Youthscapes: The Popular, the National, the Global

by Elisabeth Soep and George Lipsitz

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812218965
• ISBN13: 9780812218961
• Release Date: November 2004
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.04 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.1"