Keywords in Youth Studies Tracing Affects, Movements, Knowledges [Paperback]

With recent attention to issues such as youth social exclusion, poverty, school underachievement, school violence, gang activity, sexuality, and youths interactions with media and the internet, youth studies has emerged as a significant interdisciplinary field. It has moved beyond its roots in subcultural studies to encompass a diverse array of disciplines, subfields, and theoretical orientations. Yet no volume exists that systematically presents and puts into dialogue the fields areas of focus and approaches to research.

As a unique blend of reference guide, conceptual dictionary, and critical assessment, Keywords in Youth Studiespresents and historicizes the state of the field. It offers theoretically-informed analysis of key concepts, and points to possibilities for youth studies reconstruction. Contributors include internationally-renowned field experts who trace the origins, movements, and uses and meanings of keywords such as resistance, youth violence, surveillance, and more. The blending of section essays with focused keywords offers beginning and advanced readers multiple points of entry into the text and connections across concepts. A must-read for graduate students, faculty, and researchers across a range of disciplines, this extraordinary new book promotes new interdisciplinary approaches to youth research and advocacy.

An Introduction to Seven Technologies of Youth Studies, Susan Talburt and Nancy Lesko

Section I: A History of the Present of Youth Studies, Susan Talburt and Nancy Lesko

1. Biology/Nature, Elizabeth Seaton
2. (Dis)ability, Beth A. Ferri
3. Juvenile Justice, Erica Meiners
4. Leisure, Carles Feixa

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