Research Catalog

Title

Figuring the future : globalization and the temporalities of children and youth / edited by Jennifer Cole and Deborah Durham.

Publication

Santa Fe, N.M. : School for Advanced Research Press, c2008.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Cole, Jennifer, 1966-
• Durham, Deborah Lynn, 1958-

Description

xi, 302 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Summary

"To address how and why youth and children have come to seem so important to globalization, the contributors to this volume look at both the spatial relations of globalization and the temporal dimensions, examining the reality behind truisms such as "youth are the future" or "children are our hope for the future." Discourses of, and practices by, youth and children bring the new temporal conjunctions of globalization into relationship with people's negotiations of the life course. Reaching from the design of children's toys to youth political mobilization, such discourses and practices are critical sites through which people everywhere conceive of, produce, contest, and naturalize the new futures."--Jacket.

Series Statement

School for Advanced Research advanced seminar series

Uniform Title

School for Advanced Research advanced seminar series.

Subject

• Children > Social conditions > 21st century
• Youth > Social conditions > 21st century
• Globalization > Social aspects
• Globalisierung
• Kind
• Jugend
• Soziale Situation
• Zukunft

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 261-294) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction : globalization and the temporality of children and youth / Jennifer Cole and Deborah Durham -- Childhood and youth as an American/global experience in the context of the past / Paula S. Fass -- Imagining global futures in China : the child as a sign of value / Ann Anagnost -- "The Chinese girls" and "The Pokémon kids" : children negotiating dfferences in urban California / Barrie Thorne -- Fashioning distinction : youth and consumerism in urban Madagascar / Jennifer Cole -- Private anxieties and public hopes : the perils and promise of youth in the context of globalization / Constance A. Flanagan -- Apathy and agency : the romance of agency and youth in Botswana / Deborah Durham -- Pocket capitalism and virtual intimacy : Pokémon as symptom of postindustrial youth culture / Anne Allison -- Chronic Mobb asks a blessing : apocalyptic hip-hop and the global crisis / Brad Weiss -- Globalization from way below : Brazilian streets, a youth, and world society / Tobias Hecht.

ISBN

• 9781934691052 (pbk.)
• 1934691054 (pbk.)
• 97819346910502 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

^^2008007920

OCLC

• 212375943
• SCSB-12352630

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library