Maps, movements and mobilities: Facebook and ‘checking-in’ among young men in Pune, India

Youth politics in urban Asia: an introduction

“…The other three papers in this collection further explores youth efforts in asserting agency over how they are to be seen as citizens, how politics is to be enacted, and how their cities are to manifest. Advani's (2019) paper examines a novel form of politics that lower-middle class young men in Pune, India devise to navigate the city in ways that circumvent their existing experiences of alienation in the city. Making use of Pune's 'proliferation of digital technologies', these young men employ social media to resist the valorized image of the competitive entrepreneurial citizen-subject as embodied within middle-class narratives about 'aspiration, individual achievement and education as social opportunity'.…”