Youth Politics in Urban Asia

Yi’En Cheng is a Research Fellow at Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore. His research attends to implications of higher education change on young people’s citizenship and their experiences of mobility and immobility, with a focus on East and Southeast Asia.Sonia Lam-Knott is a Research Affiliate at the School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography, University of Oxford. Her research addresses the interplay of politics, history, and space in contemporary Asian cities, with emphasis on Hong Kong.

• Preface: youth, politics, and the city during the pandemic Youth politics in urban Asia: an introduction 1. Urban custodians and hospitable citizens: citizenship and social actions at two liberal arts universities in Hong Kong and Shanghai 2. Politicizing youth in South Korea – the role of Seoul’s educational institutions 3. Feminist politicization of the urban: young female students challenging spatial patriarchies 4. Maps, movements and mobilities: Facebook and ‘checking-In’ among young men in Pune, India 5. ‘The path you will choose won’t be a fairy tale’: urban prefiguration and mountain nostalgia in India’s Northwest Himalayas 6. Reclaiming urban narratives: spatial politics and storytelling amongst Hong Kong youths 7. New forms of youth activism — Hong Kong’s Anti-Extradition Bill movement in the local-national-global nexus Afterword: political triangulations: urban Asian youth politics amidst geopolitical, geoeconomic and geosocial tensions