Globalizing the Streets : : Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Youth, Social Control, and Empowerment /

Globalizing the Streets : : Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Youth, Social Control, and Empowerment / / ed. by Fabiola Salek, David C. Brotherton.

Show other versions (1)

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 s...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
MitwirkendeR:
Ardizzone, Leonisa,
Blazak, Randy,
Brents, Barbara,
Brotherton, David C.,
Checkoway, Barry,
Curtis, Richard,
Daza, Ana,
DeCesare, Donna,
Discenza, Suzanne,
Escobar, Gipsy,
Figueroa, Lisa,
Fine, Michelle,
Finkelstein, Marni,
Flynn, Michael,
Freudenberg, Nick,
Hallsworth, Simon,
Harris, Anita,
Larkin, Ralph W.,
Leeuwen, James Van,
Nurge, Dana M.,
Ransom, Janet,
Richards-Schuster, Katie,
Ruck, Martin,
Scandlyn, Jean,
Shively, Michael,
Simi, Pete,
Spunt, Barry,
Stephenson, Svetlana,
Vigil, James Diego,
dos Santos, Benedito Rodrigues,
HerausgeberIn:
Brotherton, David C.,
Salek, Fabiola,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2008]
©2008
Year of Publication:2008
Language:English
Online Access:
Physical Description:1 online resource (334 p.) :; 2 illus., 8 tables
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • 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 São Paulo: Deconstructing the Striking Differences, Global Similarities, and Local Specificities
  • 5. Searching for Home: Russian Street Youth and the Criminal Community
  • Part 3. Gangs and Street Cultures in the Globalized City
  • 6. Social Control and Street Gangs in Los Angeles
  • 7. Youth Subcultures, Resistance, and the 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
  • 13. 'Cause Fightin' Is Just Fightin': Caucasian Youth, Violence, and Social Exclusion in a Globalized Age
  • Part 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

Similar Items