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David Brotherton - Globalizing the Streets – Cross–Cultural Perspectives on Youth, Social Control and Empowerment - 9780231128223 - V9780231128223
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Globalizing the Streets – Cross–Cultural Perspectives on Youth, Social Control and Empowerment

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Description for Globalizing the Streets – Cross–Cultural Perspectives on Youth, Social Control and Empowerment hardcover. 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. Editor(s): Salek, Fabiola; Flynn, Michael; Brotherton, David C. Num Pages: 334 pages, 2 illus., 8 tables. BIC Classification: JFSP2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 254 x 178. Weight in Grams: 771.
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, ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
334
Condition
New
Number of Pages
334
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231128223
SKU
V9780231128223
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Ref
99-15

About David Brotherton
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 ... Read more

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