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Title: Globalizing the Streets
Condition: New
Subtitle: Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Youth, Social Control, and Empowerment
Author: Fabiola Salek
Contributor: Fabiola Salek (Edited by), David C. Brotherton (Edited by)
Format: Paperback
ISBN-10: 0231128231
EAN: 9780231128230
ISBN: 9780231128230
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Genre: Society & Culture
Topic: Social Sciences
Release Date: 24/06/2008
Description: 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.
Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Item Height: 254mm
Item Length: 178mm
Release Year: 2008

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