Format:
1 Online-Ressource (viii, 318 pages)
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illustrations
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Online-Ausg. [S.l.] HathiTrust Digital Library Electronic reproduction
ISBN:
0231128231
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0231502265
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0231128223
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9780231128230
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9780231502269
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9780231128223
Content:
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
Content:
Part 1. Youth, social control, and surveillance : Youth experiences of surveillance: a cross-national analysis / Martin Ruck [and others] -- From the outside looking in: young people's perceptions of risk and danger in an east London borough / Simon Hallsworth and Janet Ransom -- Part 2. Street youth, homelessness, and displacement : Living free: nomadic traveling among homeless street youth / Marni Finkelstein, Richard Curtis, and Barry Spunt -- Street youth in New York City and São Paulo: deconstructing the striking differences, global similarities, and local specificities / Benedito Rodrigues Dos Santos -- Searching for home: Russian street youth and the criminal community / Svetlana Stephenson -- Part 3. Gangs and street cultures in the globalized city : Social control and street gangs in Los Angeles / James Diego Vigil -- Youth subcultures, resistance, and the street organization in late modern New York / David C. Brotherton -- Children of the land, fruit of the ghetto / Ana Daza [and others] -- Victimization, resistance, and violence: exploring the links between girls in gangs / Dana M. Nurge and Michael Shively -- Part 4. Ethnic envy: how teens construct whiteness in globalized America / Randy Blazak -- An extreme response to globalization: the case of racist skinhead youth / Pete Simi and Barbara Brents -- Columbine: the school shooting as a postmodern phenomenon / Ralph W. Larkin -- 'Cause fightin' is just fightin': Caucasian youth, violence and social exclusion in a globalized age / Michael Flynn -- Part 5. Innovative interventions and youth in crises : Integrating interventions: outreach and research among street youth in the Rockies / Jean Scandlyn, Suzanne Discenza, and James van Leeuwen -- Youth force in the South Bronx / Barry Checkoway, Lisa Figueroa, and Katie Richards-Schuster -- Motivating and supporting activist youth: a view from nonformal stetting / Leonisa Ardizzone -- Appendix: Agents of change responding to violence and exclusion / Donna Decesare
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Electronic reproduction
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
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In English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780231128223
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780231128230
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0231128231
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Globalizing the streets New York : Columbia University Press, ©2008
Language:
English
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