Full Description
Ninety percent of the world's youth live in Africa, Latin America and the developing countries of Asia. Despite this, the field of Youth Studies, like many others, is dominated by the knowledge economy of the Global North. To address these geo-political inequalities of knowledge, The Oxford Handbook of Global South Youth Studies offers a contribution from Southern scholars to remake Youth Studies from its current state, that universalises Northern perspectives, into a truly Global Youth Studies.
Contributors from across various regions of the Global South, including from the Diaspora, Indigenous and Aboriginal communities, locate and define "the Global South", articulate the necessity of studying Southern lives to enrich, re-interpret, legitimate and offer symmetry to Youth Studies, and utilize and innovate Southern theory to do so. Eleven concepts are re-imagined and re-presented throughout the Handbook--personhood, intersectionality, violences, de- and post-coloniality, consciousness, precarity, fluid modernities, ontological insecurity, navigational capacities, collective agency and emancipation. The outcome is a series of everyday practices such as hustling, navigating, fixing, waiting, being on standby, silence, and life-writing, that demonstrate how youth living in adversity experiment with and push back against routine and conformity, and how research may support them in these endeavors and, simultaneously, redefine the relationships between knowledge, practice and politics-what the volume editors term "epistepraxis". The Handbook concludes with a nascent charter for a Global Youth Studies of benefit to the world, that no longer excludes, assumes or elides but rather includes new possibilities for representing youth, researching amongst them, and devising policies and interventions to better serve them.
This volume is a critical addition to the field of Youth Studies and one that should be of interest to scholars, researchers, and students working in this area in both the Global North and South.
Contents
Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION
Chapter 1: Realigning theory, practice and justice in Global South youth studies
Adam Cooper, Sharlene Swartz, Clarence M. Batan, and Laura Kropff Causa
PART 1: THE SOUTH AND SOUTHERN YOUTH
Chapter 2: Why, when, and how the Global South became relevant
Adam Cooper
Chapter 3: Youth of the Global South and why they are worth studying
Adam Cooper, Sharlene Swartz, and Molemo Ramphalile
Chapter 4: Global South youth studies, its forms and differences among the South, and between the North and South
Clarence M. Batan, Adam Cooper, Jim E. Côté, Alan France, Terri-Ann Gilbert-Roberts, Siri Hettige, Ana Miranda, Pam Nilan, Joschka Philipps, and Paul Ugor
Chapter 5: Southern theory and how it aids in engaging Southern youth
Anye-Nkwente Nyamnjoh and Robert Morrell
PART 2: SOUTHERN PERSPECTIVES LINKING THEORETICAL CONCEPTS TO CONTEMPORARY ISSUES
Personhood
Chapter 6: An indigenous Maori perspective of rangatahi personhood
Adreanne Ormond, Joanna Kidman, and Huia Tomlins Jahnke
Chapter 7: Personhood and youth-making in contemporary Indigenous Amazonia
Pirjo Kristiina Virtanen and Alessandra Severino Da Silva Manchinery
Intersectionality
Chapter 8: Intersectionality, Black youth, and political activism
Patricia Hill Collins
Chapter 9: An intersectional approach to the "mobility trap" that ensnares migrant youth in China
Xiaorong Gu
Chapter 10: Reimaging intersectionality and social exclusion in South Africa
Khosi Kubeka and Sharmla Rama
Violences
Chapter 11: Unearthing historical violence in the lives of Filipino Istambays using Rizal's theory of the colonial Philippines
Clarence M. Batan
Chapter 12: Violences in the South African student movement
Buhle Khanyile
De- and post-coloniality
Chapter 13: Tagore's vision of postcolonial youth futurities in education and literature
Sreemoyee Dasgupta
Chapter 14: Coloniality, racialization, and epistemicide in African youth mobilities
Joshua Kalemba and David Farrugia
Chapter 15: Youth life writing in a postcolonial world
Titas De Sarkar
Consciousness
Chapter 16: From Black Consciousness to Consciousness Of Blackness
Xolela Mangcu
Chapter 17: Home, belonging, and Africanity in the film Black Panther
Ragi Bashonga
Chapter 18: Youth digital anti-racism activism in Brazil and Colombia
Niousha Roshani
Precarity
Chapter 19: Youth employment, informality, and precarity in the Global South
Shailaja Fennell
Chapter 20: Family, child labour, and social welfare in Peru
José Vidal Chávez Cruzado
Chapter 21: Precarity, fixers, and new imaginative subjectivities of youth in urban Cameroon
Divine Fuh
Fluid modernities
Chapter 22: A South East Asian perspective on the role for the sociology of generations in building a global youth studies
Dan Woodman, Clarence M. Batan, and Oki Rahadianto Sutopo
Chapter 23: Mapping social change through youth perspectives on homosexuality in India
Keshia D'silva
Chapter 24: Fluid multilingual practices among youth in Cameroon and Mozambique
Torun Reite, Francis Badiang Oloko, and Manuel Armando Guissemo
Ontological insecurity
Chapter 25: Ontological well-being and the effects of race in South Africa
Crain Soudien
Chapter 26: Venezuelan youth and the routinization of conflict
Inés Rojas Avendaño
Navigational capacities
Chapter 27: Navigational capacities for Southern youth in adverse contexts
Sharlene Swartz
Chapter 28: First generation students navigating educational aspirations in Zanzibar and Ghana
Emily Markovich Morris and Millicent Adjei
Chapter 29: Rural Indonesian youth's conceptions of success
Rara Sekar Larasati, Bronwyn Wood, and Ben K. C. Laksana
Collective agency
Chapter 30: Necropolitics and young Mapuche activists as a public menace in Argentina
Laura Kropff Causa
Chapter 31: Youth protagonism in urban India
Roshni K. Nuggehalli
Chapter 32: Silence as collective resistance among Adivasi youth in India
Gunjan Wadhwa
Emancipation
Chapter 33: Youth emancipation and theologies of domination, resistance, assistance, and prosperity
Mokong S. Mapadimeng and Sharlene Swartz
Chapter 34: The unfinished emancipation of Egyptian youth in the 2011 uprising
Amani El Naggare
PART 3: SOUTHERN REPRESENTATIONS, RESEARCH, INTERVENTIONS, AND POLICY
Chapter 35: Representations of young people and neoliberal developmentalism in the Global South
Judith Bessant
Chapter 36: Researching the South on its on terms as a matter of justice
Jessica Breakey, Anye-Nkwenti Nyamnjoh, and Sharlene Swartz
Chapter 37: Social Network Interviewing as an emancipatory Southern methodological innovation
Sharlene Swartz and Alude Mahali
Chapter 38: Freirean inspired trialogues to empower youth to solve local community challenges
Ulisses F. Araujo, Viviane Pinheiro, and Valeria Arantes
Chapter 39: Youth, social contracting, and the postcolony
David Everatt
CONCLUSION
Chapter 40: A Southern charter for a Global Youth Studies to benefit the world
Sharlene Swartz
Index
