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Globalizing the Streets: Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Youth, Social Control, and Empowerment

Edited by Michael Flynn and David C. Brotherton

Paper, 334 pages, 2 illus., 8 tables
ISBN: 978-0-231-12823-0
$32.50 / £19.00

August, 2008
Cloth, 334 pages, 2 illus., 8 tables
ISBN: 978-0-231-12822-3
$79.50 / £47.00

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.

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About the Author

Michael Flynn is associate director of the Center on Terrorism at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice and associate professor of psychology at York College, The City University of New York. He is the coeditor of Genocide, War, and Human Survival and Trauma and Self, and he is the editor of The Second Nuclear Age: Political and Psychocultural Perspectives. David C. Brotherton is professor and chair of sociology at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice and at the Graduate Center, the City University of New York. He is a coauthor of The Almighty Latin King and Queen Nation: Street Politics and the Transformation of a New York City Gang and a coeditor of Gangs and Society: Alternative Perspectives and Keeping Out the Other: A Critical Introduction to Immigration Enforcement Today.

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