1st Edition
Lost Youth in the Global City Class, Culture, and the Urban Imaginary
Series Editor Preface
Acknowledgements
Part I: Introduction
1. Theoretical ‘Breaks’ and Youth Cultural Studies: Post-Industrial Moments, Conceptual Dilemmas and Urban Scales of Spatial Change
2. Spatial Landscapes of Ethnographic Inquiry: Phenomenology, Moral Entrepeneurship and the Investigation of Cultural Meaning
3. Lost Youth and Urban Landscapes: Researching the Interface of Youth Imaginaries and Urbanization
Part II: Young People’s Urban Imaginaries in the Global City: Utopian Fantasies and Classification Struggles
4. Warehousing ‘Ginos’, ‘Thugs’ and ‘Gangstas’ in Urban Canadian Schools: Gender Rivalries and Subcultural Defenses in Late Modernity
5. Urban Imaginaries and Youth Geographies of Emotion: Ambivalence, Anxiety, and Class Fantasies of Home
6. Impossible Citizens in the Global Metropolis: Race, Landscapes of Power and the New ‘Emotional Geographies’ of the City
7. Legitimacy, Risk and Belonging in the Global City: Individualization and the Language of Citizenship
Conclusion
Biography
Jo-Anne Dillabough is Reader at the University of Cambridge and Associate Professor in the Department of Educational Studies, University of British Columbia.
Jacqueline Kennelly is Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Carleton University.
"Based on extensive fieldwork utilizing fresh methodological approaches, solid theoretical orientations, and in-depth ethnographic information, Lost Youth in the Global City will make a major contribution to understanding contemporary youths’ lives."
--Nancy Lesko, Professor, Teachers College, Columbia University
"Lost Youth in the Global City is absolutely leading-edge. It applies classic approaches and concepts in an original way to the contemporary framework of moral panics about disaffected urban youth in the context of globalization."
--Robert Lingard, Professor, School of Education, The University of Queensland, Australia
