Youth Cultures, Transitions, and Generations: Bridging the Gap in Youth Research

Within contemporary youth research there are two dominant streams - a 'transitions' and a 'cultures' perspective. This collection shows that it is no longer possible to understand the experience of young people through these prisms and proposes new conceptual foundations for youth studies, capable of bridging the gap between these approaches.

Table of Contents:
1. Cultures, Transitions and Generations: The case for a new youth studies; Dan Woodman and Andy Bennett 2. Transitions, Cultures and Identities: What is youth studies?; Andy Furlong 3. Complex worlds, Complex Identities: Complexity in Youth Studies; Johanna Wyn and Rob White 4. Speaking of Youth Culture: A Critical Analysis of Contemporary Youth Cultural Practice; Andy Bennett 5. Generations, Transitions and Culture as Practice: A Temporal Approach to Youth Studies; Dan Woodman and Carmen Leccardi 6. Waiting for the Weekend?: Nightlife Studies and the Convergence of Youth Transition and Youth Cultural Analyses; Robert G. Hollands 7. Transitions, Cultures and Citizenship: Interrogating and Integrating Youth Studies in New Times; Anita Harris 8. Bourdieurian Cultural Transitions: Young People Negotiating 'Fields' in their Pathways Into and Out of Crime; Dorothy Bottrell and Alan France 9. Sexy Selfies of the Transitioning Self; Airi-Alina Allaste and Katrin Tiidenberg 10. Transitioning to a New Manhood: Subcultures as Sites of Inclusive Masculinity; Ross Haenfler 11. Youth Political Subjectivity in the Global South: Crossing Conceptual Boundaries in Less Examined Contexts; Darcie Vandegrift 12. Applying Theoretical Paradigms to Indonesian Youth in Reflexive Modernity; Steven Threadgold and Pam Nilan 13. Toward a Different Youth Studies: Youth-and-researchers as Affective Assemblages; Susan Talburt and Nancy Lesko 14. Transitions, Cultures and the Future of Youth Research; Dan Woodman and Andy Bennett

About the Author :
Airi-Alina Allaste, Tallinn University, Estonia Andy Bennett, Griffith University, Australia Dorothy Bottrell, Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia Alan France, University of Auckland, New Zealand Andy Furlong, University of Glasgow, Scotland Ross Haenfler, University of Mississippi, USA Anita Harris, Monash University, Australia Robert Hollands, Newcastle University, UK Nancy Lesko, New York City, USA Pam Nilan, University of Newcastle, Australia Susan Talburt, Georgia State University, USA Katrin Tiidenberg, Tallinn University, Estonia Steve Threadgold, University of Newcastle, Australia Rob White, University of Tasmania Dan Woodman, University of Melbourne, Australia Johanna Wyn, The University of Melbourne and Academy of Social Sciences Australia Darcie Vandegrift, Drake University, Des Moines, USA