Ninety percent of the world's youth live in Africa, Latin America
and the developing countries of Asia. Despite this, the field of
Youth Studies, like many others, is dominated by the knowledge
economy of the Global North. To address these geo-political
inequalities of knowledge, The Oxford Handbook of Global South
Youth Studies offers a contribution from Southern scholars to
remake Youth Studies from its current state, that universalises
Northern perspectives, into a truly Global Youth Studies.
Contributors from across various regions of the Global South,
including from the Diaspora, Indigenous and Aboriginal communities,
locate and define "the Global South", articulate the necessity of
studying Southern lives to enrich, re-interpret, legitimate and
offer symmetry to Youth Studies, and utilize and innovate Southern
theory to do so. Eleven concepts are re-imagined and re-presented
throughout the Handbook-personhood, intersectionality, violences,
de- and post-coloniality, consciousness, precarity, fluid
modernities, ontological insecurity, navigational capacities,
collective agency and emancipation. The outcome is a series of
everyday practices such as hustling, navigating, fixing, waiting,
being on standby, silence, and life-writing, that demonstrate how
youth living in adversity experiment with and push back against
routine and conformity, and how research may support them in these
endeavors and, simultaneously, redefine the relationships between
knowledge, practice and politics-what the volume editors term
"epistepraxis". The Handbook concludes with a nascent charter for a
Global Youth Studies of benefit to the world, that no longer
excludes, assumes or elides but rather includes new possibilities
for representing youth, researching amongst them, and devising
policies and interventions to better serve them. This volume is a
critical addition to the field of Youth Studies and one that should
be of interest to scholars, researchers, and students working in
this area in both the Global North and South.
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