ISA Research Committee Activities Report
Final Report for 2002-2006 And Reports on activities 2004-2006
Helena Helve, with Howard Williamson, James Côté, Carles Feixa, Vinod Chandra, Ngan-Pun Ngai and David Everatt
1. Research Committee 34 (Sociology of Youth)
The activities during 2002 – 2006 have been: exchanges of information among its members, international scientific communication, international research projects and organisational activities, and implementation of a network in youth research.
The exchanges of information have been primarily through publication activities and a documentation system. An electronic information bulletin IBYR (International Bulletin of Youth Research) and a public mailing list of RC34 members inform members and the scientific communities about the ongoing activities of the Research Committee. These electronic networks and channels of communication have been used to best effect for the Committee’s interaction and dissemination activities, but the Committee’s officers and member volunteers have taken all reasonable steps within their means to ensure that those members who do not have access to such facilities are not excluded from information and participation.
International scientific communication on important problems and issues of youth sociology and multidisciplinary youth research have been carried out by means of scientific conferences, symposia, colloquia, electronic networks and other forms of interpersonal communication sponsored by RC34, and in participation with activities of ISA.
2. Composition of Board for the Research Committee 2002-2006:
The Board of RC34 consisted during 2002 – 2006 of 12 members of Executive Board and an Advisory Board of 9 members. The Executive Board involved President, Organisational Secretary and Treasurer, Editor-in-Chief of the Bulletin of RC34, 7 vice-presidents and the Past President of the Committee.
Officials [Executive Board]:
All elected at RC34 meeting during World Congress 2002
| Position | Name | Organ. affiliation | Country | Year |
| President | Helena Helve | Uni of Helsinki and Kuopio | Finland | 2002 |
| Secretary | Howard Williamson | Uni of Glamorgan | Wales, UK | 2002 |
| VP/Europe | Carles Feixa | Uni of Lleida | Spain | 2002 |
| VP/Europe | Henk Vinken | Ind consultant | Netherlands/Japan | 2002 |
| VP/Asia | Vinod Chandra | Uni of Lucknow | India | 2002 |
| VP/Asia | Ngan-Pun Ngai | Uni of Hong Kong | China | 2002 |
| VP/Africa | David Everatt | Strategy & Tactics | South Africa | 1998 |
| VP/Oceania | Johanna Wyn | Uni of Melbourne | Australia | 1998 |
| VP/America | Gunilla Holm | Uni West Michigan | USA | 2002 |
| IBYR* | James Cote | Uni West Ontario | Canada | 2002 |
| Treasurer | Reingard Spannring | Uni of Innsbruck | Austria | 2002 |
| Past President | Lynne Chisholm | Uni Insbrück | Austria | 2002 |
* Editor, International Bulletin of Youth Research
Advisory Board: the Board also decided in the first Executive Board meeting in Brisbane to appoint an Advisory Board in conformity with the provisions in the RC34 statutes. Scholars of high standing and outstanding personalities in the field of international youth studies who have also shown longstanding commitment to the Committee were invited to join this group. This has been a worthwhile innovation that the Board wishes to retain for the future. The members are:
*Carmen Leccardi, University of Milan-Bicocca, Italy
*Sylvia Trnka, The Vienna Institute of Demography
*Siyka Kovacheva, University of Plovdiv, Bulgaria
*Lyudmila Nurse, Hart Group, England
*Ola Stafseng (past President), University of Oslo, Norway
*Juergen Hartmann (past President), Dalarna University, Sweden
*Ladislav Machacek (past Treasurer), Slovak Academy of Sciences, Slovakia
*Claire Wallace (past Organisational Secretary), University of Aberleen, Scotland
*Songxing Su (past Vice President for Asia), University of Shanghai
The next Board elections will take place during World Congress 2006 in Durban. Officials and Board members can be nominated by any individual who, during the period of nomination and election (March – July 2006), is in good standing with the RC. Nominees also have to be in good standing, and they have to accept their nomination. More precise rules are set out in the statutes (see http://www.ucm.es/info/isa/rcs/rc34_st.htm).
