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Exploring urban youth culture outside of the gang paradigm : critical questions of youth, gender and race on-road / edited by Jade Levell, Tara Young, and Rod Earle ; with a foreword by Claudia Bernard.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Glynn, Martin, 1957- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Youth--Social conditions.
- Youth.
- Sociology, Urban.
- Popular culture.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiv, 208 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Bristol, England : Bristol University Press, 2023.
- Summary:
- Young people 'on-road' are often criminalised due to interlocking structural inequalities. Looking beyond concerns about gangs, the book addresses the concerns of practitioners, policy makers and scholars in analysing aspects and misinterpretations of the shifting realities of young people's urban life.
- Contents:
- Front Cover
- Exploring Urban Youth Culture Outside of the Gang Paradigm: Critical Questions of Youth, Gender and Race On-Road
- Copyright information
- Table of Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- Foreword
- Preface
- 1 Introduction: Youth and On-Road - Making Gender and Race Matter
- Roads of history, paths of patriarchy: the endless excess of youth terminated?
- Young women's lives on-road
- Outline of the collection
- References
- 2 Black, British Young Women On-Road: Intersections of Gender, Race and Youth in British Interwar Youth Penal Reform
- Introduction
- Methodology
- Part I
- The contemporary Black, British urban girl on-road: the contentious preconditions shaping girls' individual and social development
- Black, British young women on-road: intersections of a historic gendered, racial marginality
- Part II
- On-road: forged in modernity's fury of racialised, gendered exclusion
- On-road: race and gender in interwar British youth penal reform
- Conclusion
- 3 Tainted Love: Intimate Relationships and Gendered Violence On-Road
- Road and racial ambiguity
- Road life, patriarchy and gender
- Theorising love
- Fixity, desire and heterosexist eroticism
- Implosion and gendered violence
- 4 (The) Trouble with Friends: Narrative Stories of Friendship and Violence On-Road
- What is friendship?
- Friendships of virtue
- Friendships of pleasure and utility
- Friendship on-road
- What is on-road and on-road life?
- Researching friendship on-road
- Participants, data collection and analysis
- On-road and the expression of friendship
- "There's mates, good mates and best mates": friends and associates
- "I would jump in no questions asked!": loyalty on-road
- "There's no love, it was all fake. It was all lies".
- Conclusion
- Notes
- 5 The Sexual Politics of Masculinity and Vulnerability On-Road: Gender, Race and Male Victimisation
- Sexual prowess and gang stereotypes
- Intersectional blind spots
- Sexual victimisation as anti-masculine
- Methods
- On-road as a space, place and mentality
- On-road as a heteronormative space
- Child sexual abuse
- The blind-spot of boys' sexual exploitation
- Heritage of sexual violence
- Tough men, hidden wounds: gender trauma
- 6 The Road, in Court: How UK Drill Music Became a Criminal Offence
- What is drill music?
- Evidence of things not known
- The artistic nature of drill music, denied
- Dispensing justice through procedural injustice
- Rap experts needed, but anyone will do
- Criminalising road culture, one rhyme at a time
- 7 On-Road Inside: Music as a Site of Carceral Convergence
- Entrapment
- Music and the carceral
- Rap and urban geography in prison
- Authenticity
- 8 Jeta e Rrugës: Translocal On-Road Hustle, Within and from Albania
- Albanian rap and gangs: myth construction and moral panic
- Adultification and Albanian youth migration
- Methodology: music and connection
- Findings
- Neighbourhood solidarity and marginalisation experience
- Nacut ('the boys'): gendered solidarity
- Code of the street
- Kam marrë rrugët ('I took to the streets')
- Note
- 9 'He's shown me the road': Role Model and Roadman
- Role models and roadmen: policy and positioning
- Role models
- Roadmen
- Psychosocial and positioning theory
- Germaine
- Analysis
- 10 Diary of an On-Road Criminologist: An Auto-Ethnographic Reflection
- Provocation
- On-road researcher.
- On-road criminologists versus carwash sociologists
- Who am I?
- Whose story is it?
- Blackness
- Case example: on-road with 'T'
- Discussions: breaking the fourth wall
- 11 Conclusions, Compromises and Continuing Conversations
- Jade's reflections: feminist lens on the soundtracks to subjectivity, relationality, love and community
- Tara's reflections
- Rod's reflections: roads taken, lessons learned, no detour ahead
- Index.
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 25 Jan 2024).
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-5292-2561-2
- 1-5292-2560-4
- OCLC:
- 1395182485
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