Fijian Urban Youth Futures. Arts | Transmission | Resilience

Jacobs, Karen (2025) Fijian Urban Youth Futures. Arts | Transmission | Resilience. Pacific Arts, 25 (2). ISSN 1018-4252

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Abstract

The online exhibition iSausauvou: Arts | Transmission | Resilience (2022–ongoing) was organized in the framework of “Urban Pathways: Fiji. Youth. Arts. Culture.,” a collaborative research project funded by the British Academy’s Youth Futures program. Following an overview of the project and its core activities, this article focuses on the online exhibition, which showcases artworks created by young people who live in Fiji and its diaspora communities. Asked to reflect on urban youth culture, these young artists contemplate the social and cultural expectations that come with being youth in a multifaith, multilingual urban environment during the COVID-19 pandemic. By putting these youth artistic expressions within the framework of scholarship of “the future,” this paper aims to move away from the tendency to associate youth with problems such as youth unemployment and lack of education, and instead focus on how youth imagine the future through art.

Item Type:	Article
UEA Research Groups:	Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Research Centres > Sainsbury Research Unit for the Arts of Africa, Oceania and the Americas Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Research Groups > Gender and Its Intersections
Related URLs:	https://pacificarts.org/journal/ https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4gh0j75...
Depositing User:	LivePure Connector
Date Deposited:	04 Nov 2025 12:31
Last Modified:	05 Nov 2025 00:56
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/100890
DOI:	10.5070/PC225265594

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