Youth Urban Worlds Aesthetic Political Action in Montreal |
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| Author:
| Boudreau, Julie-Anne
Rondeau, Joelle |
| Series title: | IJURR Studies in Urban and Social Change Book Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-1-119-58226-7 |
| Publication Date: | Mar 2021 |
| Publisher: | John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated
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| Book Format: | Digital download |
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Book Description:
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Both theoretically informed and empirically rich, Youth Urban Worlds explores how urban cultures affect political action amongst youth.
- Argues that urban cultures challenge the very meaning and contours of the political process
- Includes ethnographies, delving into the perspectives and knowledges of racialized youth, urban farmers, and "voluntary risk takers," like dumpster divers, building climbers,...
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Both theoretically informed and empirically rich, Youth Urban Worlds explores how urban cultures affect political action amongst youth.
- Argues that urban cultures challenge the very meaning and contours of the political process
- Includes ethnographies, delving into the perspectives and knowledges of racialized youth, urban farmers, and "voluntary risk takers," like dumpster divers, building climbers, and student protestors
- Theorizes that aesthetics are an increasingly crucial form of political action in the contemporary urban setting and explains the impact of aesthetics on the political
- Examines the centrality of fun, warmth, aesthetics, and embodiment to these youth's experience of being in the world
- Explains how youth are able to practically and concretely impact the political process through the performance of risky and disruptive behavior