Mangaddicts: French Teenagers and Manga Reading

Mangaddicts: French Teenagers and Manga Reading

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  • Author: Christine Détrez
  • Publisher: BRILL
  • ISBN: 9004548319
  • Category : Business & Economics
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 293

Just pronounce the word “manga” and conflicted representations of media reception emerge: either passive teenagers immersed in Japanese fictional worlds, or hyperactive fans. To understand what drives a variety of teenagers to read manga, we conducted empirical research among French readers enrolled in secondary schools. Manga is part of a whole constellation of interests, including music and digital technology. It is also the object of analytical, ethical or concrete appropriations. Reading then becomes a way to deal with past experiences and to connect with others, to learn how to express emotions and to assert (or contest) age and gender norms.


Forms of Collective Engagement in Youth Transitions

Forms of Collective Engagement in Youth Transitions

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  • Publisher: BRILL
  • ISBN: 9004466347
  • Category : Family & Relationships
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 305

This collection sheds light on diverse forms of collective engagement among young people. Recent developments in youth studies, and the changing global shape of socio-economic conditions for young people, demand new approaches and ideas. Contributors focus on novel processes, practices and routines within youth collectivity in various contexts across the globe, including Indonesia, Spain, Italy, Norway and Poland. The chapters pay particular attention to transitional phases in the lives of young people. Conceptually, the book also explores the strengths and limitations of a focus on collectivity in youth studies. Ultimately, the book makes the case for a focus on forms of collectivity and engagement to help scholars think through contemporary experiences of shared social life among young people. Contributors are: Duncan Adam, Massimiliano Andretta, Roberta Bracciale, David Cairns, Diego Carbajo Padilla, Enzo Colombo, Valentina Cuzzocrea, Carles Feixa, Ben Gook, Izabela Grabowska, Natalia Juchniewicz, Ewa Krzaklewska, Wolfgang Lehmann, Michelle Mansfield, María Martinez, Ann Nilsen, Rebecca Raby, Paola Rebughini, Birgit Reißig, Bjørn Schiermer, Tabea Schlimbach, Melanie Simms, Benjamín Tejerina, Kristoffer C Vogt, and Natalia Waechter.


Young People in Complex and Unequal Societies

Young People in Complex and Unequal Societies

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  • Publisher: BRILL
  • ISBN: 9004507450
  • Category : Business & Economics
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 514

Youth studies in Latin America and Spain face numerous challenges. This book delves into youth experiences in the 21st century, shaped by complex and pressing issues: the surge of youth cultures and groups, visual images of youth throughout time, and fragmented youth experiences in radically unequal societies. It analyzes young people as precarious natives in global capitalism and labor uncertainty, juvenicide, feminist discourse, social networks, intimacy and sexual affection among young people in a context of growing claims of gender equality. Also included are rural and indigenous youth as political actors, the actions of young political activists within government administrations, the experience of youth migration and empowerment, and young people dealing with the digital world. How have youth studies approached these issues in Latin America and Spain? Which were the main developments and transformations in this research field over the past years? Where is it heading? Contributors are: Jorge Benedicto, Maritza Urteaga, Dolores Rocca, José Antonio Pérez Islas, Juan Carlos Revilla, Mariano Urraco, Almudena Moreno, Óscar Aguilera, Marcela Saá, Rafael Merino, Ana Miranda, Carles Feixa, Gonzalo Saraví, Antonio Santos-Ortega, David Muñoz-Rodríguez, Arantxa Grau-Muñoz, José Manuel Valenzuela, Silvia Elizalde, Mónica Figueras, Mittzy Arciniega, Nele Hansen, Tanja Strecker, Elisa G. de Castro, Melina Vázquez, René Unda, Daniel Llanos, Sonia Páez de la Torre, Pere Soler, Daniel Calderón, and Stribor Kuric.


