The difficulties to define the Topic: the wide area, the diversity on approaches and treatments, the selection of topics –always arbitrary-, the understanding of juvenile cultual phenomena, location of the problems, just to point out the immediate ones.
Of course, a biggest difficulty is the actual topic of this state of art: juvenile culture. If youth is almost irreducible to one concept, delimitation and definition of juvenile culture becomes a truly investigatory exercise. We recognize three big lines: 1- Culture, identity and tradition regarding modernization proposal. 2- Cultural productions of youth 3- Juvenile cultural consume
Massive means of communication are no longer the priority on this deliberations, instead, cultural consumption appears; the tradition-modernity conflict is now seen from the perspective of globalization and, the cultural productions tend to move towards actual juvenile spaces, rather than movements. This amazing phenomena called youth, -so dynamic for its changing nature, so strange and close at the same time- worries us, most likely because it reflects clearly the human condition.
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Message by the Secretary-General of the United Nations, Ban Ki-moon. |
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Last Updated ( Tuesday, 16 August 2011 )
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Celebrated 25 years after the first Year of Youth, this year was set to bring together young people and leaders around the world to think about our common future. |
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Last Updated ( Tuesday, 16 August 2011 )
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Highlighting that the International Youth Day 2011 (12 August) marks the end of the International Year of Youth under the theme ‘Dialogue and Mutual Understanding’, UNESCO Director-General, Irina Bokova, acknowledged the contribution of young women and men across the world to uphold human dignity and fundamental freedoms. |
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Last Updated ( Friday, 12 August 2011 )
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This year's International Youth Day is a particularly important day for youth around the world as it also begins a year-long recognition of young people with the International Year of Youth, whose theme is dialogue and mutual understanding. |
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Last Updated ( Wednesday, 10 August 2011 )
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Nehyda Alas, a teacher and director of Venezuela’s Teresa Carreño Youth Symphony Orchestra, believes that when children are exposed to music their behaviour improves. |
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Last Updated ( Monday, 27 June 2011 )
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Some 150 governments participating in the IV Global Forum on Migration and Development (GFMD) in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico 8-11 November, discussed the impact of migration on children and adolescents in-depth for the first time in this government-led process. |
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Last Updated ( Friday, 19 November 2010 )
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