vincenzo cicchelli

This book explores disrupted youth cohesion in France within the context of
multiple ongoing global economic, migratory, social, political, and security-
related crises. While these trends can be observed in numerous Western societies, France provides a unique case study of various anticosmopolitan and anti-Enlightenment movements shaping youth conditions and reconfiguring relationships between the individual, the group, and society. The authors undertook in-depth interviews with French young people between the ages of 18 to 30 years old to inquire into how they experience “vivre ensemble” (living together) in a time of rising economic inequalities and multicultural tensions. Through these findings, they invite decision-makers, politicians, educators, and parents to propose a renewed narrative of social cohesion for youth who are not disillusioned, but deeply on edge.

“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

“The material studied in this book 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

Combining global, media, and cultural studies, this book analyzes the success of Hallyu, or the "Korean Wave” in the West, both at a macro and micro level, as an alternative pop culture globalization. This research investigates the capitalist ecosystem (formed by producers, institutions and the state), the soft power of Hallyu, and the reception among young people, using France as a case study, and placing it within the broader framework of the 'consumption of difference.'

Seen by French fans as a challenge to Western pop culture, Hallyu constitutes a material of choice for understanding the cosmopolitan apprenticeships linked to the consumption of cultural goods, and the use of these resources to build youth’s biographical trajectories.

The book will be relevant to researchers, as well as undergraduate and postgraduate students in sociology, cultural studies, global studies, consumption and youth studies.

This book gives fresh insights into how transnational flows of East Asian media culture have been organized by various social actors and industries, generated alternative media globalization, engendered cross-border dialogues, and fostered a cosmopolitan outlook. It is essential reading for anyone interested in the study of the “Korean Wave,” cultural globalization and mediated dialogue.”

—Koichi Iwabuchi, Professor of Media and Cultural Studies, Monash University, Australia.

“This is an exceptional work about the "Korean Wave" (Hallyu) and multi-polar globalization of culture. While providing the context surrounding the emergence, promotion, and global diffusion of Hallyu, the authors also address it theoretically, tackling such emerging concepts as aesthetic capitalism, sweet power, and the theory of cosmopolitan elective affinities. A must-read book for understanding the past, present, and future of Hallyu!”

—Wonho Jang, Professor of Urban Sociology, University of Seoul, South Korea


Vincenzo Cicchelli is Associate Professor at Université de Paris and Research Fellow at Centre Population et Développement (Université de Paris / IRD), France.

Sylvie Octobre is Researcher at Département des études, de la prospective et des statistiques, French Ministry of Culture, and Research Fellow at Centre Max Weber, France.

Keywords

Consumption Popular culture South Korean culture K-Pop Manwhas K-dramas K-film Cosmopolitanism

La longue suite de crises globales (économiques, migratoires, sociales, sécuritaires et politiques) que traverse la France depuis le début des années 2000 a profondément bouleversé le lien social et eu un impact sur la façon dont la jeunesse conçoit le vivre ensemble. Face au creusement des inégalités, à la perte de confi ance dans les institutions démocratiques, à la montée en puissance du communautarisme, à la crise du modèle républicain et au retour du nationalisme, cette génération est plus que jamais en quête d'un récit qui unirait les Français par-delà leurs divisions de genre, d'origines sociales et ethniques. Cet ouvrage alerte sur les crispations des jeunes et invite les adultes (décideurs, responsables politiques, éducateurs, parents) à leur proposer un récit du vivre ensemble renouvelé, avant que leurs inquiétudes ne s'expriment dans les urnes.

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While an overwhelming number of studies have been conducted in the field of global studies, our goal here is to understand the methodological dimensions of the consequences, for social and political scientists – sociologists, anthropologists, human geographers, linguists –, to address the Global and its consequences linked to epistemological considerations.
The empirical question is one of the most pressing and compelling ones since it addresses the very issue of ‘how’ globalization(s) work(s) and its impact on the craft of the Social scientists in terms of methodological and theoretical tools. Where and when is the global to be observed? What are the indicators of globalization and how to approach these processes? How to measure global flows? What are the relevant scales of observation? How is it possible to integrate various levels of analysis as the Global North/South relations or Eastern/Western divides and a discussion of glocal phenomena? What might constitute (a) global fieldwork(s)? What kind of data (macro and/or micro) should be mobilized? How to better situate social scientist’s positionality in the global economy of knowledge? These are the questions that our edited collection would like to address.

This edited collection aims to present and discuss multi-scalar, multi-level and multi-sited methods commonly used to study the Global or its impacts. It will focus either on comparative objects that have major economic and cultural impacts or on issues, knowledge and goods that are left at the margin of globalization. Like the large field of research that is Global studies, these approaches are by definition multidisciplinary and simultaneously involve researchers from different disciplinary backgrounds and geographical areas. The book intends to discuss various possible approaches among which cosmopolitan sociology, connected history, world history, in light with the challenges posed, on one hand, by globalization and, on the other, the need for situated standpoints and knowledges claimed by feminist, postcolonial, decolonial, or post-western approaches for the last 30 years (Stoetzler and Yuval-Davis, 2002; Santos 2007; Mignolo 2000).

This reference book provides the reader with an exhaustive array of epistemological, theoretical, and empirical explorations related to the field of cosmopolitanism studies. It considers the cosmopolitan perspective rather as a relevant approach to the understanding of some major issues related to globalization than as a subfield of global studies. In this unique contribution to conceptualizing, establishing, experiencing, and challenging cos-mopolitanism, each chapter seizes the paradoxical dialectic of opening up and closing up, of enlightenment and counter-enlightenment, of hope and despair at work in the global world, while the volume as a whole insists on the moral, intellectual, structural, and historical resources that still make cosmopolitanism a real possibility-and not just wishful thinking-even in these hard times.

