Keywords in Youth Studies ─ Tracing Affects, Movements, Knowledges

With recent attention to issues such as youth social exclusion, poverty, school underachievement, school violence, gang activity, sexuality, and youth’s interactions with media and the internet, youth studies has emerged as a significant interdisciplinary field. It has moved beyond its roots in subcultural studies to encompass a diverse array of disciplines, subfields, and theoretical orientations. Yet no volume exists that systematically presents and puts into dialogue the field’s areas of focus and approaches to research.

As a unique blend of reference guide, conceptual dictionary, and critical assessment, Keywords in Youth Studies presents and historicizes the "state of the field." It offers theoretically-informed analysis of key concepts, and points to possibilities for youth studies’ reconstruction. Contributors include internationally-renowned field experts who trace the origins, movements, and uses and meanings of "keywords" such as resistance, youth violence, surveillance, and more. The blending of section essays with focused keywords offers beginning and advanced readers multiple points of entry into the text and connections across concepts. A must-read for graduate students, faculty, and researchers across a range of disciplines, this extraordinary new book promotes new interdisciplinary approaches to youth research and advocacy.

Nancy Lesko is Professor of Education and Maxine Greene Chair at Teachers College, Columbia University.

Susan Talburt is Director and Associate Professor of Women’s Studies at Georgia State University.

An Introduction to Seven Technologies of Youth Studies, Susan Talburt and Nancy Lesko
Section I: A History of the Present of Youth Studies, Susan Talburt and Nancy Lesko



Biology/Nature, Elizabeth Seaton



(Dis)ability, Beth A. Ferri



Juvenile Justice, Erica Meiners



Leisure, Carles Feixa



Middle School, Julie McLeod



School-to-Work Transition, Meg Maguire and Stephen J. Ball



Surveillance, Rachel Oppenheim


Section II: Research and Regulation of Knowledge, Thomas S. Popkewitz


Commodification, Lisa Weems



Culture, Mikko Salasuo and Tommi Hoikkala



Ethnographies, Wanda S. Pillow



Histories, Andrew J. Reisinger



Peer Groups, Johanna Wyn



Transnational Governance Organizations, Noah W. Sobe


Section III: Populational Reasoning, Gordon Tait


Age, Yen Yen Woo



Disorderly, Valerie Harwood



Generation, Cindy Patton



Resistance, Elizabeth Soep



Subculture, Martha Marín Caicedo



Trans, Alejondro Venegas-Steele


Section IV: Citizenship Stories, Anita Harris


Democracy, Benjamin Baez



Hijab, Amira Jarmakani



Human Rights, Julie Kubala



Mall, Carolyn Vander Schee



Nation, Rupa Huq



Postcolonial, Aaron Koh and Allan Luke



Sex Education, Mary Louise Rasmussen


Section V: Mobilities and the Transnationalization of Youth Cultures, Fazal Rizvi


Health, Emma Rich



Immigrant, Claudia Matus



Internet, Lori B. MacIntosh, Stuart Poyntz, and Mary K. Bryson



Musicking, Julian Henriques



Sexuality, Mary Jane Kehily



TV and Film, Bill Osgerby


Section VI: Everyday Exceptions: Geographies of Social Imaginaries, Sunaina Maira


Cultural Production, John Broughton



Hybridity, Pam Nilan



Safe Spaces, M. Piper Dumont



Street Children, Rob Pattman



Style, Kristen Luschen



Youth Violence, Todd R. Ramlow


Section VII: Enchantment, Nancy Lesko and Susan Talburt


The Erotic, Jen Gilbert



Innocence, Elizabeth Marshall



NGOs, Dana Burde



Nostalgia, Kaoru Miyazawa



Teacher Movies, Rebecca Stanko



Youth Activism, Noel S. Anderson



Youth Participatory Action Research, Michelle Fine