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Oxford Handbook of Global South Youth Studies
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…
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Making Space for Youth in Contemporary Italy
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…
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Aesthetico-Cultural Cosmopolitanism and French Youth The Taste of the World
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…
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Youth and Globalization
Youth and Globalization is an academic forum for discussion and exchanges, a space for intellectual creativity on all questions relating to youth in a globalizing world. Its aim is to provide an innovative understanding of youth studies in a global context based on multiscalar (both local and global), multilevel (economic, political, social), transnational, and…
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Youth Futures: Connection and Mobility in the Asia Pacific
15 – 16 November 2018 9.00 am to 4.00 pm Deakin Downtown Deadline: 14 May 2018 The Alfred Deakin Institute’s flagship conference for 2018 will explore the increasingly interlinked, complex and uncertain world that young people across the Asia-Pacific live in. Event details Young people across the Asia-Pacific live in increasingly interlinked, complex and uncertain…
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Young people, well-being, resilience and enterprise: critical perspectives for the Anthropocene
Disparate times call for disparate methods. Let’s just say that this is the end of prehistory, this moment when planetary constraints start really coming to bear on the ever-expanding universe of the commodification of everything. This is the worldviewchanging realization that some now call the Anthropocene. (McKenzie Wark 2016) On the ‘sidelines’ @ XIX…
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Special Issue “Young People, Risk and Opportunity Across the Globe”
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…
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ISA – Global Mapping of Sociologists for Social Inclusion (GMSSI)
The International Sociological Association has undertaken the development of the Global Mapping of Sociologists for Social Inclusion (GMSSI) to create the global database of sociologists. GMSSI aims to identify, connect, and enable global collaborations in sociology, and support sociologists who encounter multiple barriers, economic and political, which impede participation in global exchanges. GMSSI aims to…
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Youth Transitions in Challenging Times
26th ANNUAL WORKSHOP SEPTEMBER, 5-8, 2018 The 26th annual workshop of the European Research Network on Transitions in Youth (TIY) will take place in Mannheim, Germany, from 5 to 8 September 2018. The workshop will be hosted by the Mannheim Centre for European Social Research (Mannheimer Zentrum für Europäische Sozialforschung, MZES), University of Mannheim.…
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ISA Research Committee 34 (Sociology of Youth): Election of the new Board
Dear Colleagues/Friends, Now is the time to prepare for the election of a new Board to co-ordinate the work of ISA Research Committee 34 (Sociology of Youth) for the next four years. Responsibilities ebb and flow and we are a modest, though important network. The main task is to provide support and profile for…