3. Delegate and Alternate to ISA Research Council Meetings
(i) Delegate : Helena Helve
(ii) Alternate : Howard Williamson
4. Affiliated members
All current members of the RC have been notified through the ISA and are on the ISA list of RC members. It is assumed therefore that all are members both of RC34 and the ISA. There is one ISA member whose membership of RC34 has lapsed. Previously there were RC34 members who were NOT members of the ISA. This created some confusion, but this has now been rectified.
A profile of the membership eligible to vote in the 2006 elections (as of May 31 2006) is as follows:
Current membership (130 / 43 countries)
Running order of number of members [some problems of classification because of ‘nationality’, place of residence, place of work]:
9 – Brazil [9]
7 – Russia, Canada, Australia [21]
6 –Japan, United Kingdom, Sweden, USA, South Africa [30]
5 – Austria, Finland [10]
4 – Luxembourg, Latvia, Italy, Israel, Mexico [20]
3 – Spain, China, India, Portugal [12]
2 – Germany, Bulgaria, Norway, Nigeria, Iran [10]
1 – France, Sri Lanka, Philippines, Morocco, Algeria, Chile, Netherlands, Denmark, Slovakia, Slovenia, Faroe Islands, Hungary, Serbia and Montenegro, Belarus, Ireland, Senegal and Romania, Trinidad and Tobago [18]
Seen differently:
Europe : 66; The Americas: 28; The Far East: 10; Australia: 7; Africa: 11; The Near East: 5; India and Sri Lanka: 3 [130]
5. Activities 2002 – 2006
5.1 Board Meetings 2002 – 2006
– There were 9 meetings in total: See minutes of the meetings at http://www.alli.fi/youth/research/ibyr/report.htm
A. Board meetings 2004-May 2006
• Macao, China 8th December, 2005 – view photographs from the meeting, – 8 MEMBERS PRESENT
• Salerno, Italy 19th February, 2005 – 8 MEMBERS PRESENT
• Beijing, China, 16th October, 2004 – 6 MEMBERS PRESENT
• Thessaloniki, Greece 2-3rd July 2004 – 7 MEMBERS PRESENT
• Helsinki, Finland 14.2.2004 – 5 MEMBERS PRESENT
B. Board meetings 2002 – 2003
See minutes of the meetings http://www.alli.fi/youth/research/ibyr/report.htm
• Brisbane 2002 – 17 MEMBERS PRESENT
• Moscow 2002 – 6 MEMBERS PRESENT
• Roskilde 2003 – 8 MEMBERS PRESENT
• Strasbourg 2003 – 6 MEMBERS PRESENT
5.2. Regional and International conferences and meetings organized and co-organized by RC34
Europe (VPs Henk Vinken and Carles Feixa)
2006 9th Nordic Youth Research Information Symposium (NYRIS 9), Stockholm 13/01/06.
2005 Seminario interdisciplinare Problemi e rappresentazioni della devianza tra i giovani immigrati, Fondazione Giovanni Agnelli, Torino, 14/10/05.
2005 Seminario internazionale ‘Il fantasma delle bande’, Università di Genova, Genova, 20/04.
2005 The Social Context of Gangs and Troublesome Youth Groups in Multi-Ethnic Europe, International Institute for the Sociology of Law. Oñati, 25-27/05.
2005 “Youth: An Uncertain Future? Being youth in the new century: an international standpoint” 18 and 19 february 2005, Salerno, Italy. The conference was organized with sponsorship of Italian Sociological Association, University of Salerno, Governments of Regione Campania, Cities of Salerno and Avellino, and Province of Avellino, Department of Sociology and Political Science (University of Salerno –Italy) and Research Committee 34 (Sociology of Youth) of International Sociological Association.
