Cool places: an introduction to youth and youth cultures / Gill Valentine, Tracey Skelton, and Deborah Chambers -- A question of belonging: television, youth and the domestic / David Oswell -- Contested identities: challenging dominant representations of young British Muslim women / Claire Dwyer -- Rethinking British Chinese identities / David Parker -- Rehabilitating the images of disabled youths / Ruth Butler -- Paper planes: travelling the new grrrl geographies / Marion Leonard -- The spatial construction of youth cultures / Doreen Massey -- Disintegrating developments: global economic restructuring and the eroding of ecologies of youth / Cindi Katz -- Youth gangs and moral panics in Santa Cruz, California / Tim Lucas -- Ravers' paradise?: German youth cultures in the 1990s / Birgit Richard and Heinz Hermann Kruger -- 'Checking out the planet': global representations/local identities and youth travel / Luke Desforges -- The home: youth, gender and video games: power and control in the home / Sara McNamee -- The school: 'poxy cupid!' An ethnographic and feminist account of a resistant female youth culture: the new wave girls / Shane J. Blackman -- The workplace: becoming a paid worker: images and identity / Sophie Bowlby, Sally Lloyd Evans, and Robina Mohammad -- The street: 'it's a bit dodgy around there': safety, danger, ethnicity and young people's use of public space / Paul Watt and Kevin Stenson -- The club: clubbing: consumption, identity and the spatial practices of every-night life / Ben Malbon -- Between east and west: sites of resistance in east German youth cultures / Fiona M. Smith -- 'Dana's mystical tunnel': young people's designs for survival and change in the city / Myrna Margulies Breitbart -- Vanloads of uproarious humanity: new age travellers and the utopics of the countryside / Kevin Hetherington -- Modernism and resistance: how 'homeless' youth sub-cultures make a difference / Susan Ruddick.
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Cool Places explores the contrasting experiences of contemporary youth, exploring such topics as representation and resistance in young people's lives by drawing on techno music and ecstasy, clubbing, global backpacking and employment seeking.