Tracey Skelton, Gill Valentine
Cool Places explores the contrasting experiences of contemporary youth. The chapters draw on techno music and ecstasy in Germany, clubbing in London, global backpacking and gangs in Santa Cruz as well as expereinces at home, on the streets and seeking employment. The contributors use these examples to explore representation and resistance and geographical concepts of scale and place in young people's lives within social, cultural and feminist studies to focus upon the complexities of youth cultures and their spatial representations and interactions. Contributors: Shane Blackman, Sophie Bowlby, Myrna Margulies Breitbart, Deborah Chambers, Luke Deforges, Claire Dwyer, Keith Hetherington, Cindi Katz, Heinz-Herman Kruger, Marion Leonard, Sally Lloyd Evans, Tim Lucas, Sara McNamee,Ben Malbon, Doreen Massey, Robina Mohammad, David Oswell, David Parker, Birgit Richard, Susan Ruddick, Tracey Skelton, Fiona Smith, Kevin Stevenson, Gill Valentine and Paul Watt
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First book to situate human geography analysis in youth cultures themselves
Brilliant contributors - Massey, Katz, Keith etc
Broad geographical coverage
Youth culture is rapidly growing area of study
Figures and plates, Acknowledgements,1 Cool Places: an Introduction to Youth and Youth Cultures, PART ONE: REPRESENTATIONS, PART TWO: MATTERS OF SCALE, PART THREE: PLACE: GEOGRAPHIES OF YOUTH, PART FOUR: SITES OF RESISTANCE, List of Contributors, Index
This edited collection of engaging essays addresses issues of representation and resistance in youth culture today and focuses on the complexities of youth cultures and their spatial representations and interactions.
Drawing on examples from a number of countries, this text introduces the ideas of culture and space - identity politics, gender, race, class, disability, sexuality, performativity, power, agency - through a context relevant to lived experience: youth cultures.
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Tracey Skelton, Gill Valentine
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Figures and plates, Acknowledgements,1 Cool Places: an Introduction to Youth and Youth Cultures, PART ONE: REPRESENTATIONS, PART TWO: MATTERS OF SCALE, PART THREE: PLACE: GEOGRAPHIES OF YOUTH, PART FOUR: SITES OF RESISTANCE, List of Contributors, Index
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Cool Places explores the contrasting experiences of contemporary youth. The chapters draw on techno music and ecstasy in Germany, clubbing in London, global backpacking and gangs in Santa Cruz as well as expereinces at home, on the streets and seeking employment. The contributors use these examples to explore representation and resistance and geographical concepts of scale and place in young people's lives within social, cultural and feminist studies to focus upon the complexities of youth cultures and their spatial representations and interactions. Contributors: Shane Blackman, Sophie Bowlby, Myrna Margulies Breitbart, Deborah Chambers, Luke Deforges, Claire Dwyer, Keith Hetherington, Cindi Katz, Heinz-Herman Kruger, Marion Leonard, Sally Lloyd Evans, Tim Lucas, Sara McNamee, Ben Malbon, Doreen Massey, Robina Mohammad, David Oswell, David Parker, Birgit Richard, Susan Ruddick, Tracey Skelton, Fiona Smith, Kevin Stevenson, Gill Valentine and Paul Watt
