ABSTRACT
This collection brings together the ideas of key global scholars focusing on the lives of youth and young adults, examining their visual and cultural identity constructs.
Embracing an international perspective encompassing the Global North and Global South, chapters explore expressions and performances of youth and young adults as shifting and entangled, in and through the clothed body, gender, sexuality, race, artistic and pedagogical making practices, in spaces and places, framed by new materialism, social media, popular and material culture. The overarching emphasis of the collection is on youth and young adults’ strategies for engaging in and with the world, becoming a someone, and belonging, in settings that include a juvenile arbitration program, an artist community, high schools, universities, families and social media.
This truly interdisciplinary and international collection will have resonance not just within cultural and media studies, but also in education, anthropology, sociology, gender studies, child and youth studies, visual culture, and communication studies.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|77 pages
Contextualizing embodiments in space and place
chapter 2|26 pages
Worlding youth
chapter 3|16 pages
About facing the other
part II|96 pages
Making and engaging
chapter 7|19 pages
A TikTok assemblage
chapter 9|15 pages
“I love my body”
part III|75 pages
Becoming and belonging