Contributors include: John Agnew, Daniele Archibugi, Paul Bagguley, Esperança Bielsa, Estevão Bosco, Stéphane Chauvier, Daniel Chernilo, Vincenzo Cicchelli, Vittorio Cotesta, Stéphane Dufoix, David Held, Robert Holton, Yasmin Hussain, David Inglis, Lauren Langman, Pietro Maffettone, Sylvie Mesure, Magdalena Nowicka, Sylvie Octobre, Delphine Pagès-El Karaoui, Massimo Pendenza, Alain Policar, Frédéric Ramel, Laurence Roulleau-Berger, Hiro Saito, Camille Schmoll, Bryan S. Turner, Clive Walker, and Daniel J. Whelan.
“This landmark collection offers a critical way out of the current global crises of political and epidemiological lockdown.”
– Arjun Appadurai, New York University and The Hertie School, Berlin
“Timely and important, this book stands as a major contribution to cosmopolitanism studies. This is a must read-book.”
– Shujiro Yazawa, Hitotsubashi University and Seijo University, Tokyo
“This remarkable collection challenges us in understanding the world of strangers and sets out the case for a cosmopolitan approach to contemporary global politics.”
– Sari Hanafi, American University of Beirut, President of the International Sociological Association

Gathering scholars from five continents, this edited book displaces the elitist image of cosmopolitan as well as the blame addressed to aesthetic cosmopolitanism often considered as merely cosmetic. By considering aesthetic cosmopolitanism as a tool to understand how individuals and social groups appropriate the sphere of culture in a global world, the authors are concerned with its operationalization on two strongly interwoven levels, macro and micro, structural and individual. Based on the discussion of theoretical perspectives and empirically grounded research (qualitative and quantitative, conducted in many countries), this volume unveils new insights, on tourism and food, architecture and museums, TV series and movies, rock, K-pop and samba, by providing resources for making sense of aesthetic preferences in a global perspective.

Contributors are: Felicia Chan, Vincenzo Cicchelli, Talitha Alessandra Ferreira, Paula Iadevito, Sukhmani Khorana, Anne Krebs, Antoinette Kujilaars, Franck Mermier, Sylvie Octobre, Joana Pellerano, Rosario Radakovich, Motti Regev, Viviane Riegel, Clara Rodriguez, Leslie Sklair, Yi-Ping Eva Shi, Claire Thoumelin and Dario Verderame.

By examining cultural consumption, tastes and imaginaries as a means of relating to the world, this book describes the effects of globalization on young people from an aesthetic and cultural perspective. It employs the concept of aesthetico-cultural cosmopolitanism to analyse the emergence of an aesthetic openness to alterity as a new generational "good taste".

Aesthetico-Cultural Cosmopolitanism and French Youth critically examines the consumption of cultural products and imaginaries that provide genuine insight into social change, particularly in regards to young people, who play the largest role in cultural circulation. This book will be of interest to students and academics across a wide range of readers, including cultural theorists, and students engaged in debates on cultural consumption, the globalization of culture and transnational aesthetic codes.

“This excellent book brings together original ideas about globalization and cosmopolitanism in a rich empirical study of the consumption practices of French youth. Because it brings together the sociology of culture with the anthropology of globalization, it will be of great interest to all those who care about the future of transnational cultural practices.” (Arjun Appadurai, New York University, USA)

“The authors offer the reader an original and innovative analysis of contemporary global cultural tastes and passions. The fivefold configuration models proposed in this book will undoubtedly become a template to which forthcoming studies will have to confront themselves.” (Stéphane Dufoix, University Paris Nanterre, France)

“Based on an innovative survey revealing young adults’ cultural preferences, this book sheds unexpected light on contemporary forms of appropriation in a world now structured by the international circulation of symbolic goods.” (Jean-Louis Fabiani, Central European University, Hungary)

Come è cambiato il mondo! Come un mantra, questa affermazione ci è troppo spesso propinata da decisori e personale politico, diffusa dai media e ripetuta dalla gente comune. Questo libro ha voluto trasformarla in interrogativo e affidare la risposta a chi scrutando i profondi cambiamenti all’opera nelle società contemporanee ha trovato nel pensiero di Vittorio Cotesta una fucina di idee, spunti e riflessioni per aguzzare lo sguardo.
La grande diversità dei temi affrontati nei saggi scritti in onore di Vittorio Cotesta, nel solco di quelli da lui trattati nella sua lunga carriera, mostra a chi intende vivere la sociologia come vocazione che non vi sono scorciatoie per capire il complesso mondo in cui viviamo e che i migliori risultati si ottengono quanto più gli interessi coltivati spaziano da un’epoca all’altra, da una disciplina all’altra, da un autore all’altro. La raccolta di questi testi è dunque un omaggio, nel duplice significato della parola, insieme atto dovuto di ammirazione per chi tanto ha dato alla sociologia in Italia e all’estero, ma anche dono offerto a chi voglia conoscere meglio e da altre angolature l’uomo Cotesta, la sua storia e le sue battaglie, lo studioso, la sua opera, il suo impegno.

La mondialisation telle qu'elle apparaît, le plus souvent, se caractérise par l'internationalisation du capitalisme et l'imbrication de plus en plus étroite des systèmes économiques. Mais, on assiste aussi à l'avènement d'une société globale dans laquelle les circulations de biens, de personnes et de travailleurs ont une ampleur sans précédent. A tel point que se sont créées dans tous les continents des " villes-monde ", laboratoires d'une nouvelle forme de cosmopolitisme.
Ces évolutions soulèvent plusieurs questions d'importance : quelles sont les spécificités socio-économiques de ce monde globalisé ? L'homogénéisation culturelle va-t-elle de pair avec une telle évolution ? Irait-on vers un épuisement du cadre national ? Vers une internationalisation des règles de droit et une gouvernance mondiale ? Quels seront les traits de ces nouveaux individus cosmopolites qui se sentent attachés au monde entier et se vivent comme citoyens du monde ?
Ce dossier, en liant la problématique de la mondialisation/globalisation à celle de la " cosmopolitique ", traite de façon originale des questions qui concernent l'avenir de nos sociétés. L'avant-propos, clair et solide, introduit parfaitement des textes très denses qui offrent notamment de nombreuses traductions originales d'auteurs anglo-saxons reconnus.

