Author: Susan M. Ruddick

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-05-22

Total Pages: 269

ISBN-13: 1317960750

Young and Homeless in Hollywood examines the social and spacial dynamics that contributed to the construction of a new social imaginary--"homeless youth"--in the United States during a period of accelerated modernization from the mid 1970s to the 1990s. Susan Ruddick draws from a range of theoretical frameworks and empirical treatments that deal with the relationship between placemaking and the politics of social identity.