Youth Cultures in a Globalized World

Chapter 1. Introduction.- Part 1: Youth and Globalisation.- Chapter 2. Tackling the North American Notion of Youth: Creating a Transformative and Critical Youth Pedagogy for Leadership.- Chapter 3. Social Transformation of Youth and Youth Cultures in Europe: Trends, Theories and the Relevance of Youth Cultural Scenes.- Chapter 4. Adolescence and Migration: On the Importance of Orders of Belonging.- Chapter 5. The Nature of Youth Or: On the Assumed Disappearance of Youth in the Present Society.- Part 2: Lifeworlds and Political Participation.- Chapter 6. Lifeworlds and Cultures of Australian Youth in a Globalized World.- Chapter 7. Globalizing Local Voices: Youth Cultures and Participation in Democratic Processes in Uganda.- Chapter 8. Youth in the Anthropocene: Questions of Intergenerational Justice and Learning in a More-than-human World.- Chapter 9. Youth Cultures, Right-Wing Extremism and Violence.- Part 3: Identity and Cultural Diversity.- Chapter 10. Research on Chinese Youth's Values in the New Era.- Chapter 11. Opening Up Localities to the Wider World and the Postmigrant Generation: New Forms of Resistance and Self-assertion.- Chapter 12. Body, Gender and Beauty: Modified Bodies Between Youth Culture Designs, Constructed Identity Models and Coping Strategies.- Chapter 13. Youth and Interculturality in Vienna: Gaming Intervention in Intercultural Contexts - Two Project Cases.

Ao. Univ. Prof. i.R. Mag. Dr. Gerald Knapp, Institute of Educational Science and Research (IFEB), Alpen-Adria University of Klagenfurt, he was the founder and head of department for Social Pedagogy and Former President of the Carinthian network against poverty and exclusion. His research focuses on international youth and youth culture, poverty and inequality research and critical social pedagogy studies.