Visual and Cultural Identity Constructs of Global Youth and Young Adults

<p>This collection brings together the ideas of key global scholars focusing on the lives of youth and young adults examining their visual and cultural identity constructs.</p><p>Embracing an international perspective encompassing the Global North and Global South chapters explore expressions and performances of youth and young adults as shifting and entangled in and through the clothed body gender sexuality race artistic and pedagogical making practices in spaces and places framed by new materialism social media popular and material culture. The overarching emphasis of the collection is on youth and young adults’ strategies for engaging in and with the world becoming a someone and belonging in settings that include a juvenile arbitration program an artist community high schools universities families and social media.</p><p>This truly interdisciplinary and international collection will have resonance not just within cultural and media studies but also in education anthropology sociology gender studies child and youth studies visual culture and communication studies.</p>