- Title
- Youth culture in/beyond Indonesia: hybridity or assemblage?
- Creator
- Nilan, Pam
- Relation
- Critical Youth Studies for the 21st Century p. 267-283
- Relation
- Youth in Globalizing World
- Relation
- http://www.brill.com/products/book/critical-youth-studies-21st-century
- Publisher
- Brill
- Resource Type
- book chapter
- Date
- 2015
- Description
- This chapter engages with the challenge of describing the complexity and plenitude of contemporary youth cultures. It compares two different concepts for anlaysing sets of youth cultural practices: hybridity and assemblage. Examples from a study of Indonesian youth are analysed to show the different explanations developed using these two paradigms of interpretation. Indonesian young people are growing up in an increasingly globalised cultural environment marked by a hyper-commodified range of consumer options, yet are equally strongly influenced by official religious and government repudiation of the hyper-real discourse of sexuality that is promulgated by the global mass media, advertising and the internet. Moreover, for Muslim Indonesian youth - 90 per cent of the generation - their sense of becoming is shadowed by the global inter-cultural and inter-religious relations fostered by more than a decade of the so-called War on Terror. In the context of the 21st Century youth researchers across the globe grapple with how to adequately depict and explain contemporary youth cultures in developing countries and beyond. This chapter engages with both a critique of hybridity, which has often been used for the purpose, and an appraisal of assemblage, which offers a more nuanced exploratory framework. Instead of assuming that contemporary young Indonesians are in the process of becoming a fixed, static thing called an adult in their culture, such an approach means acknowledging that they are in a process of becoming in the sense proposed by Deleuze and Guattari (1897) with a 'multiplicity' of possible outcomes.
- Subject
- youth culture; Indonesia; youth cultural practices; hybridity
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1316266
- Identifier
- uon:23119
- Identifier
- ISBN:9789004243750
- Language
- eng
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