Issu d’une enquête menée dans neuf pays du pourtour méditerranéen, cet ouvrage s’intéresse aux manières dont les adolescents découvrent l’existence et les problématiques de l’espace public. Il se compose tout d’abord d’un ensemble d’ethnographies déployées dans trois directions (s’exposer, s’affirmer, se projeter) capables de refléter les dynamiques d’apprentissage des adolescents au seuil des responsabilités de l’âge adulte. Ces enquêtes visent pour l’essentiel des espaces de sociabilité éloignés de la famille ou de l’école, elles concernent un ensemble de questions qui, du lien civil aux principes démocratiques, s’avèrent essentielles pour la compréhension de la citadinité et de la citoyenneté. La dernière partie de ce recueil de textes se place sur une plus large échelle. Elle permet de s’interroger sur la comparabilité même des données ethnographiques et laisse envisager des lignes de réflexion susceptibles de traverser l’hétérogénéité constitutive des cultures méditerranéennes, en œuvrant pour un dialogue entre les deux rives de cet espace géographique.

In this paper, we examine how young adults who are consumers of K-Pop in three culturally diverse cities (Paris, Philadelphia, and Manchester) reshape their symbolic boundaries to face social challenges. Analyzing data from 132 interviews, we show how young adults mainly confront social exclusion in Paris, fight racism in Philadelphia and deal with xenophobia in Manchester. Although K-Pop adds to the dynamics of exclusion due to being perceived as culturally foreign, our participants use K-Pop as a resource to reshape social boundaries towards new forms of inclusion. They do this by relying on K-Pop as a cultural product that promotes inclusion, and on their affiliation with the K-Pop community on a local and global level.

This article seeks to provide the reader with a theoretical model to understand the cultural dimensions of globalization linked to the circulation of global cultural goods. To do so, we shall first contextualize the main analytical tools developed since the early 1990s. In examining culture’s global turn, researchers have highlighted three main sources of friction at work in the transformation of cultural identities: the tensions between the drive towards homogeneity and heterogeneity; between American-Western cultural imperialism and ethno-national resistance; and between local promotion and hybridization. Drawing on this literature, we shall propose a four-vector model to analyze the globalization of cultural products: aesthetic capitalism, the battle for cultural hegemony, the role of ntermediaries, and work of reception done by amateurs. During this investigation, Arjun Appadurai’s sociological observation that “the global cultural economy” can only be understood by looking at “the fundamental disjuncture between economy, culture, and politics” will serve as our compass (1996, p. 33). The dynamic interplay between global cultural systems — governed by the complex relationships between the flows or “scapes” of people (“ethnoscapes”), technologies (“technoscapes”), capital (“financescapes”), information (“mediascapes”), and ideologies (“ideoscapes”) — is in fact what allows us to “see cultural material [move across] national boundaries”
(p. 46).

While in the first volume (entitled “The Craft of the Social Scientist in the Global Arena, to be published by BRILL Publishing in Fall 2023 and entirely open access), we explore how globalization is changing our tools of analysis on an epistemological, theoretical and methodological level, in this new project, we would like to gather proposals addressing more specifically the way in which various disciplines approach globalization, and from-scratch trough more ethnographic field-works, locally grounded.
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Cet article interroge la passion des jeunes Français pour la Hallyu, en s’inscrivant dans une analyse de la contribution de la “consommation de la différence” (Schroeder 2015) –c’est-à-dire la consommation de produits des industries culturelles à forte circulation internationale– à la formation de soi à travers la nouvelle figure de “l’amateur cosmopolite” (Cicchelli & Octobre 2017). Il contribue ainsi à l’étude de l’émergence de nouveaux modes d’apprentissages (acquisitions de compétences, incorporation de savoirs et développements d’imaginaires) par les
amateurs de la Hallyu, apprentissages qui échappent aux éducations formelles et relèvent le plus souvent, au moins dans un premier temps, d’une auto-éducation. Après avoir fourni au lecteur des éléments d’explication du succès global de l’Hallyu, l’article se penche –à l’aide de vingt entretiens approfondis auprès de jeunes franciliens âgés de 18 à 29 ans– sur les compétences cosmopolites mobilisées par les personnes interrogées dans –et acquises par– la consommation de ces
produits, a priori très éloignés de leur culture d’origine. Finalement, il questionne l’éventuelle transférabilité de ces compétences dans d’autres champs, scolaires ou professionnels, leur usage dans la construction d’une trajectoire biographique avant d’examiner le rôle des institutions scolaires en la matière.

This special issue focuses on education as a crucial factor mediating the relationship between youth and globalization. Specifically, four papers collectively explore how education can be re-envisioned from the following vantage point: the use of technology to foreground the fundamentally interconnected nature of today's world; the help of mindfulness to deepen the awareness of such interconnectedness and cultivate a commitment to collective well-being; the role of activism to produce more critical knowledge and transformational solidarity for social justice on a global scale; at the same time, the necessity of reflexivity to examine one's own ontological and epistemo-logical assumptions before attempting any educational intervention. I argue that this vantage point helps re-envision the existing institutions and practices of education to encourage young people in a globalizing world to learn to live a happy life together by embracing their pluriversal coexistence.

