Resources on: Youth Culture and Religion
Documents and articles
Youth and the Global South: Religion, Politics and the Making of Youth in Africa, Asia and the Middle East
Dakar, Senegal, 13 - 15 October 2006, Convened by: African Studies Centre (ASC), Council for the Development of Social Science in Africa (CODESRIA), Institute for the Study of Islam in the Modern world (ISIM), International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS)
The dramatic demographic shift towards the young in many countries of the global South, particularly in Africa, the Middle East and Southeast Asia, has led to important changes, which analysts are just beginning to understand. The ‘young generation’ has been assuming a central, though frequently ambiguous, position in many places in the global South. While political economies change and the processes of globalization continues relentlessly, young people have become both agent and subject in new, yet little understood ways in the interrelated spheres of religion, politics and culture.
Global Youth Culture
“Global youth culture” is the transdisciplinary category by which theorists and policy analysts attempt to understand the emergence of the complex forms of hybrid culture and identity that increasingly occur amongst youth throughout the world due to the proliferation of media like film, television, popular music, the Internet and other information and communication technologies (ICTs) in their everyday lives. “
Understanding Globalisation and the Reaction of African Youth Groups
Dominant representations of the contemporary global economy abound with endings and beginnings of a particular epoch. What we are witnessing is not just the end of the Cold War, or the passing of a particular period of postwar history, but the end of history as such; that is, the end point of mankind’s ideological evolution and the universalisation of Western liberal democracy as the final form of human government (Fukuyama, 1989).
Youth and Culture
The power of youth & culture is a subject that we can no longer ignore. Young people today are connected to each other in more ways than we can imagine and certainly more than it was a few years back. Young people are no longer dependent on traditions or their parents for knowledge and opinions; they are bombarded with lots of information both useful and non-useful from all over the globe, and as result they have developed their own culture or subculture known as Youth Culture.
Youth Culture and Youth Identity
The globalisation of culture – the effect upon culture of the “increasing connection of the world and its people” – is perhaps nowhere more visible than in the changing nature of the relationship between the world’s youth and their sense of identity (Solomon & Scuderi 2002:13). It has become commonplace to think of the world’s youth as that part of the community who are most receptive, or, alternatively, susceptible to, foreign cultural practices. If childhood means acceptance, and adulthood means conservatism, youth means rebelliousness.
Youth Culture, bandiri, and the Continuing Legitimacy Debate in Sokoto Town
Journal of African Cultural Studies, Vol. 12, No. 1 (Jun., 1999), pp. 27-46.
In spite of the Islamic world's adherence to the tenets of the Qur'an a localised religious culture operates to affirm, contest, or renegotiate the legitimacy of mainstream cultural order. In this paper, we describe the practice of bandiri, a musical performance genre and the attempt of its practitioners to situate bandiri at the centre of youth culture in Sokoto.
Youthful Africa in the 21st Century
At the start of the new millennium Africa is the most ‘youthful’ continent in the world, with approximately 50 percent of its human population below the age of 18 years and a large proportion between the ages of 18 to 25 years. At a time when northern European countries, Japan and other industrialized states are projected to lose population over the next decade, Africa confronts a very different scenario.
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Child Soldiers Project
Children, on account of their special vulnerability are the most seriously affected. This stands to justify the ever increasing attention that the subject of child combatants or child soldiers is now given in many countries of the world. It is relevant to raise awareness of the plight of children used as soldiers and to galvanize government , local and international NGOs and civil society efforts to protect children affected by armed conflict.
International Cultural Youth Exchange (ICYE)
ICYE is an international non-profit youth exchange organisation promoting youth mobility, intercultural learning and international voluntary service. ICYE organises long and short-term exchanges combining home stays with voluntary service in more than 34 countries around the world.
Observatory of Cultural Policies in Africa (OCPA)
OCPA, the Observatory of Cultural Policies in Africa , is an independent pan-African non-governmental organisation aiming to enhance the development of national cultural policies in the region and their integration in human development strategies through advocacy and promoting information exchange, research, capacity building and cooperation at the regional and international level.
Global Youth Culture
“Global youth culture” is the transdisciplinary category by which theorists and policy analysts attempt to understand the emergence of the complex forms of hybrid culture and identity that increasingly occur amongst youth throughout the world due to the proliferation of media like film, television, popular music, the Internet and other information and communication technologies (ICTs) in their everyday lives. “
Microsoft Community Affairs 2006 Unlimited Potential Program Recipients: Middle East and Africa
Focusing on cross-cultural collaboration, this program encourages the creation of multinational teams from all over Africa. These teams will prepare African youth to enter the work force in the global economy, where geographical, language, and cultural barriers no longer exist. Funding from Microsoft will be used for the institutional development process and for management of the program.
Understanding Globalisation and the Reaction of African Youth Groups
Dominant representations of the contemporary global economy abound with endings and beginnings of a particular epoch. What we are witnessing is not just the end of the Cold War, or the passing of a particular period of postwar history, but the end of history as such; that is, the end point of mankind’s ideological evolution and the universalisation of Western liberal democracy as the final form of human government (Fukuyama, 1989).
Youth and Culture
The power of youth & culture is a subject that we can no longer ignore. Young people today are connected to each other in more ways than we can imagine and certainly more than it was a few years back. Young people are no longer dependent on traditions or their parents for knowledge and opinions; they are bombarded with lots of information both useful and non-useful from all over the globe, and as result they have developed their own culture or subculture known as Youth Culture.
Youth Culture and Youth Identity
The globalisation of culture – the effect upon culture of the “increasing connection of the world and its people” – is perhaps nowhere more visible than in the changing nature of the relationship between the world’s youth and their sense of identity (Solomon & Scuderi 2002:13). It has become commonplace to think of the world’s youth as that part of the community who are most receptive, or, alternatively, susceptible to, foreign cultural practices. If childhood means acceptance, and adulthood means conservatism, youth means rebelliousness.
Youth Culture, bandiri, and the Continuing Legitimacy Debate in Sokoto Town
Journal of African Cultural Studies, Vol. 12, No. 1 (Jun., 1999), pp. 27-46.
In spite of the Islamic world's adherence to the tenets of the Qur'an a localised religious culture operates to affirm, contest, or renegotiate the legitimacy of mainstream cultural order. In this paper, we describe the practice of bandiri, a musical performance genre and the attempt of its practitioners to situate bandiri at the centre of youth culture in Sokoto.
Youthful Africa in the 21st Century
At the start of the new millennium Africa is the most ‘youthful’ continent in the world, with approximately 50 percent of its human population below the age of 18 years and a large proportion between the ages of 18 to 25 years. At a time when northern European countries, Japan and other industrialized states are projected to lose population over the next decade, Africa confronts a very different scenario.
Youth Exchange and Study (YES)
Youth Exchange and Study (YES) is a program that was established in October, 2002 and sponsored by ECA to provide scholarships for secondary school students from countries with significant Muslim populations to spend up to one academic year in the U.S. The program is vital to expanding communication between the people of the United States and the partner countries in the interest of promoting mutual understanding and respect.
