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Reconfiguring Drinking Cultures, Gender, and Transgressive Selves
This book presents an in-depth analysis of young people’s experiences of diverse drinking practices, including heavy drinking and drunkenness, as fun...
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Neo-Victorian Young Adult Narratives
Neo-Victorian Young Adult Narrativesexamines the neo-Victorian themes and motifs currently appearing in young adult fiction—specifically addressing...
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Language Practices Among Children and Youth in Indonesia
This open access book presents studies of language use in Indonesia, focusing on children and youth. It reports on developments in the use of...
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Saudi Youth Policies and Practices
This edited collection develops a more balanced understanding of the dilemmas, challenges and opportunities associated with youth policy formulation...
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Things as Yet Undone: Encountering the Past Through the Present
Neo-Victorian Young Adult Narratives is an ongoing project that seeks to provide conversation about the intensified interest and curiosity in...
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Prude Pirates and Other Contradictory Bodies: Gender, Ideology, and Identity in Adolescence
This chapter examines the relationship between music and identity over time through an autoethnographic reflection on the role of Helium’s Pirate...
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OutKast’s Speakerboxxx/The Love Below: Musical Theatre, Performance, and Style
When I started high school, I was shy, timid, and insecure: a major departure from the confident, outgoing adolescence I had once been. I had become...
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Part III: The 2000s
This chapter traces forms of music culture that evolved over the 2000s, as the music industry and socio-cultural identity landscapes shifted. It...
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Everything Will Change: Revisiting The Postal Service’s Give Up
Why is our culture so ambivalent about nostalgia? In this essay, Mackenzie explores the cultural pathology of nostalgia, how we are trained away from...
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Something I Can Say, Something I Can Do: I’ve Come for My Emotional Rescue
The year 1980 was sold to us as “Morning in America” by our first modern empty celebrity president, a man whose mission was our emotional rescue from...
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Introduction: Drinking Cultures in Nigeria, Gender, Transgression, and Study Methodology
This introductory chapter provides detailed contextual background information about the multi-cultural, ethnic, and religious diversities in Nigeria...
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Gendered Struggles for Drinking/Leisure Spaces
Public leisure spaces such as bars, pubs, and nightclubs are gendered landscapes in Nigeria. However, scholars are yet to explore the contestations...
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Conclusion
Throughout this book, the central arguments have focused on the intersections of culture, gender, transgression and conformity and how young people...
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Drinking Bouts: Motivations, Resistance, and Transgression
The chapter provides in-depth analyses of the different forms of drinking games that young men and women play in contemporary Nigeria, the contexts...
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Plushies, Dollies, and Action Figurines
This chapter examines videogames with toylike avatars, including Pikmin 3, FallGuys, Scribblenauts Unlimited, and the LittleBigPlanet series. I...
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Dreaming the Myth Onwards
The material turn in cultural studies means that the spotlight has shone on child-players, but child-characters have remained in the wings....
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Child Heroes
In this chapter, I analyse videogames that cast a child-character in the role of hero. I point out the recurrence of cooperative mechanics in these...
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The Kid in the Fridge
Over a third of the named NPC child-characters in my dataset were murder victims, their brief lives cut short by drownings, shootings, stabbings,...
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Re/articulated Monstrosity: Mary and Her Creature
One of the most famous and well-examined authors in biofiction for young adults is Mary Godwin Shelley; such a focus on her life and works in the...
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Irregulars: Sherlockian Youth as Outsiders
This chapter explores the ways several series now take as their point of departure the early life—or develo** character(s)—of Sherlock Holmes: how...