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.
Table of Contents
Table of ContentsINTRODUCTIONChapter 1: Realigning theory, practice and justice in Global South youth studiesAdam Cooper, Sharlene Swartz, Clarence M. Batan, and Laura Kropff CausaPART 1: THE SOUTH AND SOUTHERN YOUTHChapter 2: Why, when, and how the Global South became relevantAdam CooperChapter 3: Youth of the Global South and why they are worth studyingAdam Cooper, Sharlene Swartz, and Molemo RamphalileChapter 4: Global South youth studies, its forms and differences among the South, and between the North and SouthClarence M. Batan, Adam Cooper, Jim E. Côté, Alan France, Terri-Ann Gilbert-Roberts, Siri Hettige, Ana Miranda, Pam Nilan, Joschka Philipps, and Paul UgorChapter 5: Southern theory and how it aids in engaging Southern youthAnye-Nkwente Nyamnjoh and Robert MorrellPART 2: SOUTHERN PERSPECTIVES LINKING THEORETICAL CONCEPTS TO CONTEMPORARY ISSUESPersonhoodChapter 6: An indigenous Maori perspective of rangatahi personhoodAdreanne Ormond, Joanna Kidman, and Huia Tomlins JahnkeChapter 7: Personhood and youth-making in contemporary Indigenous AmazoniaPirjo Kristiina Virtanen and Alessandra Severino Da Silva ManchineryIntersectionalityChapter 8: Intersectionality, Black youth, and political activismPatricia Hill CollinsChapter 9: An intersectional approach to the "mobility trap" that ensnares migrant youth in ChinaXiaorong GuChapter 10: Reimaging intersectionality and social exclusion in South AfricaKhosi Kubeka and Sharmla RamaViolencesChapter 11: Unearthing historical violence in the lives of Filipino Istambays using Rizal's theory of the colonial PhilippinesClarence M. BatanChapter 12: Violences in the South African student movementBuhle KhanyileDe- and post-colonialityChapter 13: Tagore's vision of postcolonial youth futurities in education and literatureSreemoyee DasguptaChapter 14: Coloniality, racialization, and epistemicide in African youth mobilitiesJoshua Kalemba and David FarrugiaChapter 15: Youth life writing in a postcolonial worldTitas De SarkarConsciousnessChapter 16: From Black Consciousness to Consciousness Of BlacknessXolela MangcuChapter 17: Home, belonging, and Africanity in the film Black PantherRagi BashongaChapter 18: Youth digital anti-racism activism in Brazil and ColombiaNiousha RoshaniPrecarityChapter 19: Youth employment, informality, and precarity in the Global SouthShailaja FennellChapter 20: Family, child labour, and social welfare in PeruJosé Vidal Chávez CruzadoChapter 21: Precarity, fixers, and new imaginative subjectivities of youth in urban CameroonDivine FuhFluid modernitiesChapter 22: A South East Asian perspective on the role for the sociology of generations in building a global youth studiesDan Woodman, Clarence M. Batan, and Oki Rahadianto SutopoChapter 23: Mapping social change through youth perspectives on homosexuality in IndiaKeshia D'silvaChapter 24: Fluid multilingual practices among youth in Cameroon and MozambiqueTorun Reite, Francis Badiang Oloko, and Manuel Armando GuissemoOntological insecurityChapter 25: Ontological well-being and the effects of race in South AfricaCrain SoudienChapter 26: Venezuelan youth and the routinization of conflictInés Rojas AvendañoNavigational capacitiesChapter 27: Navigational capacities for Southern youth in adverse contextsSharlene SwartzChapter 28: First generation students navigating educational aspirations in Zanzibar and GhanaEmily Markovich Morris and Millicent AdjeiChapter 29: Rural Indonesian youth's conceptions of successRara Sekar Larasati, Bronwyn Wood, and Ben K. C. LaksanaCollective agencyChapter 30: Necropolitics and young Mapuche activists as a public menace in ArgentinaLaura Kropff CausaChapter 31: Youth protagonism in urban IndiaRoshni K. NuggehalliChapter 32: Silence as collective resistance among Adivasi youth in IndiaGunjan WadhwaEmancipationChapter 33: Youth emancipation and theologies of domination, resistance, assistance, and prosperityMokong S. Mapadimeng and Sharlene SwartzChapter 34: The unfinished emancipation of Egyptian youth in the 2011 uprisingAmani El NaggarePART 3: SOUTHERN REPRESENTATIONS, RESEARCH, INTERVENTIONS, AND POLICYChapter 35: Representations of young people and neoliberal developmentalism in the Global SouthJudith BessantChapter 36: Researching the South on its on terms as a matter of justiceJessica Breakey, Anye-Nkwenti Nyamnjoh, and Sharlene SwartzChapter 37: Social Network Interviewing as an emancipatory Southern methodological innovationSharlene Swartz and Alude MahaliChapter 38: Freirean inspired trialogues to empower youth to solve local community challengesUlisses F. Araujo, Viviane Pinheiro, and Valeria ArantesChapter 39: Youth, social contracting, and the postcolonyDavid EverattCONCLUSIONChapter 40: A Southern charter for a Global Youth Studies to benefit the worldSharlene SwartzIndex
