Product Description

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.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #528007 in Books
• Published on: 1997-10-23
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 400 pages

Review
'I strongly support this book. The innovative structure and transdisciplinary format should find it a wide market in undergraduate cultural studies, geography, sociology and urban studies courses. It should also be of significant interest to those specialising in work concerned with young people, and the representations of youth culture in the West.' - Cindi Katz, CUNY, New York, USA

From the Back Cover
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 and experiences at home of sibling rivalry, loitering on 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.
The authors consider
* how the media has imagined young people as a particular commodity with shared interests
* how young people resist media stereotypes and create their own independent representations
* the complex ways that youth cultures are played out across different scales
* young people's experiences of everyday geographical locations
* the power of young people to resist adult definitions of their lives and to create new spaces and ways of living.

About the Author
Shane Blackman, Canterbury Christ Church College, UK, Sophie Bowlby, University of Reading, UK, Myrna Margulies Breitbart, Hampshire College, Amherst, USA, Deborah Chambers, Nottingham Trent University, USA, Luke Deforges, University College London, UK, Claire Dwyer, University College London, UK Keith Hetherington, Keele Univerity, UK, Cindi Katz, City University of New York, USA Heinz-Herman Kruger, Martin Luther Universitat Halle, Germany,Marion Leonard, University of Liverpool, UK, Sally Lloyd Evans, University of Reading, UK, Tim Lucas, University of East London, UK, Sara McNamee, University of Hull,Ben Malbon, University College London, UK, Doreen Massey, Open University, UK, Robina Mohammad, Kings College London, UK, David Oswell, Brunel University, UK, David Parker, University of Birmingham, UK, Birgit Richard, University of Essen, Germany Susan Ruddick, University of Toronto, Canada, Tracey Skelton, Nottingham Trent University, UK Fiona Smith, University of Dundee, UK Kevin Stevenson, Brunel University, UK, Gill Valentine, University of Sheffield, UK, Paul Watt, Brunel University, UK