| Description |
xi, 383 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm |
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regular print |
| Contents |
1. Cool Places: an Introduction to Youth and Youth Cultures / Gill Valentine, Tracey Skelton and Deborah Chambers -- 2. A Question of Belonging: Television, Youth and the Domestic / David Oswell -- 3. Contested Identities: Challenging Dominant Representations of Young British Muslim Women / Claire Dwyer -- 4. Rethinking British Chinese Identities / David Parker -- 5. Rehabilitating the Images of Disabled Youths / Ruth Butler -- 6. Paper Planes: Travelling the New Grrrl Geographies / Marion Leonard -- 7. The Spatial Construction of Youth Cultures / Doreen Massey -- 8. Disintergrating Developments: Global Economics Restructuring at the Eroding of Ecologies of Youth / Cindi Katz -- 9. Youth Gangs and Moral Panics in Santa Cruz, California / Tim Lucas -- 10. Ravers' Paradise?: German Youth Cultures in the 1990s / Birgit Richard and Heinz Hermann Kruger -- 11. 'Checking Out the Planet': Global Representations/Local Identities and Youth Travel / Luke Desforges -- 12. The Home: Youth, Gender and Video Games: Power and Control in the Home / Sara McNamee -- 13. The School: 'Poxy Cupid!' An Ethnographic and Feminist Account of a Resistant Female Youth Culture: The New Wave Girls / Shane J. Blackman -- 14. The Workplace: Becoming a Paid Worker: Images and Identity / Sophie Bowlby, Sally Lloyd Evans and Robina Mohammad -- 15. The Street: 'It's a Bit Dodgy Around There': Safety, Danger, Ethnicity and Young People's Use of Public Space / Paul Watt and Kevin Stenson -- 16. The Club: Clubbing: Consumption, Identity and the Spatial Practices of Every-Night Life / Ben Malbon -- 17. Between East and West: Sites of Resistance in East German Youth Cultures / Fiona M. Smith -- 18. 'Dana's Mystical Tunnel': Young People's Designs for Survival and Change in the City / Myrna Margulies Breitbart -- 19. Vanloads of Uproarious Humanity: New Age Travellers and the Utopics of the Countryside / Kevin Hetherington -- 20. Modernism and Resistance: How 'Homeless' Youth Sub-Cultures Make a Difference / Susan Ruddick |
| Summary |
Explores the contrasting experiences of contemporary youth |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Human geography.
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Mass media and youth.
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Subculture.
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Youth -- Cross-cultural studies.
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Youth -- Economic conditions.
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Youth -- Drug use.
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Youth -- Social conditions.
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Youth -- Travel.
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| Author |
Skelton, Tracey, 1962-
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Valentine, Gill, 1965-
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| LC no. |
97012259 |
| ISBN |
0415149207 (hbk) |
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0415149215 (paperback) |
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