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This book explores the linguistic and social practices related to same-sex desires and identities that were widely attested in the USA during the years preceding the police raid on the Stonewall Inn in 1969.
Method and Postmethod in Language Teaching provides a comprehensive, accessible, and engaging guide to the much-debated notions of 'method', 'methods', and 'postmethod' in language teaching.
Using a phenomenological and multi-sited ethnographic approach, this book focuses on children's uses of digital media in three sites-London, Casablanca and Beirut-and situates the study of Arab children and screen media within a wider frame, making connections between local, regional and global media content.
This book sheds critical light on the routinely debated issue of how to create sustainable, equitable and meaningful partnerships between visual art organisations and youth organisations.
This book explores young people's civic experiences in contemporary American society, and how they navigate the political world in an era defined by digital media.
This book revolves around neoliberal notions governing children and youth - a trend that permeates and dominates contemporary perceptions of "e;the young.
This collection examines LEGO from an array of critical and cultural studies approaches, foregrounding the world-renowned brand's ideological power and influence.
From Saturday Night Fever to Jersey Shore, Italian American youth in New York City have appropriated-and been appropriated by-popular American culture.
This volume offers a diachronic sociolinguistic perspective on one of the most complex and fascinating variable speech phenomena in contemporary French.
This book engages non-digital role-playing games-such as table-top RPGs and live-action role-plays-in and from Japan, to sketch their possibilities and fluidities in a global context.
In this book, Professor Ole Jacob Madsen analyses the implications of Scandinavia's current concern for the mental health problems of adolescents, said to be struggling in the face of increasing demands for achievement and success.
This edited volume sheds light on the lives of young people in various central and peripheral regions of Russia, including youth belonging to different ethnic and religious groups and who have differing views on contemporary politics.
The growth of the American high school that occurred in the twentieth century is among the most remarkable educational, social, and cultural phenomena of the twentieth century.
This handbook addresses the methodological problems and theoretical challenges that arise in attempting to understand and represent humour in specific historical contexts across cultural history.
By examining cultural consumption, tastes and imaginaries as a means of relating to the world, this book describes the effects of globalization on young people from an aesthetic and cultural perspective.
This book explores the prevailing role of rites of passage, ritual, and ceremony in contemporary children's lives through the lens of modern-day incarnations of uniformed youth movements.
This book examines the relation between the phenomenon of globalization, changes in the lifeworld of young people and the development of specific youth cultures.
This book takes a global perspective to address the concept of belonging in youth studies, interrogating its emergence as a reoccurring theme in the literature and elucidating its benefits and shortcomings.
This collection reflects on the emerging phenomenon of 'selfie citizenship', which capitalises on individual visibility and agency, at the time when citizenship itself is increasingly governed through biometrics and large-scale dataisation.
This collection brings together perspectives drawn from a range of international scholars who have conducted research into the applications of neo-tribal theory.
Taking a transnational approach to the study of film culture, this book draws on ethnographic fieldwork in a South Korean university film club to explore a cosmopolitan cinephile subculture that thrived in an ironic unevenness between the highly nationalistic mood of commercial film culture and the intense neoliberal milieu of the 2000s.
This volume provides an in-depth analysis of the attempts of language experts and governments to control language use and development in Eastern Europe, Eurasia and China through planned activities generally known as language planning or language policy.
This book analyses articles that appeared in popular periodicals from the 1920s to the present, each revealing the panic that parents and adults have expressed about media including radio, television, video games and the Internet for the last century.
Der Band bietet eine Zusammenschau theoretischer und praktischer Perspektiven, die sich rund um das Thema Videospiel, die Erhaltung von Information und die Beharrung auf traditionellen Designparadigmen ergeben.
Der Band liefert eine Bestandsaufnahme der bisherigen Entwicklungen von HipHop in Deutschland und geht der Vielfältigkeit der Zugänge, den Formen der inhaltlichen Auseinandersetzungen sowie der Ausdrucksformen nach.
Bisher gibt es keine umfassende und kohärente Annäherung an die Bestimmung der an der Konstruktion von Gruppenidentitäten beteiligten kommunikativen und präkommunikativen Prozesse.
Heritage languages, such as the Turkish varieties spoken in Berlin or the Spanish used in Los Angeles, are non-dominant languages, often with little prestige.
