Is "Youth" being addressed in important and distinctive ways in Middle East studies? (posed by Fida Adely)

International Journal of Middle East Studies

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 368-371

  Herrera, Linda ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF SOCIAL STUDIES   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY; ISLAMISM; MASS MEDIA; NEOLIBERALISM; REGIONAL POLITICS; SOCIAL MOVEMENT; YOUNG POPULATION;

ASIA; EURASIA; MIDDLE EAST;

EID: 70350658251     PISSN: 00207438     EISSN: 14716380     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0020743809091090     Document Type: Article

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2. United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UNDESA), World Youth Report 2005: Young People Today and in 2015 (New York: UNDESA, 2005).
3. The young do not simply make up an age cohort with future potential; they are active social agents in their own right. As proponents of the "new social studies of childhood" emphasize, children and youth should be understood simultaneously as "beings and becomings," not merely as works in progress. See Jens Qvortrup, Studies in Modern Childhood: Society, Agency, Culture (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005).
4. For comprehensive coverage of these issues, see Linda Herrera and Asef Bayat, eds., Being Young and Muslim: New Cultural Politics in the Global North and South (New York: Oxford University Press, forthcoming).
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20. There is evidence, for example, that the economic growth of the Asian "tiger" countries from 1960 to 1990 was possible in part because of education and economic policies that capitalized on the youth bulge and turned it into an advantage. World Bank, World Development Report 2007, 4-5.
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