Dear list members,
Jane Dyson and I are co-editing a new book series with Temple University Press on global youth - details below. Please let me know if you are interested in submitting a manuscript.
Best wishes,
Craig
Dr. Craig Jeffrey
University Lecturer in Human Geography, Oxford University
Fellow of St. John's College, Oxford
School of Geography and the Environment, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3QY, UK Tel. 01865 280070
Global Youth Book Series, Temple University Press
The book series will comprise a set of research-based monographs on young people in the context of global social, political and economic change. The series will bring together work that examines youth and aspects of global change within sociology, anthropology, development studies, geography, and educational studies. Childhood and youth are social constructions; the series will include books on children, teenagers, and young adults who are labeled, or label themselves “youth”. We are especially keen to encourage work on youth in areas of the world that are often excluded from mainstream discussions of young people, such as Latin America, Africa, Asia and Eastern Europe, but we also welcome studies from Western Europe and North America as well as books that bridge the global north and global south.
Aims
There is a pressing need for high quality social scientific research on youth and their changing experiences outside Euro-America. The books will engage with economic, social, cultural, and political dimensions of young people’s lives and will offer insights and policy relevant evidence. The books will inform not only students and researchers but also policy-makers and practitioners in international organizations, national governments, and local communities.
The aims are to:
(a) Offer first-rate quantitative and qualitative research-based monographs which contribute original and significant insights into the relations between youth and globalization.
(b) Contribute important new texts on appropriate theoretical and methodological frameworks for the study of contemporary youth and global transformation.
(c) Provide novel, imaginative understandings of youth and society based upon interdisciplinary and cross-national studies. Contributions to the series will link mainstream work on youth to broader themes in sociology, anthropology, human geography, development studies, and educational studies, offering fresh perspectives on young people’s issues for a global community of youth researchers and practitioners.
Marketing and Audience
The series editors are committed to building a strong international publicity program for the books, which will be competitively priced. The series will run for several years with the expectation that we shall publish at least 12 books.
Book proposals
We are currently seeking proposals for titles in the series. The titles are likely to include a diverse range of books – single and co-authored texts, with some edited collections. Although some of these texts will become required reading for courses, the aim is not to publish textbooks as such but to disseminate effectively new and important research, especially in the global south.
We welcome proposals on a broad range of topics that would fit under the heading of global youth. We are especially concerned to offer new insights into the relationships between youth and social change in different contexts. We are interested in high quality studies which address topics in youth studies, educational studies and policy, globalization studies, and political science, but would also like to encourage exemplary sociological, anthropological and geographical scholarship on how young people navigate different regional and global processes of transformation.
We envisage sharp, critical, highly informed studies that move forward academic and policy makers’ thinking as well as public understanding of youth. The books may take the form of novel syntheses of existing research or accounts of innovative substantive research. We will consider outstanding single country studies where they have a general appeal for those teaching and researching in the field, by offering innovative theoretical and/or methodological approaches.
We are interested in including research on the following types of themes:
• youth inequalities, access and social mobility: differences and exclusions based upon class, race, gender, caste, age, sexuality, ability, and geography as well as intersections between inequalities
• global youth cultures: femininities and masculinities, female empowerment, family and community traditions, youth performances, youth and new media, sexuality, the body
• politics of youth transformation: political movements, inter- and trans-generational politics, cultural politics, the effects of conflict and war on young people and education
• poverty, education and the transformation of childhood: children’s work, street children, child trafficking, children’s rights, child soldiers, schooling, non-school education (e.g. apprenticeships)
• health, HIV/AIDS and well-being: youth issues in relation to mental and physical disability and illness
• youth, rights and the law: human rights, youth legal rights and responsibilities, discourses of youth, international law and young people
• impact of global and national reforms on young people: new models of education, neoliberal reforms and their effects, impact of global economic downturn on young people.
• youth, space and the environment: migration, youth and place, young people’s engagement with new technologies, youth environmental movements and practices, urban and rural youth, young people’s attempts to address climate change
Series Editors
Craig Jeffrey, currently a University Lecturer at Oxford University and Fellow of St. John’s College, received his PhD from the University of Cambridge in 1999. He works on youth and education in India. He has published many articles on his work and three books: Degrees Without Freedom? Education, Masculinities and Unemployment in North India (Stanford, 2008, with Patricia Jeffery and Roger Jeffery), Telling Young Lives: Portraits in Global Youth (Temple, 2008, with Jane Dyson), and Timepass: Youth, Class and the Politics of Waiting (Stanford, 2010). He is currently working on another book, with Stuart Corbridge and John Harriss, on modern India.
Jane Dyson, currently an Affiliate Scholar at the University of Oxford, obtained her PhD from the University of Cambridge in 2006. She has written several articles and book chapters and co-edited Telling Young Lives with Craig Jeffrey. She is currently writing a monograph on her research.
Editorial advisors on the series
Professor Stuart Aitken, Geography, University of San Diego State
Dr. Jo Boyden, Development Studies, University of Oxford
Professor Jennifer Cole, Anthropology, University of Chicago
Professor Harriet Bradley, Sociology, University of Bristol
Professor Deborah Durham, Anthropology, Sweet Briars College
Professor Roger Jeffery, Sociology, University of Edinburgh
Professor Chris Philo, Geography, University of Glasgow
Professor Ann Phoenix, Institute of Education, London
Professor Pamela Reynolds, Anthropology, Johns Hopkins University
Professor Abdoumaliq Simone, Sociology, Goldsmiths College, University of London
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