2005 “Childhoods” conference Oslo, 29.6. – 3.7. 2005. RC34 organized sessions comprising over 100 papers.
2004 Whose Culture is it? Trans-generational approaches to Culture, Circle Round Table Conference 2004, Barcelona, 17/12.
2004 International seminar Values and World Views of Youth. Helsinki, 14.2.2004 organized together with the Finnish Youth Research Society Research, House of the Learned Societies, Helsinki, 14 February 2004
2002-2003:
2002 “Youth studies and new global challenges: International youth studies training seminar for young youth sociologists, youth workers and youth NGO officers from Central and Eastern European countries, Russian Federation and CIS countries,” washeld in Moscow, September 7-13, 2002 in co-operation with European Youth Foundation of the Council of Europe, Department for Youth Affairs, Ministry of Education of the Russian Federation and Nordic-Baltic Youth Research doctoral school programme and RC34.
2002 “Global Priorities for Youth: United Nations Youth Conference,” which was held in Helsinki, October 6-10, 2002. Our committee’s expertise was widely used as paper presenters and discussants.
2003 “Youth, Voice and Noise” the 8th Nordic Youth Research Symposium (NYRIS 8), June 11-14, Roskilde, Denmark, where RC34 held also a business meeting
2003 “Social Challenges in Latin America” in XXIst Century: IVth European Congress CEISAL of Latinoamericanists,” Bratislava, July 4-7.
Future activities:
Conference “Young People at the Crossroads”
September 1-5, 2006, Petrozavodsk, Karelian Republic, Russian Federation.
USA
2005“Youth Indicators in a regional context: the SICIA”, “Youth and Leisure”, “Youth and ICT”, Expert Group on Youth Development Indicators, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, United Nations, New York, 12-4/12/05.
India (Vinod Chandra, VP Asia Region)
2002-2006
• A compendium on Indian youth titled “Construction and Reconstruction of Indian Youth” published by the Circle for Child and Youth Research Cooperation in India (CCYRCI) in 2003.
• Researchers all over India and neighbouring countries were mobilized to come on a common platform. They were persuaded to join RC34.
• Two national levels Conference were organized as part of our RC activity in India. These conferences were “Construction and Reconstruction of Indian Youth” in January 2004 and National Conference on Indian Youth and Professional Education in Global Age during December 19-20, 2005.
• The Indian Sociological Society (ISS), India’s highest professional body of sociologists, is convinced to form a separate Research Committee on Sociology of Youth under ISS. Principally, the governing body of Indian Sociological Society has agreed to form it in the near future.
Future Activities in Asia Region
• India is organizing 8th International Conference on “Asian Youth and Childhood – 2007” as one of the major activity of RC34.
• The Circle for Child and Youth Research Cooperation in India (CCYRCI) is planning to bring out a quarterly refereed journal on “Youth Issues in Asia” with cooperation of our Research Committee from 2008.
• We have also planned to publish two volumes on Youth Research in Asia in the year 2007.
China & Japan
(Ngan-Pun Ngai, VP Asia Region)
Since 2002, the collaboration of RC34 activities in the region of Asia (China & Japan) has achieved continuous development that it focuses on: 1) organizing two regional based international youth conferences in Beijing and Macao, China respectively; and (2) establishing closer linkages among youth researchers of different academic departments and research institutes.
Conferences
2003 “The Healthy Development of Children,” conference was held in Shanghai International Forum, November 20-22, 2003.
2005 The Fifth Shanghai International Forum for Children, which focused on children’s safety and social responsibility, has been convened from November 24th to 26th 2005 at China Executive Leadership Academy, Pudong. The forum was supported by Shanghai Municipal Women and Children Committee and Research Committee on Sociology of Youth (RC34), International Sociological Association. It was sponsored by Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences, Shanghai Women’s Federation and Xinmin Evening and organized by Institute of Youth and Juvenile Studies of SASS, Shanghai Family Education Research Association and Shanghai Family Education Centre. More than 200 experts, officers and NGO representatives from 11 countries such as America, Australian, Britain, China, French, Germany, Japan etc. attended the forum and discussed the current situation of children’s safety. It had four panel discussions focusing on different topics as Children’s Injury and Protection, Environment, Media and Safety Education, Children’s Psychological Problems and the Child Section.
