{"title":"Board(er) Games: Space, Culture, and Empire in Jumanji and Its Intertexts","authors":"Samira Nadkarni, Aishwarya Subramanian","doi":"10.1353/jeu.2020.0019","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jeu.2020.0019","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Two recent transmedia narratives—Karuna Riazi's 2017 middle-grade novel The Gauntlet and the 2017 film Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle—have attempted to reclaim the 1995 film Jumanji's colonial narrative (adapted from Chris Van Allsburg's 1981 picture book). Both present forms of the \"portal fantasy,\" in which a protagonist supernaturally breaches the borders of another world. The Gauntlet transports its Muslim Bangladeshi American protagonist to a fantastical board game, whereas Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle reconfigures the genre as multimedia immersive gameplay in a fictional \"other\" realm. Although these reworkings seemingly destabilize white supremacy by centring multi-ethnic American identities, their negotiations with the board game, itself a product of imperial history and a manifestation of the \"gamification\" of empire (wherein progress is measured by control of the board) complicate this. The creation of an American neo-colonial nationalism through a system of orientalizing these fantastic spaces (the jungle within the 2017 film and Riazi's clockwork Islamic city) affirms the need for their control or eventual destruction by the protagonists. This effectively creates cultural borders that extend into these fictional spaces, playing out historical systems of empire in a bid to gain access to neo-empire.","PeriodicalId":42169,"journal":{"name":"Jeunesse-Young People Texts Cultures","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/jeu.2020.0019","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45665249","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"\"You Were Born with a Giant Silver Spoon in Your Mouth\": Geography, the Young, and Social Class in Finnish Films in the 2000s","authors":"Tommi Römpötti","doi":"10.1353/jeu.2020.0020","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jeu.2020.0020","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:In several Finnish films of the 2000s, Finland is portrayed as divided geographically into two parts: the small urban area around Finland's capital, Helsinki, in the south and the rural areas in the country's north. This polarization frames conceptualizations of social class, particularly in films that depict young people leaving their homes. Forbidden Fruit (Kielletty hedelmä) and August (Elokuu) are examples of Finnish cinema in the 2000s that negotiate ideas about class and circulate this polarized imagination through geography. Both films depict the young leaving their homes and then clashing with a geographically marked border. The films are analyzed in the context of the neo-liberal success story which defines the ideal subject of contemporary society. The article argues that the cinematic journeys of the young show the power of geography in reproducing class structures.","PeriodicalId":42169,"journal":{"name":"Jeunesse-Young People Texts Cultures","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/jeu.2020.0020","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48470129","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Shakespeare Criticism and Performance in Children's Literature: In Summer Light and Becca Fair and Foul","authors":"P. Smith","doi":"10.1353/jeu.2020.0022","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jeu.2020.0022","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:In this article, I seek to place Zibby Oneal's In Summer Light and Diedre Baker's Becca Fair and Foul in dialogue with the body of texts that adapt Shakespeare's works into literature for children. In each of these novels, young women interpret and adapt Shakespeare's The Tempest. Both texts are self-reflexive adaptations; the stories themselves resonate thematically and geographically with The Tempest, and yet both are overtly conscious of the process and politics of adaptation containing, as they do, characters who interpret and critique Shakespeare's text.","PeriodicalId":42169,"journal":{"name":"Jeunesse-Young People Texts Cultures","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/jeu.2020.0022","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66421502","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Case Studies of the Child's Perspective","authors":"Lois Burke","doi":"10.1353/jeu.2020.0024","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jeu.2020.0024","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42169,"journal":{"name":"Jeunesse-Young People Texts Cultures","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/jeu.2020.0024","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41421831","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Whose Research Is It? Reflection on Participatory Research with Women and Girls with Disabilities in the Global South","authors":"X. Nguyen","doi":"10.1353/jeu.2020.0023","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jeu.2020.0023","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Drawing on the Transforming Disability Knowledge, Research, and Activism project, funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (2016-2020), this article critically reflects on the project's participatory research process that involved young women and girls with disabilities in the Global South. I discuss epistemological and methodological questions related to the deployment of decolonizing research methodologies in the Global South in relation to theoretical and methodological approaches for engaging girls with disabilities. I argue that a critical, reflexive, and decolonizing research approach that embodies knowledge