Globalizing the streets : cross-cultural perspectives on youth, social control, and empowerment /
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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Columbia University Press,
[2008]
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.