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Youth in a Globalizing World

RC34 Sociology of Youth (host committee)

Language: English

The recently instituted book series, Youth in a Globalizing World (Brill), provides a forum to promote understanding of young people in our rapidly changing interconnected world. It seeks to capture the transnational emergence of shared practices, values, norms, behaviors, cultures and patterns among young people all across the globe. This session will present recently published and forthcoming volumes in this series, representing exemplary comparative studies of youth and delivering new insights for exploring the global context in which young people live today: 

Crossing to Adulthood: How Diverse Young Americans Understand and Navigate Their Lives (edited by Teresa Swartz, Douglas Hartman and Rubén G. Rumbaut); 

Protest and Generation: Legacies and Emergences in the Middle East, North Africa and the Mediterranean (edited by Mark Muhannad Ayyassh and Ratiba Hadj-Moussa); 

What Politics? Youth and Political Engagement in Africa (edited by Elina Oinas, Henri Onodera, and Leena Suurpää;

Young People and The Politics of Outrage and Hope (edited by Peter Kelly, Perri Campbell, Lyn Harrison, and Chris Hickey);

and

Immigrant Youth : Managing Identities through the Commercial World (edited by Virginie Silhouette-Dercourt). 

Each of the authors/editors will discuss the central contributions of their works, followed by discussion and exchanges between them and attendees. This invited session is not open for abstract submission.