Youth and Development in Cuba

As young people constitute the future development of Cuba, constant analysis of their diverse life experiences is necessary in new and diverse publications by a variety of researchers. This book examines how youth practices intersect with and are influenced by development - economic, human, psychological, social - and how young people negotiate and influence development trends in Cuba. The point of departure for Youth and Development in Cuba is a pluralistic understanding of youth(s) - that is, juventud(es) in Spanish - seen as an active generational subject, influenced sociohistorically, as a kind of collective identity. The collection of chapters from international scholars addresses issues relevant to young people, their experiences and participation in a variety of contexts and explores the diversity of factors that intervene in and shape the current problématiques of young people in Cuba's eastern province of Holguín

Autorentext

Richard N. Gioioso is Associate Professor of Political Science and Director of Latin American and Latinx Studies at Saint Joseph's University, USA.

Carlos Manuel Osorio García is Assistant Professor of Psychology at the Universidad de Holguín, Cuba.

Zaily Leticia Velázquez Martínez is Assistant Professor of Psychology at the Universidad de Holguín, Cuba

Inhalt

Chapter 1 Introduction: What's so important about youth(s) in Cuba?.- Chapter 2 Studies with/about youth: Methodological dialogues about the social scientific study of life.- Chapter 3 Professional reaffirmation among college students.- Chapter 4 Disability among youth: Understandings from type-2 Ataxia Espinocerebelosa Zuleyra González Melik.- Chapter 5 Cultural violence in youth?.- Chapter 6 Attitudes of college journalism majors about gender violence in couples.- Chapter 7 Emergent values in the relationships of contemporary college students in Holguín.- Chapter 8 Temporal organization and human development: Revealing circumstances and relationships among college students in Holguín.- Chapter 9 Untangling life alternatives among youth: Experimenting with prostitution.- Chapter 10 Readings about gender and generation to (re)think rural spaces.- Chapter 11 Youth with existential crises: An interdisciplinary approach to interventions.- Chapter 12 Sociocultural development and 21st century challenges to Cuban youth.