[URBANTH-L]CFP: Youth Culture/s in Europe (UK)

[Angela Jancius]

Youth Culture/s in Europe

CALL FOR PAPERS

A One-Day Conference to be held on 29th June 2007 at Loughborough 
University, UK

The conference is sponsored by the Journal of Contemporary European 
Studies and seeks to provide a forum for critical, interdisciplinary 
debate on discourses of youth cultures in European countries.

Contributions from a wide variety of perspectives are encouraged, 
either as single country or comparative studies, such as:

-         Youth culture and /class/gender/race
-         Youth culture as political contestation
-         Consumption and cultural resistance
-         Cultural practice and commodification
-         Immigrant youth culture
-         Youth-specific media
-         Boys and the 'feminisation' of education
-         'Girl power'
-         Youth as 'key to the future'
-         Youth and crime
-         Global youth culture
-         Spaces of youth culture
-         Poverty and unemployment

To find out more about the JOURNAL OF CONTEMPORARY EUROPEAN STUDIES, 
please visit the journal website at:
http://journalsonline.tandf.co.uk.

Proposals for papers of approx. twenty minutes in length are invited on 
any aspect of this topic.

Proposals, including a 200-400 word abstract, should be sent by 30th 
October 2006 to the organizers at the following address:



Martha Wörsching
Department of Politics, International Relations & European Studies
Loughborough University
LOUGHBOROUGH
LE11 3TU/UK
0044-(0)1509-222 998
M.M.Worsching at lboro.ac.uk