The 6th International Conference on Asian Youth Issues
2004 The conference with the theme “Economic Globalization and Youth Employment” was organized in 15-19 October 2004 in Beijing, China. The Conference was hosted by the China Youth and Children Research Center, the China Youth and Children Research Association, and co-organized by the Education and Youth Affairs Bureau, Macao Special Administrative Region, and the Hong Kong Federation of Youth Groups. With more than 100 participants, the conference had attracted both youth policy makers and youth researchers to make paper presentations and join in the discussions. A number of senior Chinese government officials also were present at the conference. The conference achieved its goal to examine the impact of economic globalization on youth employment
The 7th International Conference on Asian Youth Issues
2005 The Conference was hosted by the Education and Youth Affairs Bureau of Macao Special Administrative Region, China, and co-organized by RC34, the China Youth & Children Research Center, The China Youth & Children Research Association and the Hong Kong Federation of Youth Groups in December 5-9, 2005 in Macao, China.
The theme of the Conference is “Opportunities and Challenges of Youth in New Era” in Macao. With more than 50 papers submitted for presentation by delegates from 12 different countries and regions, the conference was able to explore its theme from diverse perspectives with a wide variety of social, cultural and economic backgrounds.
Links with Mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macau and Singapore Youth Researchers
The period also established closer linkages with youth researchers and experts in Mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macau, and Singapore. More opportunities of academic exchanges and research collaboration have been opened up and further promoted through different channels of communication and cooperation. Meanwhile, we have established an informal coordinating network with a group of prominent youth researchers in the region. This group of researchers will undoubtedly become the driving force for the future development of youth research in Asia. However, there is a need to strengthen links with youth researchers in Japan, Korea and South East Asia. So far we have very few contacts with them and therefore, it demands for making efforts to involve them in the research activities of the Asian region.
Looking Ahead
In the new century, Asia has to prepare itself for a globalized world. Youth researchers and experts in the region have faced both greater opportunities and challenges to contribute their knowledge and expertise to the development of young people in an era of rapid changes. In order to realize such mission and ambition, the following areas are suggested for future action:
1. Organizing conferences on youth policies and issues
2. Promoting academic exchange among youth researchers
3. Editing /Publishing books on youth issues
4. Establishing a closer network among youth researchers
5. Exploring financial resources to support the above mentioned work
Africa
(David Everatt VP)
RC34 activities have primarily taken the form of networking, publishing and some applied work. This followed an earlier, very successful ’summer school’ that brought together RC34 youth experts from across the world to share ideas and approaches with young researchers from South and southern Africa. Since then, the youth sector – particularly youth NGOs – have done less and less research as funding dries up, and have focused on implementation, especially entrepreneurship training. RC34 has attempted to keep a broad focus on integrated youth development in the face of an increasingly narrow focus – only on jobs, or on HIV/AIDS, and so on. The RC34 Vice President gave the keynote address at the 20th anniversary of South Africa’s oldest youth NGO, the Joint Enrichment Project; oversaw a series of strategy sessions for youth NGOs seeking to reorient their activities in the current environment; and published articles in local and international journals and books including an overview of youth in South Africa which will appear in a youth-focused edition of Africa Insight.
5.3. Young Researchers Award for Junior Scholars
In 2003, RC34 decided to sponsor a young researcher award for ‘best article’. By Junior Scholars we mean people less than 35 years of age on Nov 1st, 2005. The announcement was published in IBYR and in RC34 membership letters. All submissions were judged according to perceptiveness with which issues are treated, the quality of empirical materials presented the consistency with which an analytic framework is used the originality of ideas, and the clarity of style. For the process of competition we established a working committee for it: Jûrgen Hartman (chair), Lynne Chisholm, Jim Côté and Helena Helve.
