1st Edition

Cool Places Geographies of Youth Cultures

Edited By Tracey Skelton, Gill Valentine Copyright 1998
396 Pages
by Routledge

396 Pages
by Routledge

400 Pages
by Routledge

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 as well as expereinces at home, on the streets and seeking employment. The contributors use these examples to explore representation and resistance and geographical concepts of scale and place in young... Read more
Figures and plates, Acknowledgements,1 Cool Places: an Introduction to Youth and Youth Cultures, PART ONE: REPRESENTATIONS, PART TWO: MATTERS OF SCALE, PART THREE: PLACE: GEOGRAPHIES OF YOUTH, PART FOUR: SITES OF RESISTANCE, List of Contributors, Index

Biography

Tracey Skelton, Gill Valentine