Table of Contents
Contents: Preface; Introduction. Part I Overview of Youth Research Globally: Conceptualizing and theorizing youth: global perspectives, Vappu Tyyskä; 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. Part II Current Trends in Youth Research: Topic area 1, 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; Topic area 2, 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; Topic area 3, 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.
