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We are happy to inform you that the last issue of “AboutGender” has been just published. The issue, edited by Sebastiano Benasso, Helena Helve and Maurizio Merico, deals with “Between Cultures and Transitions: Gender Perspectives in Youth Studies”, and contains papers by – Dan Woodman – Clarence M. Batan – Simon Moses Schleimer – Gabriella…

Please find below the news about two publications by the Youth Research Centre of the The University of Melbourne (Australia):   Cook, J., & Cuervo, H. (2018). A longitudinal analysis of residential mobility from 1991-2017: Understanding generational patterns and inter-relationships. Melbourne, Australia: Youth Research Centre, Melbourne Graduate School of Education, University of Melbourne. Source: https://education.unimelb.edu.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0004/2783965/life-patterns-residential-mobility-report.pdf…

An invitation to contribute   The volume editors of the Oxford Handbook of Global South Youth Studies (forthcoming 2020), Sharlene Swartz, Adam Cooper, Clarence Batan and Rosa-Maria Camarena-Cordova, invite contributions and partnerships towards this important and exciting new project. Please feel free to circulate this call to other colleagues who you think will have a…

Special issue of “Journal of Modern Italian Studies” (23/1, 2018) Barbara Giovanna Bello and Valentina Cuzzocrea, guest editors   When it comes to youth, can we talk about an Italian case? How is the national societal landscape changing in relation to the factors that put youth in hard conditions? Are existing categories useful for studying…

Vincenzo Cicchelli & Sylvie Octobre ISBN 978-3-319-66311-1 Palgrave Macmillan, 2018   By examining cultural consumption, tastes and imaginaries as a means of relating to the world, this book describes the effects of globalization on young people from an aesthetic and cultural perspective. It employs the concept of aesthetico-cultural cosmopolitanism to analyse the emergence of an…

A special issue of Societies (ISSN 2075-4698). Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 September 2018   Special Issue Editor Guest Editor Dr. Howard Williamson Faculty of Business and Society, University of South Wales, Pontypridd, UK Website | E-Mail Interests: youth policy; youth work; social inclusion; substance misuse; youth justice   Special Issue Information Dear Colleagues, Youth…

Special Issue Title: Young people, risk and opportunity across the globe Journal: Societies Special Issue Editor: Howard Williamson Deadline for abstract submissions: 1st February 2018 Deadline full paper: 1st August 2018   Guest Editor Dr.  Howard Williamson Email: howard.williamson@southwales.ac.uk   Summary Youth studies, youth policy and youth work are on the move. Youth studies are…

YOUTH Christoph H. Schwarz & Anika Oettler Middle East ‐ Topics & Arguments, vol. 9/2017 The uprisings of 2011 challenged many predominant concepts of ‘youth’ in the Middle East and North Africa. The peer reviewed, open access journal META (Middle East – Topics & Arguments) dedicates its current thematic issue to youth research in the…

Elina Oinas, Henri Onodera, and Leena Suurpää (Eds.) ISBN13: 9789004322448; E-ISBN: 9789004356368 Brill, 2017   What Politics? Youth and Political Engagement in Africa examines the diverse experiences of being young in today’s Africa. It offers new perspectives to the roles and positions young people take to change their life conditions both within and beyond the…

S. Octobre, C. Dallaire (Eds.) ISBN : 978-2-7637-3591-7 (print); ISBN : 9782763735924 (electronic) Presses de l’Université Laval (PUL), 2017    Youth cultures evoke many images on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean: connected, globalized generations that neglect classic culture… This book examines the changes in youth cultures in France and in Quebec through a dialogue…