◎ contents 1. introduction : a weird,wired winsome generation - across contemporary discourses on subculture and citizenship / Irena Guildikova 2. disobedient citizens? young animal rights activists in Sweden / Kerstin Jacobsson 3. Rap a la francaise : hip-hops as youth culture in contemporary post-colonial France /Rupa Huq 4. more than music : punk as a counterculture? / Pytrik Schafraad 5. being young in the multimedia world : the omnipresence of the media / Jurg Muller 6. from collective identities to everybody youth solidarity / Youra Petrova 7. youth cultures and social participation in Catalonia,Spain / Roger Martinez 8. parking cars for a living : the symbolic production of marginality / Jose Machado Pais 9. a culture on the periphery? gulgarian youth in discourses of space / Apostol Apostolov 10. finnish teenagers and mobile communication : chatting and storytelling in text messages / Eija-Liisa Kasesniemi 11. young people's media experience in the family and peer goups : research in Munich / Jurgen Barthelmes 12. youth scenes in Austria / Beate Grossegger 13. Revolution without rebels : gender, generation and social change / Ivar Frones 14. Bulgarian transition and the juventisation of society / Petar-Emil Mitev 15. rural youth, transition and citizenship in the United Kingdom / Donna Mackinnon 16. the deconstruction of youth / Mirjana Ule 17. youth cultures and adolescence : limits to autonomous socialisation and demands on youth welfare / Mathias Drilling