Youth Culture,Media and Globalization Processes in Greenland

Rygaard, Jette

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“…The Nordregio report shows that while sports facilities are important to the urban population, outdoor activities in nature and arts and crafts are more often mentioned as leisure activities in rural communities (Nordregio 2010: 16). In an analysis of young people's everyday life in Greenland Rygaard (2003) states:…”

Section: Greenlandmentioning

confidence: 99%

Place, (In)Equality and Gender

Faber¹,

Nielsen²,

Bennike³

2015

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Section: Greenlandmentioning

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Place, (In)Equality and Gender

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Bennike³

2015

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“…Four types of global elements were identified: first, those referring to a global entertainment or consumer culture, whether at the level of bands, chart song lyrics, international sport, designer labels or other material artefacts; second, global technology, including TV programmes, the Internet, mobile phones etc; third, references to international travel (see Rygaard 2003); and fourth, global concerns, including war, global warming etc. In the subsample (n = 96) of adolescent texts that is the focus of this article, almost two-thirds (64 per cent) of the main texts were assessed as having global elements (68 per cent of the boys' and 61 per cent of the girls' respectively).…”

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Globalization, Individualization and Gender in Adolescents’ Texts

O’Connor

2006

International Journal of Social Research Methodology

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IntroductionGlobalization has been variously defined, sometimes including a cultural, political, and/or economic element and frequently linked with the dominance of consumer culture and a focus on global media products. However, it has also been widely noted that this focus on transnational processes and technologies underestimates variation in the meaning and assimilation of global products and symbols within particular local cultural contexts (Bennett, 2000;Paulgaard, 2002). The methodological purpose of this article is to illustrate the way in which globalization can be explored in young people's written texts and other visual data. In addition, it highlights the difficulties of looking at individualization in such texts, and in particular differentiating between it and the persistence of stereotypical ways of 'doing boy/girl'.A number of theorists (such as Beck, 1992Beck, , 1994 Beck & Beck-Gernsheim, 2002;Giddens, 1991) have suggested that young people's experiences can best be explored in the context of a theory of individualization. Thus, rather than identity being expressed in terms of structural categories (such as age or class position), the focus is on individual choice and on 'becoming' in a context where information and knowledge are being rapidly absorbed and revised. In this reflexive context, Giddens (1991, p. 217) suggested that: 'What gender identity is, and how it is expressed, has become itself a matter of multiple options'. However, although gender is seen as 'part of a collective moulding of individual behaviour' that has been rendered obsolete, it is not consistently referred to as an outdated category (Beck & Beck-Gernsheim, 2002, pp. xxiv and 203, respectively). Thus, conceptually as well as methodologically, there are difficulties in differentiating between individualization and stereotypical ways of 'doing boy/girl'.The texts that are the focus of this article were part of a wider sample of texts written in a school context by those in Fifth Class in First Level (typically aged 10-12 years) and those in Transition Year in Second Level (typically aged 14-17 years) in response to an invitation, to 'tell their life stories', to write a page 'describing themselves and the Ireland that they inhabit' so as to 'to provide a national data base' 'an invaluable archive'. Thus, they can be seen as similar to solicited diaries (Bell, 1998) or externally required texts (Stanley, 2000). In addition to these main texts, the young people were given the option of using the reverse side of the sheet creatively for drawings, poems, songs, lyrics, or anything else that they wished to include. The latter type of data has begun to be seen as a way of stepping outside a particular verbal culture (Prosser, 1998) and providing insights into young people's concepts of health (Wetton & McWhirter, 1998); family (O'Brien, Alldred, & Jones, 1996); examinations (Leonard, 2003) and self image (Wakefield & Underwager, 1998). It has been argued that the difficulties posed by such material are not necessarily much grea...

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“…Maybe precisely because of the shortage of official buildings our young photographers seem to be especially eager to display for us the signs of urban institutions. They proudly displayed, via their shots and their diary texts, everything from the school to the jail and used-like the rest of the participants-a lot of celluloid, and paper on one of the great interest of young people, the shopping facilities (Rygaard 2003). In Ittoqqortoormiit the big shopping store, the Co-op and its storage house, as well as the new "hot" 24-hour convenience store Sumaar formed these desired facilities.…”

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The city life of youths in Greenland

Rygaard

2009

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Dans la littérature groenlandaise traditionnelle comme chez les critiques de la civilisation moderne, la modernisation et l’urbanisation sont des sources d’aliénation, de misère urbaine et de stress. Pourtant, plus en plus de gens essayent de se rendre dans les grandes villes. Un centre urbain comme Nuuk apparait d’ailleurs comme un modèle de succès. À l’opposé, les petits villages isolés font face à des problèmes insolubles de pauvreté et de désordres sociaux, à cause du chômage et du coût de la vie très élevé. Dans cet article, des jeunes originaires de Nuuk et du petit village est-groenlandais d’Ittoqqortoormiit discutent de la vie urbaine. Les données proviennent de trois projets successifs, CAM I-II-III, réunissant photos et textes de jeunes Groenlandais entre 10 et 20 ans concernant des thèmes comme «mon école», «mes amis», «mes moyens de communication», et «ma ville». L’analyse des données révèle que ces jeunes se présentent en conformité avec les théories urbaines courantes sur les différents styles de vie, soit comme des ruraux appréciant leur tranquillité et les liens sociaux étroits, soit comme des urbains attachés au rythme de vie plus rapide de la ville.In traditional Greenlandic literature as among the critics of modern civilisation, modernisation and urbanisation correspond to alienation, loneliness, urban misery, and stress. On the other hand, more and more people try to get to the big cities. An urban centre like Nuuk seems to be a success. In contrast, the small remote settlements in Greenland continuously face major problems of social disorders and poverty because of extreme living costs and unemployment. In this article, life in the city is discussed through the eyes of youths from Nuuk and the rural East Greenlandic small town of Ittoqqortoormiit. The data come from three succeeding projects, CAM I-II-III, which included photos and texts from young Greenlanders between 10 and 20 years of age regarding themes such as “my school,” “my friends,” “my media,” and “my city.” An analysis of the material produced reveals that the views of these young people fit urban theories concerning life style and behaviour; rural dwellers submitting to a life with close connections and tranquillity opposite to the hectic city dwellers’ life in an urban area

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Youth Culture,Media and Globalization Processes in Greenland

Cited by 15 publications

References 2 publications

Place, (In)Equality and Gender

Place, (In)Equality and Gender

Globalization, Individualization and Gender in Adolescents’ Texts

The city life of youths in Greenland

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