Cool places : geographies of youth cultures /
edited by Tracey Skelton & Gill Valentine.
- xi, 383 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Figures and plates -- Acknowledgements -- Cool Places: an Introduction to Youth and Youth Cultures -- A Question of Belonging: Television, Youth and the Domestic -- Contested Identities: Challenging Dominant Representations of Young British Muslim Women -- Rethinking British Chinese Identities -- Rehabilitating the Images of Disabled Youths -- Paper Planes: Travelling the New Grrrl Geographies -- The Spatial Construction of Youth Cultures -- Disintergrating Developments: Global Economics Restructuring at the Eroding of Ecologies of Youth -- Youth Gangs and Moral Panics in Santa Cruz, California -- Ravers' Paradise?: German Youth Cultures in the 1990s -- 'Checking Out the Planet': Global Representations/Local Identities and Youth Travel -- The Home: Youth, Gender and Video Games: Power and Control in the Home -- The School: 'Poxy Cupid!' An Ethnographic and Feminist Account of a Resistant Female Youth Culture: The New Wave Girls -- The Workplace: Becoming a Paid Worker: Images and Identity -- The Street: 'It's a Bit Dodgy Around There': Safety, Danger, Ethnicity and Young People's Use of Public Space -- The Club: Clubbing: Consumption, Identity and the Spatial Practices of Every-Night Life -- Between East and West: Sites of Resistance in East German Youth Cultures -- 'Dana's Mystical Tunnel': Young People's Designs for Survival and Change in the City -- Vanloads of Uproarious Humanity: New Age Travellers and the Utopics of the Countryside -- Modernism and Resistance: How 'Homeless' Youth Sub-Cultures Make a Difference -- List of Contributors -- Index. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20.