African Youth Cultures In A Globalized World

Author : Paul Ugor,Lord Mawuko-Yevugah
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2016-03-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317184157

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African Youth Cultures in a Globalized World by Paul Ugor,Lord Mawuko-Yevugah Pdf

All over the world, there is growing concern about the ramifications of globalization, late-modernity and general global social and economic restructuring on the lives and futures of young people. Bringing together a wide body of research to reflect on youth responses to social change in Africa, this volume shows that while young people in the region face extraordinary social challenges in their everyday lives, they also continue to devise unique ways to reinvent their difficult circumstances and prosper in the midst of seismic global and local social changes. Contributors from Africa and around the world cover a wide range of topics on African youth cultures, exploring the lives of young people not necessarily as victims, but as active social players in the face of a shifting, late-modernist civilization. With empirical cases and varied theoretical approaches, the book offers a timely scholarly contribution to debates around globalization and its implications and impacts for Africa's youth.

Author : Lord Mawuko-Yevugah
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Globalization
ISBN : 1315566060

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African Youth Cultures in a Globalized World by Lord Mawuko-Yevugah Pdf

Author : Jepkorir-Rose Chepyator-Thomson,Akinloye Ojo,Karim Traore,Katja Sonkeng
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2020-02-11
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781527546851

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Youth, Globalization, and Society in Africa and Its Diaspora by Jepkorir-Rose Chepyator-Thomson,Akinloye Ojo,Karim Traore,Katja Sonkeng Pdf

This edited collection provides a window into Africa’s diversity. A wide-ranging body of authors offers a valuable glimpse into the challenges and opportunities presented by globalization to the youth in Africa and its diaspora, while issuing a stern call for action to local governments to act now and tap into the energy of Africa’s burgeoning youth population. In doing so, the authors expand extant literature on the continent’s coping with globalization in the context of young people in various African nations. Featured in the collection are views on education, language, agriculture, sport and technology, deeply interwoven into the schooling, behavior, and health of youth. Specifically, these practices are found in both formal and non-formal education, agricultural production, and food nutrition, computer technology, and sport’s amelioration of health issues, throughout Africa.

Author : Mwenda Ntarangwi
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Adolescent psychology
ISBN : 9780252076534

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East African Hip Hop by Mwenda Ntarangwi Pdf

Hip hop music that empowers and engages youth in East Africa

Author : Vivian Yenika-Agbaw,Lindah Mhando
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2014-01-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134623938

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African Youth in Contemporary Literature and Popular Culture by Vivian Yenika-Agbaw,Lindah Mhando Pdf

This book explores how African youth are depicted in contemporary literature and popular culture, and discusses the different ways by which they attempt to construct personal and cultural identities through popular culture and social media outlets. The contributors approach the subject from an interdisciplinary perspective, looking at images in children’s and adolescent literature from Africa, and the African diaspora, from Nollywood and Hollywood movies, from popular magazines, and from youth cultures encountered directly through field experiences. The findings reveal that there are many stereotypes about Africa, African youth and black cultures, and that African youth are aware of these. Since they juggle multiple identities shaped by their ethnicities, race and religion, it is often a challenge for them to define themselves. As they also share a global youth culture that transcends these cultural markers, some take advantage of media outlets to voice their concerns and participate in political struggles. Others simply use these to promote their personal interests. Contributors ponder the challenges involved in constructing unique identities, offering ideas on how African youth are doing so successfully or not in different parts of the continent and the African diaspora, and thus offer new possibilities for youth studies.

Author : Larry Strelitz
Publisher : University of South Africa Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015074271910

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Mixed Reception by Larry Strelitz Pdf

Author : Divina Frau-Meigs,Sirkku Kotilainen,Manisha Pathak-Shelat,Michael Hoechsmann,Stuart R. Poyntz
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2020-09-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781119166924

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The Handbook of Media Education Research by Divina Frau-Meigs,Sirkku Kotilainen,Manisha Pathak-Shelat,Michael Hoechsmann,Stuart R. Poyntz Pdf