We were pleasantly surprised to see what a good batch of entries we received for this first competition, even though the number of entries was not high (10 articles). On the whole, there was (1) a good and plausible balance between theoretical and empirical analysis and (2) stringency of argument. A special attention was drawn to whether the paper had a clear question that it treated and for which it provided an answer, rather than meandering around a terrain of interesting and associated issues. In the end ,the RC34 board had the pleasure to announce that Dennis Zuev of Krasnoyarsk State University has won the award of the Young Youth Sociologists with his paper “Youth travel ideology in Russia.” This award was the first worldwide competition for junior scholars engaged in youth research. The winner is invited to participate in the XVI World Congress of Sociology, which will take place in Durban, South Africa, July 23 – 29, 2006. The winner’s conference fees and a travel grant will be paid by RC34.
The winner’s paper will be presented in RC34’s presidential session. Also his and the three next highly rated papers will be eligible for publication in the journal Young, subject to editorial decision and revision.
5.4. Secretariat and Administration
(Howard Williamson, Organisational Secretary)
Since 2002, the main task has been ‘simply’ to keep track of the membership, remind and encourage renewals, and maintain contact with members through reacting to specific requests. There has obviously been considerable extra work in co-ordinating nominations and ballot papers for the forthcoming elections.
The Organisational Secretary’s function is therefore very much a ‘behind the scenes’ set of activities oiling the wheels for the efficient administration of RC34, which supports the President in the more professional tasks and responsibilities.
Towards the end of 2005, the membership had declined substantially, which did – briefly – present cause for concern, but the membership now stands at an all-time high of 130. This reflects both the general value and identity of belonging to a global network of youth researchers and the more personal touch have sought to provide through communication with individual members. Also IBYR online membership renewal has made easier to join RC34 and ISA (see http://www.alli.fi/youth/research/ibyr/index.htm)
5.5. Participation of RC34 members in past activities
James Côté and Helena Helve have participated in May 2004 Ottawa ISARCs conference and authored also an article to ISARC Conference publication: The New International Sociology of Youth: Conflict, Competition, Cooperation in Intergenerational Relation.
The goal of RC34 is to advance youth research throughout the world, and during my Presidency this has been my focus. Our structure with Regional Vice-presidents recognises the aspirations of youth researchers in all parts of the world and endeavours to support and strengthen the free development of youth research in co-operation with similar associations of scientists. That is why we have encouraged the international dissemination and exchange of information on developments in youth research and training through the IBYR. To this end, we have convened meetings along with regularly scheduled world congresses, as well as promoted publications that support our other activities. English, French and Spanish are the recognized languages of our RC34. The administrative language is English.
To fulfil the goal of international cooperation, we have formed greater connections with other ISA Research Committees, like RC53 on the Sociology of Childhood. We have organized a joint session with RC34 in Durban WC. We have also collaborated with National Associations (e.g., organized conferences together with them) and built youth research networks with national and international youth research associations. This has provided us with invaluable opportunities to exchange ideas and collaborate within and across the boundaries of sub-specialisations, theories, methodological approaches and national/regional experiences. We have also encouraged youth researchers around the world in research seminars, networks, and joint projects to post information about their work to IBYR. For example, colleagues have written on the Diary page of the IBYR website. The IBYR currently enjoys a world-wide readership among youth researchers and youth sociologists.
Board Activities
The RC34 Board has gathered during 2002 – 2006 9 times (see 5.1. board meetings). The meetings have been organized in connection with conferences in different regions organized by RC34. Our focus is already on the World Congress of Sociology in Durban, South Africa, where we have a programme of 140 accepted papers. A great number of presentations will be made by the academics from around the world, which will be of different levels of seniority and experience. The success of RC34 shown over the last few years and at the ISA congress is a result of our Research Committee’s hard work on securing global participation in its activities, promotion of inter-cultural understanding, the cross-fertilization of theoretical, substantive and methodological perspectives, and the building of a collegiate atmosphere within the committee. The work of RC34 shows we are not only an academic platform, but a social and political project as well.
