Visual and Cultural Identity Constructs of Global Youth and Young Adults Situated, Embodied and Performed Ways of Being, Engaging and Belonging Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies Series

This collection brings together the ideas of key global scholars focusing on the lives of youth and young adults, examining their visual and cultural identity constructs.

Embracing an international perspective encompassing the Global North and Global South, chapters explore expressions and performances of youth and young adults as shifting and entangled, in and through the clothed body, gender, sexuality, race, artistic and pedagogical making practices, in spaces and places, framed by new materialism, social media, popular and material culture. The overarching emphasis of the collection is on youth and young adults? strategies for engaging in and with the world, becoming a someone, and belonging, in settings that include a juvenile arbitration program, an artist community, high schools, universities, families and social media.

This truly interdisciplinary and international collection will have resonance not just within cultural and media studies, but also in education, anthropology, sociology, gender studies, child and youth studies, visual culture, and communication studies.

Introduction Part One: Contextualizing Embodiments in Space and Place 1. Becoming Somebody in Boys’ Schools: The Significance of Place 2. Worlding Youth: Visual and Narrative Vignettes Embodying Being, Becoming, and Belonging 3. About Facing the Other: The Impression Management of Young LGBTQ Adults in Contemporary Vietnam 4. Reconciling Divergent Realms in the Lives of Marginalized Students Part Two: Making and Engaging 5. Boys and Their Memes: Exploring Networked Homosocial Masculinity 6. Race, Gender, Sexuality in South African Teenage Girls’ Construction of ‘Porn Stars’ 7. A TikTok Assemblage: Girlhood, Radical Media Engagement, and Parent-Child Generativity 8. Storied Matter: Research on Young People’s Felt, Sensed and Storied Designs 9. "I Love My Body": Adjudicated Girls Confront Their Embodied Traumas and Idealized Female Representations Through Digital Media Making Part Three: Becoming and Belonging 10. Becoming Professional, Being Respectable: The Politics of College Dressing in South India 11. Living a Queer Life in Vietnam 12. Politics of Belonging Among Young Public Artists in Amman, Jordan 13. Trans-Languaging and Wonder: A Poetic Inquiry into Newcomer Belonging.

Fiona Blaikie is Professor of Art Education and former Dean of the Faculty of Education at Brock University. She has won numerous awards, for scholarship, most recently the 2020 USSEA International Ziegfeld Award for scholarship in visual arts education. From 2015 to 2019, she was Chief Examiner of Visual Arts for the International Baccalaureate Organization. Fiona’s scholarship in visual arts education began with a focus on contested aesthetic values that frame assessment in studio art, evolving into a focus on shifting visual and cultural identity constructs encompassing social theory on the body, clothing, affect, new materialism, weak theory, and posthumanism. Fiona is a steering committee member of the Arts Education Research Institute and a member of the Posthumanism Research Institute at Brock University.