Forms of Collective Engagement in Youth Transitions

A Global Perspective
Erscheinungsjahr 2021
ISBN: 978-90-04-39794-1
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 16, 294 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 636 g

Reihe: Youth in a Globalizing World

This collection sheds light on diverse forms of collective engagement among young people. Recent developments in youth studies, and the changing global shape of socio-economic conditions for young people, demand new approaches and ideas. Contributors focus on novel processes, practices and routines within youth collectivity in various contexts across the globe, including Indonesia, Spain, Italy, Norway and Poland. The chapters pay particular attention to transitional phases in the lives of young people. Conceptually, the book also explores the strengths and limitations of a focus on collectivity in youth studies. Ultimately, the book makes the case for a focus on forms of collectivity and engagement to help scholars think through contemporary experiences of shared social life among young people.

Contributors are: Duncan Adam, Massimiliano Andretta, Roberta Bracciale, David Cairns, Diego Carbajo Padilla, Enzo Colombo, Valentina Cuzzocrea, Carles Feixa, Ben Gook, Izabela Grabowska, Natalia Juchniewicz, Ewa Krzaklewska, Wolfgang Lehmann, Michelle Mansfield, María Martinez, Ann Nilsen, Rebecca Raby, Paola Rebughini, Birgit Reißig, Bjørn Schiermer, Tabea Schlimbach, Melanie Simms, Benjamín Tejerina, Kristoffer C Vogt, and Natalia Waechter.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Cuzzocrea, Valentina

Gook, Ben

Schiermer, Bjørn

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Sozialethnologie: Familie, Gender, Soziale Gruppen
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Altersgruppen Kinder- und Jugendsoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1: Introducing forms of collective engagement in youth transitions studies

Valentina Cuzzocrea, Ben Gook and Bjørn Schiermer

Part I: Forms of collective engagement in (un)employment, (lack of) work, collaborative practices

Chapter 2: Transition companions. The role of peers in German School-to-Work Transitions

Tabea Schlimbach and Birgit Reißig

Chapter 3: Early teen-work assemblages and embedded dependence

Rebecca Raby and Wolfgang Lehmann

Chapter 4: Precarious solidarities: unions, young workers and representative claims

Melanie Simms and Duncan Adam

Part II: Forms of collective engagement Youth collectivities in public space and its transformation

Chapter 5: Youth Lonjas phenomenon in the Basque Country: New Forms of Collectivity in precarious times

Diego Carbajo Padilla, María Martinez and Benjamín Tejerina

Chapter 6: Collective Individualism: Practices of Youth Collectivity within a Graffiti community in Yogyakarta, Indonesia

Michelle Mansfield

Chapter 7: ‘There is no me, there is only us’: the Erasmus bubble as a transient form of transnational collectivity

Valentina Cuzzocrea, Ewa Krzaklewska and David Cairns

Part III: Youth collectivities in the forging of youth identities through new media

Chapter 8: Young Italians and political engagements: good news?

Massimiliano Andretta and Roberta Bracciale

Chapter 9: Teenage Social Media Culture(s): Challenges for Girls and Boys in Transition into Adolescence

Natalia Waechter

Chapter 10: The ‘assisting collectivities’ of young migrants and nonmigrants via new media

Natalia Juchniewicz and Izabela Grabowska

Part IV: Forms of collective engagement in reshaping subjectivities

Chapter 11: The taken-for-granted in intergenerational processes during youth transitions: exploring the intersecting contexts of gender, class and historical period

Ann Nilsen and Kristoffer C Vogt

Chapter 12: Connecting Individualizations: Towards New Generational Collective Actions

Enzo Colombo and Paola Rebughini

Afterword by Carles Feixa: Found in transition

Über Autor(innen)

Valentina Cuzzocrea holds a PhD in Sociology (University of Essex, 2008). She is Associate Professor at the University of Cagliari. Her latest book is Italian Youth in International Context (co-edited with B.G. Bello and Y. Kazepov, Routledge 2020).

Ben Gook holds a PhD in Social Theory and Cultural Studies (University of Melbourne, 2014). He is Lecturer in Cultural Studies at the University of Melbourne. His publications include Divided Subjects, Invisible Borders: Re-unified Germany after 1989 (Rowman & Littlefield International, 2015).

Bjørn Schiermer holds a PhD in Sociology (University of Copenhagen, 2010). He is Professor at the University of Oslo. He is interested in Sociology of Culture, Subculture and Sociological Theory.