Globalizing the Streets: Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Youth, Social Control, and Empowerment
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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, they contextualize and humanize the seemingly senseless actions of these youths, who make visible the class contradictions, social exclusion, and rituals of psychological humiliation that permeate their everyday lives.
Acknowledgments ixIntroduction 1Youth, Social Control, and SurveillanceYouth Experiences of Surveillance: A Cross-National Analysis Martin Ruck Anita Harris Michelle Fine Nick Freudenberg 15From the Outside Looking In: Young People's Perceptions of Risk and Danger in an East London Borough Simon Hallsworth Janet Ransom 31Street Youth, Homelessness, and DisplacementLiving Free: Nomadic Traveling Among Homeless Street Youth Marni Finkelstein Richard Curtis Barry Spunt 47Street Youth in New York City and Sao Paulo: Deconstructing the Striking Differences, Global Similarities, and Local Specificities$dBenedito Rodrigues Dos Santos 62Searching for Home: Russian Street Youth and the Criminal Community Svetlana Stephenson 77Gangs and Street Cultures in the Globalized CitySocial Control and Street Gangs in Los Angeles James Diego Vigil 95Youth Subcultures, Resistance, and the Street Organization in Late Modern New York David C. Brotherton 114Children of the Land, Fruit of the Ghetto Ana Daza David C. Brotherton Gipsy Escobar Michael Flynn 133Victimization, Resistance, and Violence: Exploringthe Links Between Girls in Gangs Dana M. Nurge Michael Shively 147Youth, Violence, and Subcultures of WhitenessEthnic Envy: How Teens Construct Whiteness in Globalized America Randy Blazak 169An Extreme Response to Globalization: The Case of Racist Skinhead Youth Pete Simi Barbara Brents 185Columbine: The School Shooting as a Postmodern Phenomenon Ralph W. Larkin 203'Cause Fightin' Is Just Fightin': Caucasian Youth, Violence, and Social Exclusion in a Globalized Age Michael Flynn 216Innovative Interventions and Youth in CrisesIntegrating Interventions: Outreach and Research Among Street Youth in the Rockies Jean Scandlyn Suzanne Discenza James van Leeuwen 235Youth Force in the South Bronx Barry Checkoway Lisa Figueroa Katie Richards-Schuster 262Motivating and Supporting Activist Youth: A View from Nonformal Settings Leonisa Ardizzone 273Agents of Change Responding to Violence and Exclusion Donna Decesare 287Contributors 301Index 307
