Figuring the future
Subtitle: globalization and the temporalities of children and youth
By: edited by Jennifer Cole and Deborah Durham.
Contributors: Cole, Jennifer, 1966-; Durham, Deborah Lynn, 1958-
Series: School for Advanced Research advanced seminar series
Publisher: School for Advanced Research Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Santa Fe, NM
Language: eng
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9781934691052
Subjects: Children -- Social conditions -- 21st century; Youth -- Social conditions -- 21st century; Globalization -- Social aspects
Description: "To address how and why youth and children have come to seem so important to globalization, the contributors to this volume look at both the spatial relations of globalization and the temporal dimensions, examining the reality behind truisms such as "youth are the future" or "children are our hope for the future." Discourses of, and practices by, youth and children bring the new temporal conjunctions of globalization into relationship with people's negotiations of the life course. Reaching from the design of children's toys to youth political mobilization, such discourses and practices are critical sites through which people everywhere conceive of, produce, contest, and naturalize the new futures."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.