Globalizing the Streets: Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Youth, Social Control, and Empowerment

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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. Contents Acknowledgments Introduction PART 1. Youth, Social Control, and Surveillance 1. Youth Experiences of Surveillance: A Cross-National Analysis 2. From the Outside Looking In: Young People's Perceptions of Risk and Danger in an East London Borough PART 2. Street Youth, Homelessness, and Displacement 3. Living Free: Nomadic Traveling Among Homeless Street Youth 4. Street Youth in New York City and Sao Paulo: Deconstructing the Striking Differences, Global Similarities, and Local Specifities 5. Searching for Home: Russian Street Youth and the Criminal Community PART 3. Gangs and Street Cultures in the Globalized City 6. Social Control and Street Gangs in Los Angeles 7. Youth Subcultures, Resistance, and teh Street Organization in Late Modern New York 8. Children of the Land, Fruit of the Ghetto 9. Victimization, Resistance, and Violence: Exploring the Links Between Girls in Gangs PART 4. Youth, Violence, and Subcultures of Whiteness 10. Ethnic Envy: How Teens Construct Whiteness in Globalized America 11. An Extreme Response to Globalization: The Case of Racist Skinhead Youth 12. Columbine: The School Shooting as a Postmodern Phenomenon 13. ’Cause Fightin’ Is Just Fightin’: Caucasian Youth, Violence, and Social Exclusion in a Globalized Age PART 5. Innovative Interventions and Youth in Crises 14. Integrating Interventions: Outreach and Research Among Street Youth in the Rockies 15. Youth Force in the South Bronx 16. Motivating and Supporting Activist Youth: A View from Nonformal Settings Appendix: Agents of Change Responding to Violence and Exclusion Contributors Index