Our Vice-Presidents David Everatt (for Africa, Near East and Middle East), Vinod Chandra and Ngai Ngan Pun (for Asia, including Japan and China), Johanna Wyn (for Australia, New Zealand and Oceania), Gunilla Holm (from North America) and Charles Feixa and Henk Vinken (for Europe including Russian Federation and Confederation of Independent States), all have organized regional events and shared information, discussed issues of common interest, promoted research collaboration, and organized training programmes for youth researchers in their own regions. RC34 has also been involved in initiating a Masters of Science course in youth studies. We have already organized two planning meetings for the MA programme (in Salerno February. 2005 and in Strasbourg February 2006. The next meeting will be in Finland, September 2006).
With respect to publication’s, our mutual ambitions have coalesced with three publication projects under the auspices of RC34, all of which have come to fruition (see issue 7).
And last, but not least, we have changed the dues to 50 dollars, with a 10-dollar discount, which helps certain colleagues to benefit from reduced ISA membership fees due to region of residence or student status. Organisational Secretary Howard Williamson and Treasurer Reingard Spannring have taken the responsibility of membership fees.
6. Newsletters in 2004, 2005 and through May 2006
International Bulletin of Youth Research
(James Côté, Editor)
IBYR: http://www.alli.fi/youth/research/ibyr/index.htm
The website is maintained at the University of Helsinki by Arnseniy Svynarenko, a Doctoral student and RC34 member. The site has been available to RC34 free since it was first launched and financed by Helena Helve several years ago. In 2003, the ISA made 600 Euro available to RC34 to pay Mr. Svynarenko to completely overhaul of IBYR, including its platform, design, and contents. The new website is much easier to navigate, is less burdensome on older computers and servers, and contains a message board that enables RC34 member to post messages regarding events in their parts of the world and to ask questions of other RC34 members.
The new website also has a new usage meter (NEDSTAT) which keeps track of all website hits and page views. Since the new IBYR website was launched on October 21, 2003, it has had averaged about 15 page views per day, with peaks of activity close to major events.
Mr. Svynarenko continues to maintain IBYR as a professional courtesy. Doing so takes him on average between ½ and 1 hour per day averaged over a month. His normal activities include posting material that the Editor sends him. To post this material he needs to edit the appropriate page, check the external hyperlinks and integrity of the site, and upload of the updated content to the server.
Important announcement are brought to the attention of members via a mailing list James Côté maintain from the University of Western Ontario. However, this mailing list has encountered problems with spammers sending messages on it and the continual changing of email addresses by members. When members do not apprise us of their new address, the message gets bounced back. In addition, when first set up, we hoped that members would freely submit information about themselves and events in their regions, but for the most part, this has not happened, making it very difficult to collect information that might be used as a newsletter (below). This has been the experience with many mailing lists/listservs in other Societies where members are not tightly bound in their research endeavours and are spread out around the world.
Generally, however, people visit IBYR for new information as well as for background information on youth studies and the activities of RC34. We have not attempted to produce a regularly released newsletter, in part because of the time involved in putting it together and in part because there has not been a demand for this from the membership. Moreover, increasingly, spam filters are blocking messages that are sent as newsletters, and some people are tired of receiving so many newsletters that often contain little information but are sent perfunctorily according to a pre-set schedule. Instead, we have treated IBYR as a “bulletin board” on which notices are posted for those who want to take a look. Of course, usage peaks when we do send emails to members apprising them of upcoming events. The next editor may choose to restructure the site to be more of a newsletter.
