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Klappentext 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 solidarity! self-respect! and survival in criminalized or marginalized spaces. In doing so! they contextualize and humanize the seemingly senseless actions of these youths! who make visible the class contradictions! social exclusion! and rituals of psychological humiliation that permeate their everyday lives. Zusammenfassung From Rio de Janeiro to London! Medellin to Moscow and New York City! organized street youth share the common distinction of being the children of the recently arrived and established poor! the product of a surplus working class! and minorities. This work examines the struggle for identity and interdependence of these youth. Inhaltsverzeichnis IntroductionPart 1 Youth! Social Control! and Surveillance1. Youth Experiences of Surveillance: A Cross-National Analysis! by Martin Ruck! Anita Harris! Michelle Fine! and Nick Freudenberg2. From the Outside Looking In: Young People's Perceptions of Risk and Danger in an East London Borough! by Simon Hallsworth and Janet RansomPart 2 Street Youth! Homelessness! and Displacement3. Living Free: Nomadic Traveling Among Homeless Street Youth! by Marni Finkelstein! Richard Curtis! and Barry Spunt4. Street Youth in New York City and São Paulo: Deconstructing the Striking Differences! Global Similarities! and Local Specificities! by Benedito Rodrigues dos Santos5. Searching for Home: Russian Street Youth and the Criminal Community! by Svetlana StephensonPart 3 Gangs and Street Cultures in the Globalized City6. Social Control and Street Gangs in Los Angeles! by James Diego Vigil7. Youth Subcultures! Resistance! and the Street Organization in Late Modern New York! by David C. Brotherton8. Children of the Land! Fruit of the Ghetto! by Ana Daza! David C. Brotherton! Gipsy Escobar! and Michael Flynn9. Victimization! Resistance! and Violence: Exploring the Links Between Girls in Gangs! by Dana M. Nurge and Michael ShivelyPart 4 Youth! Violence! and Subcultures of Whiteness10. Ethnic Envy: How Teens Construct Whiteness in Globalized America! by Randy Blazak11. An Extreme Response to Globalization: The Case of Racist Skinhead Youth! by Pete Simi and Barbara Brents12. Columbine: The School Shooting as a Postmodern Phenomenon! by Ralph W. Larkin13. Burning Issues: Fire! Carnival! and Crime! by Mike Presdee14. 'Cause Fightin' Is Just Fightin': Caucasian Youth! Violence! and Social Exclusion in a Globalized Age! by Michael FlynnPart 5 Innovative Interventions and Youth in Crises15. Integrating Interventions: Outreach and Research Among Street Youth in the Rockies! by Jean Scandlyn! Suzanne Discenza! and James Van Leeuwen16. Youth Force in the South Bronx! by Barry Checkoway! Lisa Figueroa! and Katie Richards-Schuster17. Motivating and Supporting Activist Youth: A View from Nonformal Settings! by Leonisa ArdizzoneContributorsIndex 12. Columbine: The School Shooting as a Postmodern PhenomenonRalph W. Larkin13. Burning Issues: Fire! by CarnivalMike Presdee14. 'Cause Fightin' Is Just Fightin': Caucasian Youth! by ViolenceExclusion in a Globalized AgeMichael FlynnPart 5 Innovative Interventions and Youth in Crises15. Integrating Interventions: Outreach and Research Among Street Youth in the RockiesJean Scandlyn! by Suzanne Discenza...
