Description: Cross-cutting essays examine how education shapes future citizens, young people's use of urban domestic space, and the media's role in expanding the life worlds of youth.
Review Quotes:
"This work offers a rich opportunity to witness the dynamics of youth development amid the tumult of poverty, hunger, crime, and desperation in various global communities. Along with a variety of researchers, anthropologist Hansen (Northwestern Univ.) illuminates the difficulties of growing up in the cities of Recife, in Brazil; Hanoi; and Lusaka, in Zambia. Youth face a multitude of poor choices and social impediments within their communities. However, Hansen and her colleagues also focus on the power of cultural nuances and messages that emerge within these communities. Further, the text shows how youth foster meaning in their lives to ensure that they utilize education, the political arena, and even the media in the most appropriate ways for them. While there are many uses for this text, Hansen's collaboration is best suited for library collections focusing on international human rights and youth. Summing Up: Recommended. General and graduate collections. --CHOICE"--D. E. Kelly, Adelphi University, July 2009
"The participants in this project issued themselves quite a challenge in bringing the results of a large study together in a book form. Given the task, they did admirably."--Ethnos
"This work offers a rich opportunity to witness the dynamics of youth development amid the tumult of poverty, hunger, crime, and desperation in various global communities. . . . While there are many uses for this text, Hansen's collaboration is best suited for library collections focusing on international human rights and youth. . . . Recommended.July 2009"--Choice
". . . an important volume that demonstrates the value of multi-sited collaborative research.Vol. 17.3 2009"--DANIEL MAINS, Washington University in St. Louis
"Presents groundbreaking comparative research and makes a powerful, nuanced case for understanding the problems and dilemmas of youth in the global South."--Bradley Levinson, Indiana University