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Acknowledgements

1 Cool Places: an Introduction to Youth and Youth Cultures

Gill Valentine

Tracey Skelton

Deborah Chambers

PART ONE: REPRESENTATIONS

2 A Question of Belonging: Television, Youth and the Domestic

David Oswell

3 Contested Identities: Challenging Dominant Representations of Young British Muslim Women

Claire Dwyer

4 Rethinking British Chinese Identities

David Parker

5 Rehabilitating the Images of Disabled Youths

Ruth Butler

6 Paper Planes: Travelling the New Grrrl Geographies

Marion Leonard

PART TWO: MATTERS OF SCALE

7 The Spatial Construction of Youth Cultures

Doreen Massey

8 Disintegrating Developments: Global Economic Restructuring and the Eroding of Ecologies of Youth

Cindi Katz

9 Youth Gangs and Moral Panics in Santa Cruz, California

Tim Lucas

10 Ravers' Paradise?: German Youth Cultures in the 1990s

Birgit Richard

Heinz Hermann Kruger

11 `Checking Out the Planet': Global Representations/Local Identities and Youth Travel

Luke Desforges

PART THREE: PLACE: GEOGRAPHIES OF YOUTH CULTURES

12 The Home: Youth, Gender and Video Games: Power and Control in the Home

Sara McNamee

13 The School: `Poxy Cupid!' An Ethnographic and Feminist Account of a Resistant Female Youth Culture: The New Wave Girls

Shane J. Blackman

14 The Workplace: Becoming a Paid Worker: Images and Identity

Sophie Bowlby

Sally Lloyd Evans

Robina Mohammad

15 The Street: `It's a Bit Dodgy Around There': Safety, Danger, Ethnicity and Young People's Use of Public Space

Paul Watt

Kevin Stenson

16 The Club: Clubbing: Consumption, Identity and the Spatial Practices of Every-Night Life

Ben Malbon

PART FOUR: SITES OF RESISTANCE

17 Between East and West: Sites of Resistance in East German Youth Cultures

Fiona M. Smith

18 `Dana's Mystical Tunnel': Young People's Designs for Survival and Change in the City

Myrna Margulies Breitbart

19 Vanloads of Uproarious Humanity: New Age Travellers and the Utopics of the Countryside

Kevin Hetherington

20 Modernism and Resistance: How `Homeless' Youth Sub-Cultures Make a Difference

Susan Ruddick

List of Contributors

Index