ABSTRACT

In Studying Urban Youth Culture: Primer (2008), Greg Dimitriadis (with Lois Weis) writes on how researchers might re-conceptualise a more effective ‘research imaginary’, through the lens of multimodal and multi-faceted globalisation. Dimitriadis sought ways to think about researching youth cultures, including ‘denaturalizing’ the youth with “new research imaginaries” (2008a, 109). Included in his analysis were the “new forms of identity work in a time of globalization, including the role and importance of youth culture in a ‘post-subculture’ moment” (110), and the Samoan and South Sudanese young women featured here are in multiple ways representative of such a moment.