Nous considérons dans cet article les adolescents comme des narratologues ordinaires, c’est-à-dire à la fois comme des interprètes des narrations qui leurs sont proposées et des narrateurs eux-mêmes. Nous tentons de décrire les mécanismes de fictionnalisation par lesquels ces derniers retrouvent dans le réel et dans les médias-cultures des schèmes interprétatifs communs : la fiction est alors un étalon de mesure de la réalité. C’est sur la production de récits personnels d’attentats terroristes au moyen de ressources narratives issues de la fiction que prend appui la revendication de l’esprit critique et du doute hyperbolique chez les adolescents

Référence électronique Vincenzo Cicchelli et Sylvie Octobre, Cosmopolitisme esthético-culturel. Publictionnaire. Dictionnaire encyclopédique et critique des publics. Mis en ligne le 24 octobre 2018. Accès : http://publictionnaire.huma-num.fr/notice/cosmopolitisme-esthetico-culturel/. Le Publictionnaire. Dictionnaire encyclopédique et critique des publics est un dictionnaire collaboratif en ligne sous la responsabilité du Centre de recherche sur les médiations (Crem, Université de Lorraine) ayant pour ambition de clarifier la terminologie et le profit heuristique des concepts relatifs à la notion de public et aux méthodes d'analyse des publics pour en proposer une cartographie critique et encyclopédique.

Based on a French survey designed to understand how young people appropriate internationally disseminated cultural products, this article explores the social stratification of everyday aesthetico-cultural cosmopolitanism in France among them. Using two classification techniques (ascending hierarchical classification and k-means clustering) and a polytomic logistic regression, we demonstrate that this cosmopolitanism can be viewed along a continuum of configurations rather than in a number of pure types. We identify five configurations: inadvertent cosmopolitans, specific cosmopolitans, cosmopolitan fans, national fans and impossible cosmopolitans. These configurations are not uniformly distributed across society: socio-demographic factors do not have a single, unambiguous effect, but are in fact combined with individual resources (experiences, competences and aspirations).

Résumé

Au-delà des acceptions du droit civil et du droit pénal, la responsabilité se définit comme un lien intime entre Ego et son prochain. Les parents en sont des paradigmes éminents. Leur responsabilité évolue selon l'âge des enfants et les moments de l'éducation. La vigilance continue et la disponibilité totale qui caractérisent le rapport de la mère à son premier enfant accentuent l'asymétrie du rapport parental. On a ainsi pu parler de société sans père. Pour autant, la paternité ne se définit pas en creux : une autre modalité de la responsabilité parentale se dessine, fondée sur le soutien à la mère puis sur la conscience d'un rôle éducatif, plus projeté dans l'avenir. À l'adolescence, l'objectif des parents est de faire advenir la maturité, en se donnant comme médiateurs et accompagnateurs du processus. Les dispositifs monétaires sont l'un des aspects les plus révélateurs de cette nouvelle modalité de la responsabilité parentale. L'écartement progressif de la vie des enfants après le départ du foyer parental constitue encore une modalité de la responsabilité, par laquelle les parents transmettent à leurs enfants la charge de l'entretien des liens qui les unissent.

Abstract
Parental responsibility : Its meanings with respect to newborns and post-adolescents

Beyond civil and criminal law, responsibility is defined as an intimate bond between Ego and his descendants. Parenting provides the classic example here. Parents' responsibilities differ according to the age of their children and where they are in the child-rearing cycle. The constant attention and complete availability found in the relation between the mother and her first child dramatises the asymmetry of parenting. One might even describe this as a fatherless society. Nonetheless, paternity is present, as another kind of parental responsibility takes shape, based on support for the mother as well as the anticipation of future involvement in child-rearing. During adolescence, parents' goal is to foster maturity, proposing both mediation of and support during the process. Financial help is one of the most revealing aspects of this form of parental responsibility. With the growing distance between children and parents' lives after the former leave home, there is another kind of responsibility; parents transfer to children responsibility for maintaining family ties.

This issue of Youth and Globalization is devoted to the cultural production in the countries and political denominations of East Asia, and the regional and global journeys of such cultural production.
We are interested in the analysis and discussion of both general, old/new phenomena and specific case studies; with an either (inter/trans)national, intra-regional, or global reach and influence. We expect to receive papers dealing with discourses on multimedia conglomerates, publishing houses,
TV stations, film studios, game studios, single artists or works, located in East Asia or native of it.
We are, for the purpose of this special issue, certainly interested in prosumption/produsage phenomena and fandom studies, be them based either on renown franchises or on nascent grassroots trends. However, we also and mainly expect many proposals and a great deal of emphasis on the
mainstream phenomena of large proportions, with analyses of explanatory and (wherever applicable) predictive value on them, and an attention to the reception and understanding of those phenomena by the broader (national, regional, extra-regional) publics, stakeholders, and policy-makers.

This book is an introduction to the role played by Spanish formal education in providing feminist pedagogies to adolescents and young people, throughout the first two decades of the 21st century. The images of Spanish feminist protests in recent years, with a considerable presence of young girls but also boys, have spread around the world. But what is their relationship with gender-based inequalities? What is the role of formal education in their understanding of social reality? The authors combine a sociological and historical analysis of the social and educational changes that have taken place in Spanish youth during these decades, with a pedagogical orientation towards practice.

Drawing on both theoretical and empirical research, this double special issue intends to provide innovative insights into childhood and youth studies through the lenses of global risks, considering multilevel, multisite, and multidisciplinary approaches. Regarding the methodological approaches, scholars and advanced researchers are invited to make proposals that use qualitative and quantitative methods, combinations of both, or innovative and creative techniques that can shed light on how children and young people cope with different risks globalized today and/or in the future.
Youth and Globalization publish peer-reviewed articles (8,000- 9,000 words), book reviews (up to 1,200 words), and interviews/conversations (not to exceed 2,500 words). See Author Instructions:
https://brill.com/fileasset/downloads_products/Author_Instructions/YOGO.pdf

Youth studies in Latin America and Spain face numerous challenges. This book delves into youth experiences in the 21st century, shaped by complex and pressing issues: the surge of youth cultures and groups, visual images of youth throughout time, and fragmented youth experiences in radically unequal societies. It analyzes young people as precarious natives in global capitalism and labor uncertainty, juvenicide, feminist discourse, social networks, intimacy and sexual a fection among young people in a context of growing claims of gender equality. Also included are rural and indigenous youth as political actors, the actions of young political activists within government administrations, the experience of youth migration and empowerment, and young people dealing with the digital world. How have youth studies approached these issues in Latin America and Spain? Which were the main developments and transformations in this research eld over the past years? Where is it heading?