Over the past forty years, media education research has emerged as a historical, epistemological and practical field of study. Shifts in the field—along with radical transformations in media technologies, aesthetic forms, ownership models, and audience participation practices—have driven the application of new concepts and theories across a range of both school and non-school settings. The Handbook on Media Education Research is a unique exploration of the complex set of practices, theories, and tools of media research. Featuring contributions from a diverse range of internationally recognized experts and practitioners, this timely volume discusses recent developments in the field in the context of related scholarship, public policy, formal and non-formal teaching and learning, and DIY and community practice. Offering a truly global perspective, the Handbook focuses on empirical work from Media and Information Literacy (MIL) practitioners from around the world. The book’s five parts explore global youth cultures and the media, trans-media learning, media literacy and scientific controversies, varying national approaches to media research, media education policies, and much more. A ground breaking resource on the concepts and theories of media research, this important book: Provides a diversity of views and experiences relevant to media literacy education research Features contributions from experts from a wide-range of countries including South Africa, Finland, India, Italy, Brazil, and many more Examines the history and future of media education in various international contexts Discusses the development and current state of media literacy education institutions and policies Addresses important contemporary issues such as social media use; datafication; digital privacy, rights, and divides; and global cultural practices. The Handbook of Media Education Research is an invaluable guide for researchers in the field, undergraduate and graduate students in media studies, policy makers, and MIL practitioners.

Author : Paul Ugor
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 419 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : History
ISBN : 9781648250248

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Youth and Popular Culture in Africa by Paul Ugor Pdf

"The edited collection focuses on the links between young people and African popular culture. It explores popular culture produced and consumed by young people in contemporary Africa. And by "culture," we mean all kinds of texts or representations-visual, oral, written, performative, fictional, social, and virtual-created by African youth, mostly about their lives and their immediate societies, and for themselves, but also consumed by the larger public, and shared locally and globally. We proceed from the premise that cultural texts not only function as "social facts" as Karin Barber argues, but that they double as "commentaries upon, and interpretations of, social facts. They are part of social reality, but they also take up an attitude to social reality" (2007, 04). So, the work focuses specifically on what African youth produce as popular culture, under what conditions or contexts they produce such work, how they produce those texts, why they produce them, the aesthetic dimensions of these texts as cultural artifacts, and why these textual practices matter as social facts, as interpretive acts, and as cultural symbols of the general cultural activism of young people in a rapidly changing world, a world where the global cultural economy is the prime terrain for the relentless struggles over the meanings that come to shape political-economic and social systems"--

Author : Anoop Nayak
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2016-09-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781350022997

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Race, Place and Globalization by Anoop Nayak Pdf

What does it mean to be young in a changing world? How are migration, settlement and new urban cultures shaping young lives? And in particular, are race, place and class still meaningful to contemporary youth cultures? This path-breaking book shows how young people are responding differently to recent social, economic and cultural transformations. From the spirit of white localism deployed by de-industrialized football supporters, to the hybrid multicultural exchanges displayed by urban youth, young people are finding new ways of wrestling with questions of race and ethnicity. Through globalization is whiteness now being displaced by black culture -- in fashion, music and slang -- and if so, what impact is this having on race politics? Moreover, what happens to those people and places that are left behind by changes in late modernity? By developing a unique brand of spatial cultural studies, this book explores complex formations of race and class as they arise in the subtle textures of whiteness, respectability and youth subjectivity. This is the first book to look specifically at young ethnicities through the prism of local-global change. Eloquently written, its riveting ethnographic case studies and insider accounts will ensure that this book becomes a benchmark publication for writing on race in years to come.

Author : Paul Ugor
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 419 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : History
ISBN : 9781648250248

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Youth and Popular Culture in Africa by Paul Ugor Pdf

"The edited collection focuses on the links between young people and African popular culture. It explores popular culture produced and consumed by young people in contemporary Africa. And by "culture," we mean all kinds of texts or representations-visual, oral, written, performative, fictional, social, and virtual-created by African youth, mostly about their lives and their immediate societies, and for themselves, but also consumed by the larger public, and shared locally and globally. We proceed from the premise that cultural texts not only function as "social facts" as Karin Barber argues, but that they double as "commentaries upon, and interpretations of, social facts. They are part of social reality, but they also take up an attitude to social reality" (2007, 04). So, the work focuses specifically on what African youth produce as popular culture, under what conditions or contexts they produce such work, how they produce those texts, why they produce them, the aesthetic dimensions of these texts as cultural artifacts, and why these textual practices matter as social facts, as interpretive acts, and as cultural symbols of the general cultural activism of young people in a rapidly changing world, a world where the global cultural economy is the prime terrain for the relentless struggles over the meanings that come to shape political-economic and social systems"--

