Introduction

Visiting Brazilian youth paradoxes

part I|47 pages

Brazilian youth, public space and activism

chapter Chapter 1|15 pages

Youth, culture and politics

Societal changes and new conceptual challenges

chapter Chapter 3|17 pages

Ways of living and engaging in the city of São Paulo

Local and global in the narratives and youth practices of the “School of Activism”

part II|52 pages

The “other” youth and the city

chapter Chapter 4|12 pages

Between cultural mediation and urban fences

A study on a group of “it-girls” from Rio

chapter Chapter 5|28 pages

Youth media practices in rurban contexts

Aspects of “Brasil Profundo”

chapter Chapter 6|10 pages

Rebuilding lives

Itinerancies, life projects and field of possibilities of migrant youth in Brazil

part III|61 pages

(In)visibility strategies in youth cultures

chapter Chapter 7|19 pages

Affirmation and visibility between prejudices and stigmas of the young from favelas in Brazil

Let’s talk about the “passinho dance”

chapter Chapter 8|13 pages

“I want to have 1 million friends”

Youth social interactions and visibility strategies on YouTube

chapter Chapter 9|15 pages

“Children of the dark in a tropical country”

Media archeology of Brazilian goth subculture and its transformations 1

chapter Chapter 10|12 pages

Fans who camp in concerts of pop artists

Notes on performance and coloniality of Brazilian youth