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HOPELESS YOUTH! Editors Francisco Martínez and Pille Runnel Hopeless Youth! is a collection of studies exploring what it means to be young today. Young people increasingly create their own identities and solidarities through experiences rather than through political or kin affiliations. It is the youth with the greatest hunger of experiences and cosmopolitan referents. Youngsters are hopeless because do not expect help from anybody and demonstrate scepticism about the future. As shown, contemporary youth is characterised by interim responses and situational thinking, developing particular skills that do not exist in previous generations. Beware that these essays will certainly resonate in your morning, afternoon and late night. Estonian National Museum Veski 32 51014 Tartu Estonia HOPELESS YOUTH! Tartu 2015 Editors: © Estonian National Francisco Martínez, Museum Pille Runnel © (Editing) Francisco English language editors: Martínez, Pille Runnel Daniel Edward Allen, © Authors Marcus Denton Layout, copy-editing: Ivi Tammaru Printing house: Greif Ltd Design: Margus Tamm This book was published with the support of the Font: Estonian National Museum. Aestii – official new font family of the Estonian National Museum, designed by Mart Anderson Graffiti on cover: Edward von Lõngus Photo processing: Arp Karm Endorsements Hopeless Youth! makes clear that the writing, thinking and doing involved in punk and hip hop culture, flâneurism, dubstep and techno music scenes, skateboarding, dumpster diving and hitch- hiking, for example, are central to culture on a more-than-mar- ginal level. This collection of essays is bound to be a staple ref- erence for anyone working with groups and individuals defining places on their own terms. Bradley L. Garrett, University of Southampton 5 Hopeless Youth! Hopeless Youth! is a timely addition to a type of scholarship which is proactive, progressive and provocative. The exclamation mark in the title sums it up for me. In harbouring an array of sharp ideas, unconventional themes, creative forms of dissemination and imaginative collaborations, this collection will have its readers repeatedly thumbing through its pages. Patrick Laviolette, Tallinn University 6 Inequality and unemployment increase while resistance move- ments against problematic politics gather momentum. There has never been a more interesting time to examine the concept of ‘youth’ and elaborate on its future. The eclectic mix of authors included in Hopeless Youth! make this collection an important milestone in the discussion of the most important generation to come. Daniel Briggs, European University of Madrid 7
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