The transformation of youth cultural norms and values: a gendered analysis
Cherubini, DanielaORCID: 0000-0002-2763-0526, Camozzi, IlenyaORCID: 0000-0003-3901-4912, Leccardi, Carmen and Rivetti, PaolaORCID: 0000-0002-1794-0504
(2019)
The transformation of youth cultural norms and values: a gendered analysis.
In: Sánchez-Montijano, ElenaORCID: 0000-0003-0194-2190 and Sáanchez-García, Jose, (eds.)
Youth at the margins: Perspectives on Arab Mediterranean Youth.
Europa Regional Perspectives
.
Routledge (Taylor & Francis), Abingdon, UK, pp. 181-201.
ISBN 9781857439663
The chapter reflects on the changes and continuities in the cultural norms and values related
to gender roles, gender relations and the family, as expressed and lived by young men and
women in five countries: Algeria, Morocco, Lebanon, Tunisia and Egypt. In doing so, the
chapter focusses on the processes and practices of cultural innovation emerging among
young Arab Mediterranean generations after the 2011 uprisings. The empirical analysis
presented in the chapter relies on qualitative and quantitative data collected through an
international youth survey and a multisite ethnographic fieldwork (SAHWA Youth Survey
& Ethnographic Fieldwork 2016). Young people emerge as social actors able to cope with
structural limitations and mechanisms of exclusion. At the same time, the analysis shows the
different way of inhabiting the ambivalent condition of “waithood” by young women and
young men in the region.
Item Type:
Book Section
Refereed:
Yes
Uncontrolled Keywords:
Youth; Arab uprisings; Youth; Gender; Agency; Cultural Innovation; Cultural Norms; Arab Mediterranean Countries