ISBN:
9780231128223
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9780231128230
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (viii, 318 p)
,
ill
Edition:
Online-Ausg. Palo Alto, Calif ebrary 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Parallel Title:
Print version Globalizing the Streets : Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Youth, Social Control, and Empowerment
DDC:
305.235086/923091732
Keywords:
Gangs Congresses
;
Subculture Congresses
;
Street youth Congresses
;
Subculture - Congresses
Abstract:
Not since the 1960s have the activities of resistance among lower- and working-class youth caused such anxiety in the international community. Yet today the dispossessed are responding to the challenges of globalization and its methods of social control. The contributors to this volume examine the struggle for identity and interdependence of these youth, their clashes with law enforcement and criminal codes, their fight for social, political, and cultural capital, and their efforts to achieve recognition and empowerment. Essays adopt the vantage point of those whose struggle for social
Description / Table of Contents:
Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; PART 1. Youth, Social Control, and Surveillance; 1. Youth Experiences of Surveillance: A Cross-National Analysis; 2. From the Outside Looking In: Young People's Perceptions of Risk and Danger in an East London Borough; PART 2. Street Youth, Homelessness, and Displacement; 3. Living Free: Nomadic Traveling Among Homeless Street Youth; 4. Street Youth in New York City and Sao Paulo: Deconstructing the Striking Differences, Global Similarities, and Local Specifities; 5. Searching for Home: Russian Street Youth and the Criminal Community
Description / Table of Contents:
PART 3. Gangs and Street Cultures in the Globalized City6. Social Control and Street Gangs in Los Angeles; 7. Youth Subcultures, Resistance, and teh Street Organization in Late Modern New York; 8. Children of the Land, Fruit of the Ghetto; 9. Victimization, Resistance, and Violence: Exploring the Links Between Girls in Gangs; PART 4. Youth, Violence, and Subcultures of Whiteness; 10. Ethnic Envy: How Teens Construct Whiteness in Globalized America; 11. An Extreme Response to Globalization: The Case of Racist Skinhead Youth; 12. Columbine: The School Shooting as a Postmodern Phenomenon
Description / Table of Contents:
13. 'Cause Fightin' Is Just Fightin': Caucasian Youth, Violence, and Social Exclusion in a Globalized AgePART 5. Innovative Interventions and Youth in Crises; 14. Integrating Interventions: Outreach and Research Among Street Youth in the Rockies; 15. Youth Force in the South Bronx; 16. Motivating and Supporting Activist Youth: A View from Nonformal Settings; Appendix: Agents of Change Responding to Violence and Exclusion; Contributors; Index
Note:
Includes index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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