Overview
- Highlights the situation in France as a barometer of global trends in Western societies
- Includes findings from 54 in-depth interviews with young people
- llustrates how youth address global challenges
Part of the book series: Studies in Childhood and Youth (SCY)
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Part I
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
Reviews
“Youth on Edge offers a close analysis of young people’s thoughts about social problems and forms of social cohesion in multicultural French society. By listening to varied voices, a landscape of political potentials ascends. The authors pose an important question: ‘What can still unite young French people and transcend what separates them?’ In spite of political despair, a possibility of change arises if young people's will to participate in rebuilding solidarity is taken seriously. The book brings hope to the table without turning a blind eye to unevenly distributed structural uncertainties and the simultaneous presence of different suggestions for how to repair fractures in the social fabric—from pressures to assimilate to cosmopolitanism.”
—Anna Lund, Professor of Sociology, Stockholm University, Sweden
"This is a great project that can even inspire a new course on the topic. The material studied is diverse and gives a nice sociological dimension to the question explored and in relation with youth and belonging in multicultural and global contexts. It proposes a nuanced account of youth and crisis in multicultural societies."
—Hervé Tchumkam, Altshuler Distinguished Teaching Professor and Professor of French and Postcolonial Studies, Southern Methodist University, USA
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Sylvie Octobre is Researcher at Département des Études, de la Prospective et des Statistiques, Ministère de la Culture, and Research Fellow at Centre Max Weber, France. She is co-editor-in-chief (with Vincenzo Cicchelli) of Youth and Globalization (Brill).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Youth on Edge
Book Subtitle: Facing Global Crises in Multicultural French Society
Authors: Vincenzo Cicchelli, Sylvie Octobre
Translated by: Sarah-Louise Raillard
Series Title: Studies in Childhood and Youth
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-11825-8
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-11824-1Published: 11 October 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-11827-2Published: 11 October 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-11825-8Published: 10 October 2022
Series ISSN: 2731-6467
Series E-ISSN: 2731-6475
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 253
Topics: Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging, Youth Culture, Sociology of Culture, European Politics, Comparative Politics