Contributors are: Jorge Benedicto, Maritza Urteaga, Dolores Rocca, José Antonio Pérez Islas, Juan Carlos Revilla, Mariano Urraco, Almudena Moreno, Óscar Aguilera, Marcela Saá, Rafael Merino, Ana Miranda, Carles Feixa, Gonzalo Saraví, Antonio Santos-Ortega, David Muñoz-Rodríguez, Arantxa Grau-Muñoz, José Manuel Valenzuela, Silvia Elizalde, Mónica Figueras, Mittzy Arciniega, Nele Hansen, Tanja Strecker, Elisa G. de Castro, Melina Vázquez, René Unda, Daniel Llanos, Sonia Páez de la Torre, Pere Soler, Daniel Calderón, and Stribor Kuric.

The situation of young people in Europe has been signi cantly impacted by recent changes that have taken place in the job market. Young people's life trajectories and transitions to adulthood are increasingly less linear, more segmented, and more reversible, with a rise in unemployment and the NEET (Not in Education, Employment or Training) phenomenon. This book aims to investigate the youth policies implemented in Europe and how they are integrated in the socioeconomic contexts of the various member states and their welfare regimes, educational systems, and skills markets.

In Totalitarianism in the Postmodern Age Piotr Mazurkiewicz et al. seek to answer the question whether a possible spread of pre-totalitarian attitudes among youth may in the near future pose a threat to the contemporary liberal democratic societies. The authors offer a new approach to the study of totalitarian trends in European societies significantly different from the previous one exploring mainly the historical and institutional-procedural aspects. The book not only offers interesting conclusions drawn from empirical research but also proposes an intellectually attractive theoretical model of understanding totalitarianism that can be used for further research.
The impulse for this reflection was the research work performed by the authors on a cohort of contemporary youths from seven countries of Central and Eastern Europe.

Youth policies in Europe represent an issue quite difficult to grasp: according to countries and to territories, their target, their content and their resources appear to vary dramatically, although they have been developed more or less in all European national and infra national contexts during the last decades. Yet, little knowledge has been gathered so far to describe and analyze the evolution of these policies. This special issue will explore the recent trends that influence youth policies in Europe: the way they are framed, implemented, and, possibly, assessed. The development of youth policies in Europe may be analyzed as the result of three concurrent processes, which take place at different levels of policymaking.

This collection sheds light on diverse forms of collective engagement among young people. Recent developments in youth studies, and the changing global shape of socioeconomic conditions for young people, demand new approaches and ideas. Contributors focus on novel processes, practices and routines within youth collectivity in various contexts across the globe, including Indonesia, Spain, Italy, Norway and Poland. The chapters pay particular attention to transitional phases in the lives of young people. Conceptually, the book also explores the strengths and limitations of a focus on collectivity in youth studies. Ultimately, the book makes the case for a focus on forms of collectivity and engagement to help scholars think through contemporary experiences of shared social life among young people.

Contributors are: Duncan Adam, Massimiliano Andretta, Roberta Bracciale, David Cairns, Diego Carbajo Padilla, Enzo Colombo, Valentina Cuzzocrea, Carles Feixa, Ben Gook, Izabela Grabowska, Natalia Juchniewicz, Ewa Krzaklewska, Wolfgang Lehmann, Michelle Mansfield, María Martinez, Ann Nilsen, Rebecca Raby, Paola Rebughini, Birgit Reißig, Bjørn Schiermer, Tabea Schlimbach, Melanie Simms, Benjamín Tejerina, Kristoffer C Vogt, and Natalia Waechter.

The main gaol of this book is to discuss the place and role of video games in contemporary societies and their impact on individual relationships. It analyses how the development of video games is a sign of and a factor in the democratization of modern societies. Judit Vari explores how video games contribute to the moral and political socialization of children and teenagers.

In China, strong economic growth over the past four decades, accelerated urbanisation and multiple inequalities between urban and rural worlds have driven the escalation of internal and international migrations. The internal migration of workers represents a unique phenomenon since the reform and opening of China. Less-quali ed young migrants are living in subaltern conditions and young migrant graduates have strongly internalised the idea of being the "heroes" of the new Chinese society in a context of emotional capitalism. But internal and international migrations intersect and intertwine, young internal and international migrants from China produce economic cosmopolitanisms in Chinese society and through top-down, bottom-up and intermediary globalisation. The young Chinese... See More Readership This text will be of interest for research institutes, (academic) libraries, specialists, scholars, graduate and postgraduate students.

This special issue focuses on education as a crucial factor mediating the relationship between youth and globalization. Specifically, four papers collectively explore how education can be re-envisioned from the following vantage point: the use of technology to foreground the fundamentally interconnected nature of today’s world; the help of mindfulness to deepen the awareness of such interconnectedness and cultivate a commitment to collective well-being; the role of activism to produce more critical knowledge and transformational solidarity for social justice on a global scale; at the same time, the necessity of reflexivity to examine one’s own ontological and epistemological assumptions before attempting any educational intervention. I argue that this vantage point helps re-envision the existing institutions and practices of education to encourage young people in a globalizing world to learn to live a happy life together by embracing their pluriversal coexistence.