Totalitarianism in the Postmodern Age

Totalitarianism in the Postmodern Age

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  • Author: Piotr Mazurkiewicz
  • Publisher: Brill
  • ISBN: 9789004524620
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  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 0

In Totalitarianism in the Postmodern Age Piotr Mazurkiewicz et al. seek to answer the question whether a possible spread of pre-totalitarian attitudes among youth may in the near future pose a threat to the contemporary liberal democratic societies. The authors offer a new approach to the study of totalitarian trends in European societies significantly different from the previous one exploring mainly the historical and institutional-procedural aspects. The book not only offers interesting conclusions drawn from empirical research but also proposes an intellectually attractive theoretical model of understanding totalitarianism that can be used for further research. The impulse for this reflection was the research work performed by the authors on a cohort of contemporary youths from seven countries of Central and Eastern Europe.


Postcolonial Youth in Contemporary British Fiction

Postcolonial Youth in Contemporary British Fiction

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  • Publisher: BRILL
  • ISBN: 9004464263
  • Category : Business & Economics
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 328

The concepts of 'youth' and the 'postcolonial' both inhabit a liminal locus where new ways of being in the world are rehearsed and struggle for recognition against the impositions of dominant power structures. Departing from this premise, the present volume focuses on the experience of postcolonial youngsters in contemporary Britain as rendered in fiction, thus envisioning the postcolonial as a site of fruitful and potentially transformative friction between different identitary variables or sociocultural interpellations. In so doing, this volume provides varied evidence of the ability of literature—and of the short story genre, in particular—to represent and swiftly respond to a rapidly changing world as well as to the new socio-cultural realities and conflicts affecting our current global order and the generations to come. Contributors are: Isabel M. Andrés-Cuevas, Isabel Carrera-Suárez, Claire Chambers, Blanka Grzegorczyk, Bettina Jansen, Indrani Karmakar, Carmen Lara-Rallo, Laura María Lojo-Rodríguez, Noemí Pereira-Ares, Gérald Préher, Susanne Reichl, Carla Rodríguez-González, Jorge Sacido-Romero, Karima Thomas and Laura Torres-Zúñiga.


Childhood Cultures in Transformation

Childhood Cultures in Transformation

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  • Author: Elin Eriksen Ødegaard
  • Publisher: Brill
  • ISBN: 9789004433656
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 296

The authors of Childhood Cultures in Transformation offers valuable examples, overviews and fresh critique after 30 years with the UNCRC in action. The book takes a Nordic glance and presents missing voices of children, young people, researchers and child experts.


Playful Trajectories and Experimentations

Playful Trajectories and Experimentations

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  • Author: Judit Vari
  • Publisher: BRILL
  • ISBN: 9004468919
  • Category : Psychology
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 108

The principal aim of this book is to discuss the role of video games in socialization of children and young people. The development of video games is a sign of and a factor in the democratization of modern societies.


Youth Policies and Unemployment in Europe

Youth Policies and Unemployment in Europe

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  • Author: Paola Giannoni
  • Publisher: BRILL
  • ISBN: 9004505040
  • Category : Business & Economics
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 112

In Youth Policies and Unemployment in Europe Paola Giannoni analyses the situation of the European youth regarding the changes in the job market dynamics and the strategies implemented by the EU for the social inclusion of young people.


Young Chinese Migrants: Compressed Individual and Global Condition

Young Chinese Migrants: Compressed Individual and Global Condition

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  • Author: Laurence Roulleau-Berger
  • Publisher: BRILL
  • ISBN: 9004463089
  • Category : Business & Economics
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 195

In China, strong economic growth over the past four decades, accelerated urbanisation and multiple inequalities between urban and rural worlds have driven the escalation of internal and international migrations. The internal migration of workers represents a unique phenomenon since the reform and opening of China. Less-qualified young migrants are living in subaltern conditions and young migrant graduates have strongly internalised the idea of being the "heroes" of the new Chinese society in a context of emotional capitalism. But internal and international migrations intersect and intertwine, young internal and international migrants from China produce economic cosmopolitanisms in Chinese society and through top-down, bottom-up and intermediary globalisation. The young Chinese migrant incarnates the Global Individual, what we labeled here as the Compressed Individual.


Youth, Religion, and Identity in a Globalizing Context

Youth, Religion, and Identity in a Globalizing Context

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  • Publisher: BRILL
  • ISBN: 9004388052
  • Category : Business & Economics
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 303

Youth, Religion, and Identity in a Globalizing Context investigates how young people navigate the intersections of religion and identity, exploring the different experiences of youth, the impact of community and processes of recognition, and the reality of ambivalence as agency.