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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

Youth Urban Worlds: Aesthetic Political Action in Montreal

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Hardback by Julie-Anne Boudreau , Joelle Rondeau

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Both theoretically informed and empirically rich, Youth Urban Worlds explores how urban cultures affect political action amongst youth. Argues that... Read more

    Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc
    Publication Date: 01/04/2021
    ISBN13: 9781119582229, 978-1119582229
    ISBN10: 1119582229

    Number of Pages: 240

    Non Fiction , Politics, Philosophy & Society

    Description

    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

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