Abstract
Young people's popular culture consumption is a part of everyday life. Popular culture shapes young people's understandings of the world and their social interactions and is a site of values construction, identity formation and reproduction. Pop culture is one of the technologies through which everyday peace is understood and created within militarised societies. Young adult (YA) fiction that critiques war from within cultures of violence and inspires social justice micro-movements from within cultures of consumption, disrupting the dominant narratives these cultures embody, creates conceptual and discursive room for (rethinking) initiatives, such as peacebuilding. Considering the works of J.K. Rowling and Suzanne Collins in the context of the last decade's ‘war on terror’ and everyday militarisation, the paper argues that these works, and their wider political uses, offer insights into the interrelated roles of pop culture and of young people in peace formation.
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