Brazilian Youth

Cláudia Pereira has a PhD (2008) in anthropology from the Graduate Program in Sociology and Anthropology of the Institute of Philosophy and Social Sciences at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (PPGSA – IFCS/UFRJ). She is a lecturer and researcher at Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro. She concentrates her research on social representations of youth in the media, especially in advertising, subcultures and material culture. In 2018, she has been accepted as Visiting Researcher at ICS – Institute of Social Sciences at University of Lisbon, Portugal.

Introduction: Visiting Brazilian youth paradoxes; PART I: BRAZILIAN YOUTH, PUBLIC SPACE AND ACTIVISM; 1. Youth, culture and politics: societal changes and new conceptual challenges; 2. Formative practices of student collectives in a public university; 3. Ways of living and engaging in the city of São Paulo: local and global in the narratives and youth practices of the "School of Activism"; PART II: THE "OTHER" YOUTH AND THE CITY; 4. "It-girls" from Rio: between cultural mediation and urban fences; 5. Youth media consumption in rurban context: aspects from "Brasil profundo"; 6. Rebuilding lives: itinerancies, life projects and field of possibilities of migrant youth in Brazil; PART III: (IN)VISIBILITY STRATEGIES IN YOUTH CULTURES; 7. Affirmation and visibility between prejudices and stigmas of young from favelas in Brazil: let's talk about the "Passinho Dance"; 8. "I want to have 1 million friends": youth sociability and visibility strategies on YouTube; 9. "Children of the dark in a tropical country": media archeology of Brazilian goth subculture and its transformation; 10. Fans who camp in concerts of pop artists: notes on performance and coloniality of Brazilian youth.