Youth and Development in Cuba [electronic resource] / edited by Richard N. Gioioso, Zaily Leticia Velázquez Martínez, Carlos Manuel Osorio García.

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. .

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.