Figuring the Future: Globalization and the Temporalities of Children and Youth

by Jennifer Cole

Child laborers in South Asia, child soldiers in Sierra Leone and Uganda, Chinese youth playing computer games to earn virtual gold, youth involved in sex trafficking in the former Soviet republics and Thailand: these are just some of the young people featured in the news of late. The idea that young people are more malleable and the truisms that youth are the future or children are our hope for the future give news stories and scholarly accounts...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1934691054
• ISBN13: 9781934691052
• Release Date: August 2008
• Publisher: School for Advanced Research Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"