During the current activity period, the IBYR (International Bulletin of Youth Research) site has posted current information of several pages: News & Message Board, Information of Research Centres, New Publications and Courses, Activities Reports, Future Events and Diaries of Members. Some of these postings include the book The Central European Dimension of Youth Research (2005) ed. Ladislav Machacek and articles: Brief Introduction to the Trends of Contemporary Youth and Juvenile Studies in China by Jin Zhikun and Yang Xiong and Youth Research in South Africa by David Everatt.
7. Publications of RC34
1) Helve & Holm (eds.): Contemporary Youth Research: Local Expressions and Global Connections, 2005 Ashgate: England and USA
A book by the authors from RC34:
A major new resource book for academics and students of youth studies, this work offers a rare comparative review of a field which is often focused on the local or national situation. Drawing together authors from across the world, the book combines assessments of the theory, methodology and practice of youth research, and the impact of globalization on this field of study. A particular strength of the text is its exploration of theoretical issues of globalization through substantial pieces of empirical work, some of which cover regions frequently overlooked in the international youth research scene, such as South East Asia and Eastern Europe.
Contents Introduction. Overview of Youth Research Globally: Conceptualizing and theorizing youth: global perspectives, Vappu Tyyskä. Trends in youth research globally; Youth research in Europe, Helena Helve, Carmen Leccardi and Siyka Kovacheva; Youth research in Africa, David Everatt; Trends in youth studies in (English-speaking) North America, James Côté; The socio- cultural construction of youth in Latin America: achievements and failures, Carles Feixa Pampols and Yanko González Cangas; Contemporary trends in youth and juvenile studies in China, Jin Zhikun and Yang Xiong; Youth research in Australia and New Zealand, Johanna Wyn. Current Trends in Youth Research: Education, Technology and Work: Biographical turning points in young people’s transitions to work across Europe, Manuela du Bois-Reymond and Barbara Stauber; Texting as style: preliminary observations on cellular phone use among Filipino college students, Clarence M. Batan; Risk among youth in modern Russia: problems and trends, Julia A. Zubok; An attempt to reverse the failure of rural youth development in South Africa, David Everatt, Sipho Shezi and Ross Jennings; Cross-cultural understanding: service-learning in college coursework, Gunilla Holm and Paul Farber. Youth Engagement: Latina/o youth contest for equity in the public school system in Boyle Heights, Los Angeles: a political and theoretical perspective, Fazila Bhimji; Young people’s civic engagement. The need for new perspectives, Henk Vinken; Learning to destroy the world: western schooling and the natural environment, Thomas Ray; Culture and identity in a culturally diverse and global world; ‘Remaking citizens’: perspectives from the lived temporalities of four Singaporean youths, Yen Yen Joyceln Woo; Mobilizing a lesbian identity as a means for educational achievement: Mizrachi lesbians in Israel, Liora Gvion and Diana Luzzatto; Cool nostalgia: Indian American youth culture and the politics of authenticity, Sunaina Maira; Teenage pregnancy in Mexico: why the panic?, Noemi Ehrenfeld Lenkiewicz; Index.
Reviews ‘This timely book provides a very welcome global focus to youth research and makes a bold attempt to establish youth studies as a distinct discipline within the social sciences. Readers will particularly value the range of perspectives that form this collection.’ Professor Andy Furlong, University of Glasgow, UK
2) Nilan & Feixa (eds.): Global Youth? Hybrid identities, plural worlds, 2006 Routledge: England, USA and Canada
3) Leccardi & Ruspini (eds.) A New Youth? Young People, Generations and Family Life, 2005 Ashgate: England and USA
4) Collaboration with Nordic Journal of Youth Research
YOUNG
Young is an interdisciplinary journal of youth research. With the object of strengthening dialogues between countries, disciplines and traditions. YOUNG is a forum for discussion of empirical results as well as issues of theory and method. It is aimed at researchers, students and all who are interested in youth questions. The first 10 issues, from 1993 to 2002 are available online at IBYR and all abstracts of articles. Young has offered a special price for RC34 members.