Youth Identities in the Global Cultural Economy

Central and Peripheral Consumer Culture in Denmark and Greenland

Bibliographic Data

ID12599400
AuthorsDannie Kjeldgaard (0000-0001-5306-7928, University of Southern Denmark, corresponding author)
Year2003
Volume6
Issue3
Pages285-304
Publication date2003-08-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueEuropean Journal of Cultural Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1367-5494 • E-ISSN: 1460-3551
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/13675494030063002
OpenAlexW2138589318
LanguageEN
Citations received9
References cited22

Based on a qualitative study among high school students from metropolitan and rural areas in Denmark and Greenland, the article discusses the identity discourses of young people in the global cultural economy and how young people's position in structures of centre and periphery is generative of certain discourses of identity. The discourses are to a large extent generated in relation to consumption and consumer culture, in particular among those who live on the periphery of the global cultural economy. Here, consumer culture is generative of a discourse of `peripheral consciousness', the logic of which is the lack of consumption opportunities - opportunities that are imagined to be available in the centre

Aesthetics · Consciousness · Consumption (sociology · Cultural identity · Economics · Economy · Generative grammar · Geography · Identity (music · Metropolitan area · Position (finance · Relation (database · Social science · Sociology · Gender Studies · Globalization and Cultural Identity · Literacy, Media, and Education · Psychology · Social and Cultural Dynamics

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