Researcher, Département des études, de la prospective et des statistiques (Ministère de la culture, France), associate fellow at gemass Abstract Youth and Globalization is an academic forum for discussion and exchanges, a space for intellectual creativity on all questions relating to youth in a globalizing world. Its aim is to provide an innovative understanding of youth studies in a global context based on multiscalar, multilevel, multisite, and multidisciplinary approaches. Young people both are affected by and are the actors of the globalization of everyday life. Drawing on both theoretical and empirical research, the journal explores how young people relate to globality and its outcomes. To open this discussion, the Journal starts with an issue devoted to understanding the global generation through the lenses of the cosmopolitan approach. It discusses four major criticisms and provides a counter position to. In the first case, cosmopol-itanism is too often considered as a natural consequence of globalization, while in the second as being too ethnocentric. In the third case, cosmopolitanism has been assimilated to the ideology of contemporary global capitalism and in the fourth case it is mocked as a mere utopia. The papers gathered here investigate values, norms, behaviors and practices related to esthetic, cultural, ethic and political cosmopolitanisms.

Edited by Peter Kelly, RMIT University, Melbourne and Annelies Kamp, Dublin City University



In A Critical Youth Studies for the 21st Century Peter Kelly and Annelies Kamp present an edited collection that explores the challenges and opportunities faced by young people in an often dangerous 21st century. In an increasingly globalised world these challenges and opportunities include those associated with widening inequalities, precarious labour markets, the commodification of education, the hopes for democracy, and with practising an identity under these circumstances and in these spaces.

Drawing on contemporary critical social theories and diverse methodologies, contributors to the collection, who are established and emerging scholars from the Americas, Europe, and Asia/Pacific, open up discussions about what a critical youth studies can contribute to community, policy and academic debates about these challenges and opportunities.

Contributors are: Anna Anderson, Dena Aufseeser, Judith Bessant, Ros Black, Daniel Briggs, Laurie Browne, David Cairns, Perri Campbell, James Côté, Ann Dadich, Maria de Lourdes Beldi Alacantra, Nora Duckett, Deirdre Duffy, Angela Dwyer, Christina Ergler, Michelle Fine, Madeline Fox, Andy Furlong, Theo Gavrielides, Henry Giroux, John Goodwin, Keith Heggart, Luke Howie, Amelia Johns, Annelies Kamp, Peter Kelly, Fengshu Liu, Conor McGuckin, Majella McSharry, Filipa Menezes, Magda Nico, Pam Nilan, Henrietta O'Connor, Jo Pike, Herwig Reiter, Geraldine Scanlon, Keri Schwab, Michael Shevlin, Adnan Selimovic, Joan Smith, Jodie Taylor, Steven Threadgold, Vappu Tyyskä, Brendan Walsh, Lucas Walsh, Rob Watts, Bronwyn Wood, Dan Woodman, and David Zyngier.

In A Critical Youth Studies for the 21st Century Peter Kelly and Annelies Kamp present an edited collection that explores the challenges and opportunities faced by young people in an often dangerous 21st century. In an increasingly globalised world these challenges and opportunities include those associated with widening inequalities, precarious labour markets, the commodification of education, the hopes for democracy, and with practising an identity under these circumstances and in these spaces.

Drawing on contemporary critical social theories and diverse methodologies, contributors to the collection, who are established and emerging scholars from the Americas, Europe, and Asia/Pacific, open up discussions about what a critical youth studies can contribute to community, policy and academic debates about these challenges and opportunities.

Contributors are: Anna Anderson, Dena Aufseeser, Judith Bessant, Ros Black, Daniel Briggs, Laurie Browne, David Cairns, Perri Campbell, James Côté, Ann Dadich, Maria de Lourdes Beldi Alacantra, Nora Duckett, Deirdre Duffy, Angela Dwyer, Christina Ergler, Michelle Fine, Madeline Fox, Andy Furlong, Theo Gavrielides, Henry Giroux, John Goodwin, Keith Heggart, Luke Howie, Amelia Johns, Annelies Kamp, Peter Kelly, Fengshu Liu, Conor McGuckin, Majella McSharry, Filipa Menezes, Magda Nico, Pam Nilan, Henrietta O'Connor, Jo Pike, Herwig Reiter, Geraldine Scanlon, Keri Schwab, Michael Shevlin, Adnan Selimovic, Joan Smith, Jodie Taylor, Steven Threadgold, Vappu Tyyskä, Brendan Walsh, Lucas Walsh, Rob Watts, Bronwyn Wood, Dan Woodman, and David Zyngier.

Series Editor: Vincenzo Cicchelli, Gemass, University Paris Sorbonne/CNRS and University Paris Descartes

Specialists of adolescence and youth tend to consider these life stages as valuable barometers of social change. Indeed, new trends in society can be observed through the prism of young people who today find themselves under the spotlight as never before. At the same time, all over the planet, tremendous changes in everyday life can be witnessed currently. The main reason for launching a new book series focused on adolescence and youth from an international perspective is due to the lack of knowledge and understanding of the emergence of transnational shared practices, values, norms, behaviors, cultures and patterns among young people all over the globe.

The aim of this brand new book series is to be a forum for discussion and exchanges, a space for intellectual creativity on all questions relating to youth in a globalizing world. It will also provide a valuable and much needed crucible for comparative studies on youth from an international perspective. Its spirit is to be open to new suggestions coming from research in the social sciences. From an epistemological stance, what kind of concepts do sociologists of youth need in order to understand changes? Are classical sociological concepts on youth still useful and relevant? What kind of perspectives could be more suitable?

As this book series is situated within a mainstream research framework, we welcome original leading works written in a manner that is accessible to a wider audience.

Authors are cordially invited to submit proposals and/or full manuscripts to either the series editor, Vincenzo Cicchelli, or the Acquisitions Editor at BRILL, Marti Huetink.

The aim of Protest and Generations is to problematize the relations between generations and protests in the Middle East, North Africa and the Mediterranean. Most of the work on recent protests insists on the newness of their manifestation but leave unexplored the various links that exist between them and what preceded them. Mark Muhannad Ayyash and Rabita Hadj-Moussa (Eds.) argue that their articulation relies at once on historical ties and their rejection. It is precisely this tension that the chapters of the book address in specifically documenting several case studies that highlight the generating processes by which generations and protests are connected. What the production and use of generation brings to scholarly understanding of the protests and the ability to articulate them is one of the major questions this collection addresses.

