Craig Jeffrey, Jane Dyson: Telling Young Lives

<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000" link="#0000FF" vlink="#CC0000" alink="#CC0000"><center><hr width="350" size="1" align="center" noshade>Examines the changing political and social strategies of contemporary young people around the globe<hr width="350" size="1" align="center" noshade><p><a href="http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/sc_add_query.cgi/7700/1927_reg.ctl" target="_top">Buy this book!</a> | <a href="http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/sc_modify_query.cgi" target="_top">View Cart</a> | <a href="http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/sc_checkout.cgi" target="_top">Check Out</a></p><p><img src="1518_reg.gif" height=200 border=1 vspace=4></p></center><h1>Telling Young Lives</h1> <H2>Portraits of Global Youth</H2> <h3>edited by Craig Jeffrey and Jane Dyson</h3> <P>cloth 1-59213-930-2 $69.50, Sep 08, <FONT COLOR=#990033>Available</FONT> <br>paper 1-59213-931-0 $23.95, Sep 08, <FONT COLOR=#990033>Available</FONT> <BR> 232 pp 6x9 1 map(s) 1 figure 14 halftones </P><BLOCKQUOTE><I>"</i>Telling Young Lives<i> provides us with thirteen in depth portraits of young people around the globe, as they navigate their way through homelessness, precarious labor, ethnic conflict, religious persecutions and simple everyday challenges of growing up. Told in rich, often lyrical detail, and through the voices of these young people themselves, each narrative is supplemented with suggested additional scholarly readings. </i>Telling Young Lives<i> provides the reader with a compelling introduction into the politics of everyday life as shaped and experienced by contemporary young people. A great read."</I> <BR>&#151<B>Sue Ruddick</B>, Associate Professor of Geography, University of Toronto<i></I></BLOCKQUOTE> <P><I>Telling Young Lives</I> presents more than a dozen fascinating, ethnographically informed portraits of young people facing rapid changes in society and politics from different parts of the world. From a young woman engaged in agricultural labor in the High Himalayas to a youth activist based in Tanzania, the distinctive voices from the U.K., India, Germany, Sierra Leone, South Africa and Bosnia Herzegovina, provide insights into the active and creative ways these youths are addressing social and political challenges such as war, hunger and homelessness.</P> <P><I>Telling Young Lives</I> has great appeal for classroom use in geography courses and makes a welcome contribution to the growing field of “young geographies,” as well as to politics and political geography. Its focus on individual portraits gives readers a fuller, more vivid picture of the ways in which global changes are reshaping the actual experiences and strategies of young people around the world.</P> <BR> <h2>Excerpt</h2><P>Excerpt available at <a href="http://www.temple.edu/tempress">www.temple.edu/tempress</a></p> <BR> <h2>Reviews</h2> <p><i>"A well-conceived and timely volume that will be useful for classroom teaching in political geography, social geography, and allied disciplines. It also breaks new ground in political geography and geographies of youth that will make it a standard reference for the growing number of scholars working on these issues."</i> <br>&#151<b>Carl Dahlman</b>, Associate Professor, Department of Geography, Miami University of Ohio <p><i>“Each chapter provides insight not only into the life being examined but also the youth’s political and social milieu…. The range of subjects and the accessibility of the writing make this a valuable complement to more theoretical texts and undeniably useful in the classroom.”</i> <br><b><i>Publishers Weekly</i></b> <BR> <h2>Contents</h2><P> <br>Foreword <br>Acknowledgements <br>1. Introduction <br>2. Saka: Growing Up in the Indian Himalayas <br>3. "All My Life, I've Bounced Around": A Portrait of Blacc <br>4. Vusi Majola: "Walking Until the Shoes Is Finsihed" <br>5. Young, White, Male, and Working Class: A Portrait of Richard <br>6. Young, Male, Scottish, and Muslim: A Portrait of Kabir <br>7. Politics, Lifestyle, and Identity: The Story of Sven, Eastern Germany <br>8. "Each and Every Single Story About Me…There's Like a Huge Twist to It": Growing Up at Risk in the United States &#8212A A Portrait of Mike <br>9. Zilho's Journeys: Displacement and Return in Bosnia-Herzegovina <br>10. Rocks: A Portrait of Mohammed <br>11. From Footballs to Fixer: Suresh and the New Politicians in North India <br>12. Telling Nala's Story: Negotiating the Global Agendas and Local Politics of Maasai Development in Tanzania <br>13. Darkest Whiteness: Race, Class, and Culture in Global Times: A Portrait of Helena <br>14. Young, Deaf, and Lesbian: A Portrait of Susannah <br>15. Afterword: Global Portraits and Local Snapshots <br>About the Contributors <br>Index </P><BR> <H2>About the Author(s)</H2> <table><tr><td valign="top"><img src="/tempress/authors/1927_au1.gif" height="90" width="75"></td><td width="100%" valign="middle"><p><B>Craig Jeffrey</B> is Associate Professor in Geography and International Studies, University of Washington. He is the co-author (with Patricia Jeffery and Roger Jeffery) of <I>Degrees Without Freedom? Education, Masculinities and Unemployment in North India</I>.</P></td></tr></table><table><tr><td valign="top"><img src="/tempress/authors/1927_au2.gif" height="90" width="75"></td><td width="100%" valign="middle"><p><B>Jane Dyson</B> is Affiliate Assistant Professor at the Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington.</P></td></tr></table> <BR><H2>Subject Categories</H2> <p><A HREF="/tempress/geography.html" TARGET="_top">Geography</a> <BR><A HREF="/tempress/anthropology.html" TARGET="_top">Anthropology</a> <BR><A HREF="/tempress/sociology.html" TARGET="_top">Sociology</a> </p> <p align="center"><a href="http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/sc_add_query.cgi/7700/1927_reg.ctl" target="_top">Buy this book!</a> | <a href="http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/sc_modify_query.cgi" target="_top">View Cart</a> | <a href="http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/sc_checkout.cgi" target="_top">Check Out</a></p><p><font face="Arial" size="1"><a href="copyright.html" onMouseOver="window.status='Web Copyright Policy';return true;" onMouseOut="window.status=''" title="Web Copyright Policy">©</a> 2008 <a href="http://www.temple.edu" target="new" onMouseOver="window.status='Link to Temple University home page';return true;" onMouseOut="window.status=''" title="Link to Temple University home page">Temple University</a>. 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