Table of Contents

Introduction: Youth Hybridity and Plural Worlds 1. European Youth Cultures in a Post Colonial World: British Asian Underground and French Hip-Hop Music Scenes 2. ‘I am English too’: Francophone Youth Hybridities in Canada 3. Ingenious: Emerging Hybrid Youth Cultures in Western Sydney 4. The Social Life of Japan’s Adolechnic 5. The Reflexive Youth Culture of Devout Muslim Youth in Indonesia 6. Youth Subcultures in Post-Revolution Iran: An Alternative Reading 7. Music is the Connection: Youth Cultures in Colombia 8. Tribus Urbanas and Chavos Banda: Being a Punk in Catalonia and Mexico 9. Bboys: Hip-Hop Culture in Dakar, Senegal 10. Global? Local? Multi-Level Identifications among Contemporary Skinheads in France Postscript: Global Youth and Transnationalism: The Next Generation

About the Author

Pam Nilan is Senior Lecturer in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Newcastle, Australia. She is currently writing a book on Australian youth and is conducting research with youth in Indonesia and Fiji.

Carles Feixa is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Lleida, Spain. His recent books include Culturas Juveniles en Espana (Madrid, 2004) and Jovens na America Latina (Sao Paulo, 2004). He is Vice-President of ISA Research Committee 34 – Sociology of Youth.