from the Global South is essential for empowering these girls to express themselves through multiple forms of representation.","PeriodicalId":42169,"journal":{"name":"Jeunesse-Young People Texts Cultures","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/jeu.2020.0023","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43264778","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Integration and Inequality: Mid-1900s Midwest American History, As Told by Modern Youth Literature","authors":"Heather j. Matthews","doi":"10.1353/jeu.2020.0029","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jeu.2020.0029","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42169,"journal":{"name":"Jeunesse-Young People Texts Cultures","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/jeu.2020.0029","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44727402","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Flourishing in Country: An Examination of Well-Being in Australian YA Fiction","authors":"Adrielle Britten, Brooke Collins-Gearing","doi":"10.1353/jeu.2020.0018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jeu.2020.0018","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article is the result of a collaboration between two academics—one Indigenous and one non-Indigenous—to investigate the representation of Indigeneity in two contemporary YA novels. Melissa Lucashenko's killing Darcy is narrated by multiple Indigenous and non-Indigenous characters, whereas Clare Atkins's Nona and Me is told from the perspective of a white character and explores her relationship with an Indigenous community. Cultural identity forms a significant part of well-being, and this article investigates versions of sufficient well-being. It explores how the novels represent flourishing subjects—both Indigenous and non-Indigenous—in the context of Australia as it struggles to come to terms with its colonial past and demonstrates how cognitive mapping replaces damaging colonial assumptions about Indigenous Peoples with a model of overcoming.","PeriodicalId":42169,"journal":{"name":"Jeunesse-Young People Texts Cultures","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/jeu.2020.0018","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47315410","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Navigating Precarities: Agency, Intergenerational Care, and Counter-Narratives among Indigenous Migrant Youth","authors":"Diane Sabenacio Nititham","doi":"10.1353/jeu.2020.0028","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jeu.2020.0028","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42169,"journal":{"name":"Jeunesse-Young People Texts Cultures","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/jeu.2020.0028","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43096710","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Cameras and Constructs and Cancels, Oh My! Thinking Through Youth and Celebrity","authors":"Maria Alberto","doi":"10.1353/jeu.2020.0025","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jeu.2020.0025","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42169,"journal":{"name":"Jeunesse-Young People Texts Cultures","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/jeu.2020.0025","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48450923","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
S. Galman, Naomi Hamer, Erin Spring, Katie Mackinnon, L. Shade, Jennine Hurl-Eamon, Am Ali, Sarah Olutola, Lizzie White, Hanan Mousa, Adam J. Greteman, Julie M. Still, Leonor Ruiz-Guerrero, Ashley P. Jones, David Lewkowich, A. Markland, C. Olver, Sandra Chamberlain-Snider
{"title":"Jeunesse: Young People, Texts, Cultures:","authors":"S. Galman, Naomi Hamer, Erin Spring, Katie Mackinnon, L. Shade, Jennine Hurl-Eamon, Am Ali, Sarah Olutola, Lizzie White, Hanan Mousa, Adam J. Greteman, Julie M. Still, Leonor Ruiz-Guerrero, Ashley P. Jones, David Lewkowich, A. Markland, C. Olver, Sandra Chamberlain-Snider","doi":"10.1353/jeu.2020.0000","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jeu.2020.0000","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article examines the current discourse of “ethical technology” or “tech humanism” as it relates to young people’s use of mobile and social media. Reminiscent of earlier moral and media panics surrounding the use of communication technologies by young people, the current rhetoric focuses on “internet addiction” and other health aspects, and whether and how tech companies should be responsible for the use of their products and services. It is a contested debate that has brought together reformed Silicon Valley tech entrepreneurs, policy-makers, health specialists, academics, educators, and parents. In this article we demonstrate the range of stakeholders deeply engaged in these debates to argue that while there is genuine concern about the power and influence of social media and digital technologies, fears about young people’s relationships with digital technology has been profitable, and discourse on “internet addiction” has worked in ways that protect corporations and redirect condemnation away from them and toward the young people they are claiming to protect. In making this argument, we trace a history of “internet addiction” research in order to situate the current discourse, examine the rhetorical shift that emphasizes the health effects of technology on young people, survey the stakeholders leading these debates, and assesses the corporate responsibility of tech companies that depend on the commodification of young people’s content for their bottom line.","PeriodicalId":42169,"journal":{"name":"Jeunesse-Young People Texts Cultures","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/jeu.2020.0000","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45161466","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}