Cool places : geographies of youth cultures / edited by Tracey Skelton & Gill Valentine.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Figures and plates -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Cool Places: an Introduction to Youth and Youth Cultures -- 2. A Question of Belonging: Television, Youth and the Domestic -- 3. Contested Identities: Challenging Dominant Representations of Young British Muslim Women -- 4. Rethinking British Chinese Identities -- 5. Rehabilitating the Images of Disabled Youths -- 6. Paper Planes: Travelling the New Grrrl Geographies -- 7. The Spatial Construction of Youth Cultures -- 8. Disintergrating Developments: Global Economics Restructuring at the Eroding of Ecologies of Youth -- 9. Youth Gangs and Moral Panics in Santa Cruz, California -- 10. Ravers' Paradise?: German Youth Cultures in the 1990s -- 11. 'Checking Out the Planet': Global Representations/Local Identities and Youth Travel -- 12. The Home: Youth, Gender and Video Games: Power and Control in the Home -- 13. The School: 'Poxy Cupid!' An Ethnographic and Feminist Account of a Resistant Female Youth Culture: The New Wave Girls -- 14. The Workplace: Becoming a Paid Worker: Images and Identity -- 15. The Street: 'It's a Bit Dodgy Around There': Safety, Danger, Ethnicity and Young People's Use of Public Space -- 16. The Club: Clubbing: Consumption, Identity and the Spatial Practices of Every-Night Life -- 17. Between East and West: Sites of Resistance in East German Youth Cultures -- 18. 'Dana's Mystical Tunnel': Young People's Designs for Survival and Change in the City -- 19. Vanloads of Uproarious Humanity: New Age Travellers and the Utopics of the Countryside -- 20. Modernism and Resistance: How 'Homeless' Youth Sub-Cultures Make a Difference -- List of Contributors -- Index.

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