SY2019 - Youth, Identity and Popular Culture

[Offered in odd-numbered years]

Topics include youth as a concept; a question of power youth as problems and victims; youth and multiple transitions; consuming passions: the mass globalisation of youth culture; youth subcultural formations; the invisible female? girls and subcultures; style as an identity marker in subcultures; re-making the body and fashion; fear and loathing: resistance, dance and the body; its only rocknroll: music as a vehicle of empowerment; no future: youth and marginalisation; who are you? youth as multi-layered subjects.

Learning Outcomes

• develop an understanding of the multiple discourses which shape young peoples identities;
• gain an appreciation of the theoretical underpinnings of youth subcultural studies;
• gain an appreciation of the youth as consisting of multiple subjectivities;
• gain an understanding of the concept of youth as a social construct.

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