Age groups and generations

This book assesses the implications of how children and young people are represented in print media in Northern Ireland - a post-conflict transitioning society.

This new study explores how British youth was made, and how it made itself, over the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Focusing on narratives with supernatural components, Karen J.

Bringing together key theories and research in a unique integrative approach, Karen Rosen guides the reader through the fascinating and interrelated themes of attachment and the self.

This book is an academic work which reviews and critiques the research literature concerning violent games and their alleged effects on players.

This book represents a meeting of queer theorists and psychoanalysts around the figure of the child.

This edited collection speaks to and expands on existing debates around incarceration.

This book examines the fan-created combination of Doctor Who, Sherlock, and Supernatural as a uniquely digital fan experience, and as a metaphor for ongoing scholarship into contemporary fandom.

This book is a sociological study of Muslim youth culture in two global cities in the Asia Pacific: Singapore and Sydney.

This book considers the largely under-recognised contribution that young writers have made to life writing genres such as memoir, letter writing and diaries, as well as their innovative use of independent and social media.

This book analyzes the role of manga in contemporary Japanese political expression and debate, and explores its role in propagating new perceptions regarding Japanese history.

This book looks at the humor that artists and editors believed would have appeal in four different countries.

Through an investigation on how Palestinian youth appropriate low-end information and communication technologies (ICTs) and digital media forms, Sanjay Asthana and Nishan Havandjian analyze how certain developments in globalization and media convergence enable young people to create new civic spaces.

What is the child for Latin American cinema?

This book brings together historians, sociologists and social scientists to examine aspects of youth culture.

This book argues that Britain is gripped by an endemic and ongoing panic about the position of children in society - which frames them as, alternately, victims and threats.

This book undertakes an exploratory exercise in decolonizing criminology through engaging postcolonial and postdisciplinary perspectives and methodologies.

This book analyzes the Artists' House, a cultural center in Tehran, to place Iran's social and cultural transformation in a local-global context.

This book explores the use of English within otherwise local-language conversations by two continental European social media communities.

Falling somewhere between childhood and adulthood, 'Youth' is a key period of transition.

This book offers a rationale for and ways of reading popular culture for peace.

This book analyses parental anxieties about their children's healthcare issues in urban China, engaging with wider theoretical debates about modernity, risk and anxiety.

The authors examine youths' practices in digital culture affecting social change, pedagogy, and creative learning practices.

In this book, Faye Woods explores the raucous, cheeky, intimate voice of British youth television.

People play mobile games everywhere and at any time.

This book explores young people's practices and perceptions of sexting and how sexting has been represented and responded to by the media, education campaigns, and the law.

Drawing on comparative country case studies, this book explores student mobility in Europe, incorporating original theoretical perspectives to explain how mobility happens and new empirical evidence to illustrate how students become mobile within their present educational and future working lives.

The demise of state Socialisms caused radical social, cultural and economic changes in Eastern Europe.

With the aspiration for a long life now achievable for many individuals, the status of old age as a distinct social position has become problematic.

Drawing on hundreds of interviews with 15-22 year old straight and gay male athletes in both the United States and the United Kingdom, this book explores how jocks have redefined heterosexuality, and no longer fear being thought gay for behaviors that constrained men of the previous generation.

Within contemporary youth research there are two dominant streams - a 'transitions' and a 'cultures' perspective.

The findings of key reports highlight the need to raise awareness of the failures in health and social care systems to safeguard vulnerable older people.

This book challenges the widely held conjecture that gangs represent 'the new face of youth crime', repudiating claims which situate the gang at the heart of sexual violence, mass shooting and control of the illegal drugs trade and examining how better we might understand the violence of the street and the organisations that inhabit it.

This volume presents a ground-breaking collection of interdisciplinary chapters from international scholars which complicate, and offers new ways to make sense of, children's sexual cultures across complex political, social and cultural terrains.

Are young people today politically 'apathetic'?

This book contests the idea that lesbian and gay categories are disappearing, and that sexuality is becoming fluid, by showing how young people use them in a world in which heterosexuality is privileged.

Young people are regularly posited as a threat to social order and Deconstructing Youth explores why.

This book explores the literary and cultural history behind certain Christmas and Halloween traditions, and examines the way that they have moved into broadcasting.

This timely volume offers an in-depth theoretical analysis of children's experiences growing up with mobile internet technologies.

This book brings together thirteen timely essays from across the globe that consider a range of 'mediated youth cultures', covering topics such as the phenomenon of dance imitations on YouTube, the circulation of zines online, the resurgence of roller derby on the social web, drinking cultures, Israeli blogs, Korean pop music, and more.

How do Amazonian native young people perceive, question, and negotiate the new kinds of social and cultural situations in which they find themselves?

Many children learn from a young age to tell the truth.

The new go-to text for Early Childhood Studies, this comprehensive book provides an essential introduction to the field.

Drawing on extensive interviews with gang members, this book provides a vivid portrayal of gang life.

Young people in Eastern Europe are more advanced in some global trends than in the west.

This is the most comprehensive analytical study ever done of The Phantom of the Opera in its many different versions from the original Gaston Leroux novel to the present day.

There is a complex relationship between performance, youth, and the shifting material circumstances (social, cultural, economic, ideological, and political) under which theatre for children and youth is generated and perceived.

This book traces the history of youth culture from its origins among the student communities of inter-war Britain to the more familiar world of youth communities and pop culture.

With 70 per cent of its people under the age of 30, Africa is the world's youngest continent.

Sian Lincoln considers the use, role and significance of private spaces in the lives of young people.