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SUMMARY:Adolescence: rhetoric\, representations\, realities discussion (1)
  Lost Youth in the Global City: Class\, Culture and the Urban Imaginary - 
 Dr Jo-Anne Dillabough
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CONTACT:Ewa Illakowicz
DESCRIPTION:In the Lent and Easter terms of this academic year (2009-2010)
  Maria Nikolajeva and Mary Hilton will be holding an interdisciplinary dis
 cussion group on teenage life. We hope to draw out in-depth discussion on 
 the ways that the second decade of life is characterised by physical chang
 es to the body and brain\, the differential nature of teenage experience\,
  and the wide-ranging ways experience and existence is represented and ena
 cted in Young Adult fictions\, in theatre\, school\, home and politics. Ou
 r overall ground plan is very capacious at this stage as we are hoping to 
 involve a range of members of the faculty with a view to feeding ideas int
 o the forth-coming Faculty conference The Emergent Adult (September 3-5\, 
 2010). The discussion group will be held throughout Lent and Easter terms 
 on every third Monday late afternoon 5- 6.30pm starting Monday 18th Januar
 y. Each session will be led by a discussant who will address a key reading
  which will be circulated beforehand to participants. This might be an imp
 ortant article or chapter that has informed or changed the discussant's ou
 tlook or work in progress by the discussant.\nTHEMES:\nYouth Cultures\nRep
 resentations of teenage existence\, theatre and enactments\nAgency (in tex
 ts and in life)\nThe body\, the brain and mind - growth and change\nThe fa
 mily - ambiguous status as young adult\nSchool\, work and daily grind\n\n*
 Lost Youth in the Global City: Class\, Culture and the Urban Imaginary*\n\
 nWhat does it mean to be young\, to be economically disadvantaged\, and to
  be subject to constant surveillance both from the formal agencies of the 
 state and from the informal challenge of competing youth groups? What is l
 ife like for young people living on the fringe of global cities in late- m
 odernity\, no longer at the centre of city life\, but pushed instead to ne
 w and insecure margins of the urban inner-city? How are changing patterns 
 of migration and work\, along with shifting gender roles and expectations\
 , impacting marginalized youth in the radically transformed urban city of 
 the twenty- first century?\n\nIn Lost Youth in the Global City\, Jo- Anne 
 Dillabough and Jacqueline Kennelly focus on young people who live at the m
 argins of urban centres\, the 'edges' where low- income\, immigrant and ot
 her disenfranchised youth are increasingly finding and defining themselves
 . Taking the imperative of multi-sited ethnography and urban youth culture
 s as a starting point\, this rich and layered book offers a detailed explo
 ration of the ways in which these groups of young people\, marked by econo
 mic disadvantage and ethnic and religious diversity\, have sought to navig
 ate a new urban terrain and\, in so doing\, have come to see themselves in
  new ways. By giving these young people shape and form - both looking acro
 ss their experiences in different cities and attending to their particular
 ities - Lost Youth in the Global City (to be published in Feb 2010) sets a
  productive and generative agenda for the field of critical youth studies.
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LOCATION: MAB 104\, Mary Allan Building\, Homerton College\, Hills Road\, 
 Cambridge CB2 8PQ
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