This fascinating collection of original essays seeks to address the possibilities and dangers of young people's transnational, commodified identities; how society and educational institutions might respond to these new identities; and the consequences for democratic practices and the public sphere. Drawing together contributions from the work of both well known and emerging scholars, this collection highlights the practices of youth's identities in the context of broadly defined educative sites, including schools, media and popular culture, community organisations, cyberspace, music, and urban landscapes.
Introduction: Youth, Mobility, and Identity Section 1: New Times, New Identities 1. The Global Corporate Curriculum and the Young Cyberflâneur as Global Citizen 2. Shoot the Elephant: Antagonistic Identities, Neo-Marxist Nostalgia, and the Remorselessly Vanishing Past 3. New Textual Worlds: Young People and Computer Games Section 2: Diasporic Youth: Rethinking Borders and Boundaries in the New Modernity 4. Consuming Difference: Stylish Hybridity, Diasporic Identity, and the Politics of Culture 5. Diasporan Moves: African Canadian Youth and Identity Formation 6. Popular Culture and Recognition: Narratives of Youth and Latinidad 7. Mobile Students in Liquid Modernity: Negotiating the Politics of Transnational Identities Section 3: Youth and the Global Context: Transforming Us Where We Live 8. The Children of Liberalization: Youth Agency and Globalization in India 9. Youth Cultures of Consumption in Johannesburg 10. Identities for Neoliberal Times: Constructing Enterprising Selves in an American Suburb 11. Disciplining "Generation M": The Paradox of Creating a "Local" National Identity in an Era of "Global" Flows 12. Marginalization, Identity Formation, and Empowerment: Youth's Struggles for Self and Social Justice
