About the Book
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.
Table of Contents:
Introduction Part 1 Youth, Social Control, and Surveillance 1. Youth Experiences of Surveillance: A Cross-National Analysis, by Martin Ruck, Anita Harris, Michelle Fine, and Nick Freudenberg 2. From the Outside Looking In: Young People's Perceptions of Risk and Danger in an East London Borough, by Simon Hallsworth and Janet Ransom Part 2 Street Youth, Homelessness, and Displacement 3. Living Free: Nomadic Traveling Among Homeless Street Youth, by Marni Finkelstein, Richard Curtis, and Barry Spunt 4. Street Youth in New York City and Sao Paulo: Deconstructing the Striking Differences, Global Similarities, and Local Specificities, by Benedito Rodrigues dos Santos 5. Searching for Home: Russian Street Youth and the Criminal Community, by Svetlana Stephenson Part 3 Gangs and Street Cultures in the Globalized City 6. Social Control and Street Gangs in Los Angeles, by James Diego Vigil 7. Youth Subcultures, Resistance, and the Street Organization in Late Modern New York, by David C. Brotherton 8. Children of the Land, Fruit of the Ghetto, by Ana Daza, David C. Brotherton, Gipsy Escobar, and Michael Flynn 9. Victimization, Resistance, and Violence: Exploring the Links Between Girls in Gangs, by Dana M. Nurge and Michael Shively Part 4 Youth, Violence, and Subcultures of Whiteness 10. Ethnic Envy: How Teens Construct Whiteness in Globalized America, by Randy Blazak 11. An Extreme Response to Globalization: The Case of Racist Skinhead Youth, by Pete Simi and Barbara Brents 12. Columbine: The School Shooting as a Postmodern Phenomenon, by Ralph W. Larkin 13. Burning Issues: Fire, Carnival, and Crime, by Mike Presdee 14. 'Cause Fightin' Is Just Fightin': Caucasian Youth, Violence, and Social Exclusion in a Globalized Age, by Michael Flynn Part 5 Innovative Interventions and Youth in Crises 15. Integrating Interventions: Outreach and Research Among Street Youth in the Rockies, by Jean Scandlyn, Suzanne Discenza, and James Van Leeuwen 16. Youth Force in the South Bronx, by Barry Checkoway, Lisa Figueroa, and Katie Richards-Schuster 17. Motivating and Supporting Activist Youth: A View from Nonformal Settings, by Leonisa Ardizzone Contributors Index
About the Author :
Michael Flynn is associate director of the Center on Terrorism at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice and associate professor of psychology at York College, The City University of New York. He is the coeditor of Genocide, War, and Human Survival and Trauma and Self, and he is the editor of The Second Nuclear Age: Political and Psychocultural Perspectives. David C. Brotherton is professor and chair of sociology at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice and at the Graduate Center, the City University of New York. He is a coauthor of The Almighty Latin King and Queen Nation: Street Politics and the Transformation of a New York City Gang and a coeditor of Gangs and Society: Alternative Perspectives and Keeping Out the Other: A Critical Introduction to Immigration Enforcement Today.