Crossings to Adulthood: How Diverse Young Americans Understand and navigate their Lives assembles chapters written by members and affiliates of the Research Network on Transitions to Adulthood on pressing issues facing young, coming-of-age Americans in an increasingly diverse, globalizing world. Based on over 400 interviews with young adults from different racial, class and regional backgrounds, the chapters provide an in-depth look at how young Americans understand their lives and the challenges, risks, and opportunities they experience as they move into adulthood during changing and uncertain times. Chapters focus on how these young adults understand markers of adulthood such as leaving home, launching careers, and forming relationships, as well as issues particularly salient to them including politics, diversity, identity, and acculturation.

An array of tremendous transnational changes have occurred in the
last 40 years that have deeply affected youth’s lives all around the world
with respect to their family life, coupling and sexuality, education and
employment, cultural consumption and imaginaries, mobilities and
migrations, civic and political engagements, and beliefs and values
during their coming of age, from late childhood to the transition to
adulthood. Thus, the global world is the framework within which all of
the contemporary social, economic, cultural and political phenomena
related to youth must be examined.
As the growth of scholarship in the field of global youth studies
continues to accelerate at an exponential rate, Brill’s family of
publications Global Youth Studies aims to provide an integrated,
exhaustive and unique brand on all questions related to this topic

Combining global, media, and cultural studies, this book analyzes the success of Hallyu, or the "Korean Wave” in the West, both at a macro and micro level, as an alternative pop culture globalization. This research investigates the capitalist ecosystem (formed by producers, institutions and the state), the soft power of Hallyu, and the reception among young people, using France as a case study, and placing it within the broader framework of the 'consumption of difference.'

Seen by French fans as a challenge to Western pop culture, Hallyu constitutes a material of choice for understanding the cosmopolitan apprenticeships linked to the consumption of cultural goods, and the use of these resources to build youth’s biographical trajectories.

The book will be relevant to researchers, as well as undergraduate and postgraduate students in sociology, cultural studies, global studies, consumption and youth studies.

Vincenzo Cicchelli et Sylvie Octobre sociologue au département des études, de la prospective et des statistiques du ministère de la Culture présenteront leur ouvrage Aesthetic Cosmopolitanism and Global Culture.
La présentation sera suivie d’un débat avec Stéphane Dorin, professeur à l’Université de Limoges.

Résumé

Gathering scholars from five continents, this edited book displaces the elitist image of cosmopolitan as well as the blame addressed to aesthetic cosmopolitanism often considered as merely cosmetic. By considering aesthetic cosmopolitanism as a tool to understand how individuals and social groups appropriate the sphere of culture in a global world, the authors are concerned with its operationalization on two strongly interwoven levels, macro and micro, structural and individual. Based on the discussion of theoretical perspectives and empirically grounded research (qualitative and quantitative, conducted in many countries), this volume unveils new insights, on tourism and food, architecture and museums, TV series and movies, rock, K-pop and samba, by providing resources for making sense of aesthetic preferences in a global perspective.

Vincenzo Cicchelli est enseignant-chercheur au Ceped. Il travaille sur les jeunes dans le monde global à partir d’une perspective cosmopolite. Il est co-directeur avec Sylvie Octobre de la « Global Youth Studies » chez Brill (Leiden/Boston) http://www2.brill.com/gys
Sylvie Octobre est sociologue au département des études, de la prospective et des statistiques du ministère de la culture et chercheure associée au Gemass. Ses travaux portent sur les rapports des enfants et des jeunes à la culture avec un intérêt particulier pour les inégalités, les différences de genre et les effets de la globalisation de la culture.

Stéphane Dorin est professeur à l’Université de Limoges. Il est spécialiste de sociologie culturelle et de la globalisation.

Based on the perspective of aesthetico-cultural cosmopolitanism, this paper aims to establish connections between cultural sociology and global studies at the micro level. Starting from the premise that the cultural repertoires of young French people have become internationalized, this article proposes the concept of a ‘regime of global tastes’, an interpretive framework that combines likes and dislikes and whose main trait is the capacity of individuals to localize and evaluate, both aesthetically and culturally, products coming from outside their own ethno-national background. We describe three global tastes: mainstream taste, cosmopolitan taste, and the taste for local authenticity. The results allow us to: a) criticize the allegedly poverty of reception in the context of cultural globalization; b) argue for the ability of the consumption of difference to foster political and ethical concerns; and c) discuss the reconfiguration of symbolic boundaries between social classes as well as generational belonging.

Embodied knowledge, so it seems, is one less explored aspects of cultural globalization. This talk will present elements from a work-in-progress on the impact of cultural globalization on the performance of embodied knowledge in everyday life. The paper takes lead from my work on the globalization of pop-rock music; especially how its materiality as sound affected embodied musical knowledge worldwide. It then looks at additional realms, notably food and clothing, where global proliferation of material objects, gadgets and devices has induced acquisition and performance of embodied knowledge in routine everyday life. Framing the discussion, theoretically, is the notion of cultural cosmopolitanism.

Face à l’inquiétante progression des idéologies identitaristes, l’affirmation cosmopolite se propose de repenser le rapport du sujet à ses appartenances. Mais est-il envisageable de concilier le principe d’universalité des droits humains, lequel, par définition, s’applique quelle que soit la nationalité des individus, et l’exclusivité des devoirs politiques liant les concitoyens entre eux ?

The research group Youth Cosmopolitanisms in Brazil was established and certified at CNPq in May 2015 by ESPM´s pro-rector, based on the partnership created between the group of researchers from ESPM, Viviane Riegel, Renato Mader, Wilson Bekesas and Joan Pellerano, the GEMASS (Group of Study and Methods in Social Sciences of the University of Paris Sorbonne), through the researcher Vincenzo Cicchelli, the Ministry of Culture and Communication of France, through the researcher Sylvie Octobre, the University of Haifa, through the researcher Tally Katz-Gerro, and the Center for Research and Formation of the Sesc São Paulo.

