ABSTRACT
The principles of age and generation have often been linked to youth, as if they only applied to or concerned young people. Age and generation seem to be acknowledged everywhere albeit in different, cultural ways. Biological generations are about the same in length, but cultural generations may vary considerably. For youth culture scholars, time thus becomes an issue that they may apply to youth they study, since the state of youth – especially from an adult point of view – is something that will pass. According to Anthony Giddens, agency is ‘the stream of actual or contemplated casual interventions of corporeal beings in the ongoing process of events-in-the world.’ In Kathmandu, Nepal, young men are beginning to form modern identities at the intersection of tradition and globalization, but their youth cultural agency is not very prominent.
