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

Edited by Michael Flynn and David C. Brotherton

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Paper, 334 pages, 2 illus., 8 tables
ISBN: 978-0-231-12823-0
$32.50 / £22.50

June, 2008
Cloth, 334 pages, 2 illus., 8 tables
ISBN: 978-0-231-12822-3
$74.50 / £51.50

"Globalizing the Streets makes the compelling case that marginalized young people all over the world are being drawn to the culture of the streets. The volume shows that these youths are searching for identity, meaning, fellowship, security, a measure of excitement and joy, and a way of coping with a global social order that seems no longer to have a place for them. A very important and powerful work." — Kai Erikson, William R Kenan Jr. Professor Emeritus of Sociology and American Studies, Yale University

"This extremely timely work offers an approach to the youth crisis based on the rich, largely untapped potential of those in the margins wherever they may be found. In doing so, the authors firmly reject the usual pathologizing frames of reference within which our kids are most often located. A great book for students of resistance and activists alike." — Tom Hayden, former California state senator and author of Street Wars: Gangs and the Future of Violence

"This is the book on youth we have all been waiting for: international in its orbit and interdisciplinary in its research, it combines feisty theory with grass roots ethnography backed up by creative politics. It places today's youth firmly in a transnational perspective roundly debunking and dismissing stereotypes in a world of continuous moral panics about young people and the demonization of street gangs in particular. If you have any interest or concern about what is going on in the streets of our big cities, in the real world outside of the tabloid press, read this book." — Jock Young, University of Kent, author of The Vertigo of Late Modernity

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.Michael Flynn, PhD, is associate director of the Center on Terrorism at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice of The City University of New York, and an assistant professor of Psychology at York College and CUNY. He is the co-editor (with Charles B. Strozier) of "Genocide, War and Human Survival," "Trauma and Self," and "The Year 2000: Essays on the End." He is the editor of "The Second Nuclear Age: Political and Psychocultural Perspectives." His research interests include the psychological and political economy of urban violence; the psychological effects of living in a nuclearized world; literary, autobiographical, and psychohistorical approaches to the self and trauma; and the public and media role of the psychologist. David Brotherton, PhD, is the Chair of the Sociology Department at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice of the City University of New York. Dr. Brotherton has been researching youth subcultures for more than a dozen years and co-founded the Street Organization Project in 1997. For the last few years he has been organizing annual international academic/practitioner/community conferences on street youth and is currently focusing on youth gangs and delinquency. He is the co-editor of Gangs and Society, The Almighty Latin King and Queen Nation (both from Columbia), and the upcoming Keeping Out the Other (Columbia).

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