Aspirations of Young Adults in Urban Asia

Values, Family, and Identity
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-1-78920-895-5
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 11, 222 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 473 g

Reihe: Asian Anthropologies

Comparing first-person ethnographic accounts of young people living, working, and creating relationships in cities across Asia, this volume explores their contemporary lives, pressures, ideals, and aspirations. Delving into topical issues such as education, social inequality, family pressures, changing values, precarious employment, and political discontent, the book explores how young people are pushing boundaries and imagining their future. In this way, they explore and create the identities of their local and global surroundings.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Westendorp, Mariske

Remmert, Désirée

Finis, Kenneth

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

Introduction: A Theoretical Framework for Exploring Aspirations of Youth in Urban Asia

Mariske Westendorp, Désirée Remmert and Kenneth Finis

Chapter 1. Female Filiality Reconfigured: Integrating Parental Expectations and Personal Aspirations in Beijing and Taipei

Désirée Remmert

Chapter 2. A Journey from Taipei to Shanghai: The Impact of Migration Experience on Taiwanese Young Adults’ Aspirations and Identities in an Asian Global City

Chia-Yuan Huang

Chapter 3. Aspiring to the Good Life: South Korea's Spec-generation

Carolin Landgraf

Chapter 4. Navigating Towards a ‘Good Future’: Significance of Appearance in the Aspirations of Dhaka Middle-class Girls

Suborna Camellia

Chapter 5. Searching for a Fulfilling Life: Temporary Migration to Dublin amongst Young Japanese Women   

Ayako Suzuki

Chapter 6. The Imaginations of Talking Back: Exploring Identities among the Indian Youth in Urban, Middle-class Malaysia

Sally Anne Param

Chapter 7. Law Students, Aspirations and Accomplishments in Colombo, Sri Lanka

Morten Koch Andersen

Chapter 8. Cosmopolitan Coffee Aspirations in Contemporary Vietnam

Sarah G. Grant

Chapter 9. Transcending Aspirations: Buddhism and the Quest for Belonging in Urban Hong Kong

Mariske Westendorp

Conclusion: The Future of Urban Asia

Mariske Westendorp

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Finis, Kenneth
Kenneth Finis is a PhD candidate with the Anthropology Department of Macquarie University in Australia. His current research focuses on the question of the intergenerational transmission of trauma, exploring how young people in Cambodia today see themselves in relation to the past, their family, and their society. He has a professional background in Social Work, having practised in both community youth work and clinical settings.

Remmert, Désirée
Désirée Remmert obtained her PhD in Anthropology from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), UK. Afterwards she conducted postdoctoral research at the University of Tübingen in Germany, Academia Sinica in Taiwan, and at the LSE, UK. Desiree has researched on personal autonomy in decision-making in urban China and Taiwan and is currently conducting research on AI policy in the UK.

Westendorp, Mariske
Mariske Westendorp is an anthropologist and religious studies scholar having lectured in the past at institutions such as the University of Nijmegen and the University of Utrecht. She is currently a postdoc at the University of Groningen in a research project on death and diversity.

Mariske Westendorp is an anthropologist and religious studies scholar having lectured in the past at institutions such as the University of Nijmegen and the University of Utrecht. She is currently a postdoc at the University of Groningen in a research project on death and diversity.