Generations and Globalization: Youth, Age, and Family in the New World Economy

"This volume illuminates how families and the communities in which
they are enmeshed negotiate everyday lives with the social, cultural, economic, and
political resources available to them. It provides an excellent example of how
anthropology matters to our understanding of the contemporary world and its global
restructuring." -- Karen Tranberg Hansen, Northwestern
University

Globalization is not only a large-scale phenomenon: it
is also inextricably bound up with intimate aspects of personhood, care, and the
daily decisions through which we make our lives. Looking at sub-Saharan Africa,
Madagascar, Mexico, the U.S., Europe, India, and China, Generations and
Globalization investigates the impact of globalization in the context of families,
age groups, and intergenerational relations. The contributors offer an innovative
approach that focuses on the changing dynamics between generations, rather than
treating changes in childhood, youth, or old age as discrete categories. They argue
that new economies and global flows do not just transform contemporary family life,
but are in important ways shaped and constituted by
it.

Contributors are Jennifer Cole, Deborah Durham, Jessica
Greenberg, Sarah Lamb, Julie Livingston, Roger Magazine, Andrea Muehlebach, Martha
Areli Ramírez Sánchez, and T. E. Woronov.