Author : Sunaina Maira,Elisabeth Soep
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2013-07-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780812205671

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Youthscapes by Sunaina Maira,Elisabeth Soep Pdf

Young people, it seems, are both everywhere and nowhere. The media are crowded with images of youth as deviant or fashionable, personifying a society's anxieties and hopes about its own transformation. However, theories of globalization, nationalism, and citizenship tend to focus on adult actors. Youthscapes sets youth at the heart of globalization by exploring the meanings young people have created for themselves through their engagements with popular cultures, national ideologies, and global markets. The term "youthscapes" places local youth practices within the context of ongoing shifts in national and global forces. Using this framework, the book revitalizes discussions about youth cultures and social movements, while simultaneously reflecting on the uses of youth as an academic and political category. Tracing young people's movements across physical and imagined spaces, the authors examine various cases of young people as they participate in social relations; use and invent technology; earn, spend, need, and despise money; comprise target markets while producing their own original media; and create their own understandings of citizenship. The essays examine young Thai women working in the transnational beauty industry, former child soldiers in Sierra Leone, Latino youth using graphic art in political organizing, a Sri Lankan refugee's fan relationship with Jackie Chan, and Somali high school students in the United States and Canada. Drawing on methodologies and frameworks from multiple fields, such as anthropology, sociology, and film studies, the volume is useful to those studying and teaching issues of youth culture, popular culture, globalization, social movements, education, and media. By focusing on the intersection between globalization studies and youth culture, the authors offer a vital contribution to the development of a new, interdisciplinary approach to youth culture studies.

Author : Pam Nilan,Carles Feixa
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0415370701

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Global Youth? by Pam Nilan,Carles Feixa Pdf

This innovative collection of studies by international youth researchers, critically addresses questions of 'global' youth, incorporating material from regions as diverse as Sydney, Tehran, Dakar and Manila, and advancing our knowledge about young people around the globe. Exploring specific local youth cultures whilst mediating global mass media and consumption trends, this book traces subaltern 'youth landscapes' and tells subaltern 'youth stories' previously invisible in predominantly western youth cultural studies and theorizing. The chapters here serve as a refutation of the colonialist discourse of cultural globalization. Showcasing previously unpublished youth research from outside the English-speaking world alongside the work of well-known researchers such as Huq and Holden, these accounts of youth cultural practices highlight much that is predictably different, but also a great deal of common ground. This book goes inside creative cultural formation of youth identities to critically examine the global in the local. Bringing together an internationally diverse group of researchers, who describe and analyze youth cultures throughout Europe, the Americas, Asia, Africa and Oceania, this volume presents the first comprehensive review of global youth cultures, practices and identities, and as such is a valuable read for students and researchers of youth studies, cultural studies and sociology.

Author : Eric Charry
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2012-10-23
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780253005823

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Hip Hop Africa by Eric Charry Pdf

Hip Hop Africa explores a new generation of Africans who are not only consumers of global musical currents, but also active and creative participants. Eric Charry and an international group of contributors look carefully at youth culture and the explosion of hip hop in Africa, the embrace of other contemporary genres, including reggae, ragga, and gospel music, and the continued vitality of drumming. Covering Senegal, Mali, Côte d'Ivoire, Ghana, Nigeria, Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi, and South Africa, this volume offers unique perspectives on the presence and development of hip hop and other music in Africa and their place in global music culture.

Author : Fiona Blaikie
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2021-06-03
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781000392630

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Visual and Cultural Identity Constructs of Global Youth and Young Adults by Fiona Blaikie Pdf

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.

Author : Susan Dewey,Karen J. Brison
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2012-08-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780815651697

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Super Girls, Gangstas, Freeters, and Xenomaniacs by Susan Dewey,Karen J. Brison Pdf

A compelling look at the ways in which youth, gender and gender identities are being transformed around the globe.