Ce séminaire pluridisciplinaire qui réunit géographes, historiens, historiens des arts, littéraires et sociologues, se propose d’explorer les imaginaires des villes cosmopolites en Méditerranée et au Moyen-Orient, produits par la littérature et le cinéma. Les multiples usages du mot cosmopolitisme dessinent un champ sémantique flou et ambigu et véhiculent des connotations tantôt positives, tantôt négatives. La région Méditerranée-Moyen Orient se prête particulièrement à une réflexion empirique et théorique sur la notion de ville cosmopolite ; ses nombreuses cités cosmopolites inspirent une riche production littéraire et cinématographique. Si Alexandrie renvoie à l’archétype de la ville cosmopolite coloniale, d’autres villes portuaires comme Tanger, Salonique ou Beyrouth sont aussi fortement imprégnées de cet imaginaire de la ville cosmopolite. Dans la seconde moitié du XXe siècle, tandis que le caractère cosmopolite de certaines villes disparaît suite à la décolonisation et l’affirmation nationale, cet imaginaire est associé à d’autres métropoles comme Marseille ou Tel Aviv. Enfin, Dubaï ne figure-t-elle pas l’archétype de la ville cosmopolite post-coloniale du XXIe siècle, modèle d’un genre nouveau, réinventé par la mondialisation ?

This one-day international workshop, part of the MAGMET seminar funded
by Sociétés Plurielles (Université Sorbonne Paris Cité), is convened by
Catherine Lejeune (Paris Diderot), Delphine Pagès-El Karoui (INALCO),
Camille Schmoll (Paris Diderot/IUF), Hélène Thiollet (CNRS/Sciences Po).

This worshop seeks to investigate cosmopolitanism through an urban lens.
Cosmopolitanism as a notion arose from philosophical and sociological
traditions, where it involves both normative concerns and pragmatic
accounts of social interactions. Its political dimension enshrining rights
and duties for cosmopolitan subjects is also crucial. This workshop aims
to provide a situated approach to cosmopolitanism, using the analytical
framework of urban and social theory alongside social geography and
building upon empirical research. Our purpose is to frame a grounded
theory of urban cosmopolitanism that would take the paradigms and
empirical findings of various social sciences into account. Our interest lies
in a cosmopolitanism of encounters incarnated in contacts, mobilities and
cultural consumption and the spatial dimension of the social and power
relations that are at stake in cosmopolitan encounters. We shall focus on
cities as sites, but also actors in processes of cosmopolitanisation.

International Symposium
29th and 30th September 2016
Salerno, Campus of Fisciano, Italy
The International Symposium discusses cosmopolitanism and its limits in a period characterized by  strong currents of neo-liberalism, increasing inequalities, the sharp decline of the European political project, the upsurge of new challenges to democracy and peace (including terrorism and war), the return of nationalism and the rejection of the Other, involving xenophobia, anti-semitism and islamophobia, ethnic divides, and so on. To put it in a nutshell, it aims at finding answers to these questions which are not debated enough: Is cosmopolitanism still a sustainable perspective on the globalised world of today? To what extent is it still relevant for understanding the dramatic challenges societies are facing? And if so, how far can we go in defending it? What kind of adaptation do we need in order to improve or amend it? These are only some examples of topics that the International Symposium will debate in order to publish an edited book on the theme of Cosmopolitanism in Hard Times.

The question addressed in this conference is both general and specific. It is general because it inevitably covers a number of commonalities that are shared by authors who are actively engaged in promoting cosmopolitanism. It is specific because we are concerned with the operationalization of the cosmopolitan perspective that has become widely popular in social sciences and has known an upsurge of interest over the last two decades. Cosmopolitanism is not only a philosophy of perpetual peace, a moral stand, a societal aspiration. Scholars agree that it may also be expressed by a diverse array of practices spread around the world. 
Drawing on both theoretical and empirical research, the aim of our meeting is to show there is some credence to the view that the cosmopolitan sociology is a heuristic way to understand how human communities, individuals, and institutions relate to globality and its outcomes. With an unprecedented rapidity, global media exposes us to an uninterrupted flow of cultural contents of diverse origins (Castells, 2001; Urry, 2006), which create and maintain what John Tomlinson (2007) calls “a condition of immediacy” at the very heart of daily life. Whilst one might argue that the human story is one of migration, the overwhelming interconnectedness of the world today has resulted in increased flows of people on a hitherto unforeseen scale (Appadurai, 1996)
As a result of these transnational processes, in their daily lives individuals frequently encounter alterity (Cicchelli, 2012). Far from being exceptional, difference is now regarded as a central feature of our increasingly diverse ‘multicultural’ and ‘plural’ societies. Thanks to the participation of leading scholars engaged in rethinking what cosmopolitanism is or should be, the purpose of this conference is to explore in a comprehensive way the usefulness of a cosmopolitan outlook. The idea is to take advantage of the global interconnectedness, and to go beyond global studies, by approaching it in a specific way. As "the ‘global other’ is in our midst” (Beck and Grande, 2010: 417), it is consequently crucial a cosmopolitan approach be based on how otherness and plurality are handled by individuals, human groups and institutions. Exploring the role played by the multifarious contacts with otherness that occur in the global society is an issue frequently ignored in empirical research on cosmopolitanism, even though it should be at its very heart.

This international conference aims to shed light on the phenomenon of the diffusion of Asian culture in the European context, in particular on four axes of interrogation: the production of cultural goods; the political competition in the global arena for cultural hegemony; glocalization, i.e., the adaptation of production to local contexts; and reception by consumers.

https://euroasie.sciencesconf.org/

Paris 14-16 December 2022