Youth Beyond the City
Youth Beyond the City

Author: Farrugia, David

Publisher: Policy Press

Published: 2022-06-15

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13: 1529212030

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This interdisciplinary collection charts the experiences of young people in places of spatial marginality around the world, dismantling the privileging of urban youth, urban locations and urban ways of life in youth studies and beyond. Expert authors investigate different dimensions of spatiality including citizenship, materiality and belonging, and develop new understandings of the complex relationships between place, history, politics and education. From Australia to India, Myanmar to Sweden, and the UK to Central America, international examples from both the Global South and North help to illuminate wider issues of intergenerational change, social mobility and identity. By exploring young lives beyond the city, this book establishes different ways of thinking from a position of spatial marginality.

Youth Beyond the City
Youth Beyond the City

Author: Aina Tarabini

Publisher: Policy Press

Published: 2022-06-15

Total Pages: 274

ISBN-13: 1529212049

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This interdisciplinary collection charts the experiences of young people in rural and regional areas and city outskirts around the world. International experts investigate aspects of marginal spatiality including citizenship, materiality and belonging, and look at the complex relationships between place, history, politics and education.

Identity and Inner-city Youth
Identity and Inner-city Youth

Author: Shirley Brice Heath

Publisher:

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 250

ISBN-13: 9780807732526

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Combining humanism and social science, the authors illustrate how youth organizations enable the young to link a sense of self beyond the mere labels of ethnicity and gender, to responsibility and supportive environments for work and play.

My Misspent Youth
My Misspent Youth

Author: Meghan Daum

Publisher: Macmillan + ORM

Published: 2014-12-23

Total Pages: 152

ISBN-13: 1250067693

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My Misspent Youth is an incisive collection that marked the start of a new millennium and became a cult classic, from the editor of Selfish, Shallow, and Self-Absorbed and the author of The Unspeakable An essayist in the tradition of Joan Didion, Meghan Daum is one of the most celebrated nonfiction writers of her generation, widely recognized for her fresh, provocative approach with which she unearths the hidden fault lines in the American landscape. From her well remembered New Yorker essays about the financial demands of big-city ambition and the ethereal, strangely old-fashioned allure of cyber-relationships to her dazzlingly hilarious riff in Harper's about musical passions that give way to middle-brow paraphernalia, Daum delves into the center of things while closely examining the detritus that spills out along the way. With precision and well-balanced irony, Daum implicates herself as readily as she does the targets that fascinate and horrify her.

Harlem on Our Minds
Harlem on Our Minds

Author: Valerie Kinloch

Publisher: Teachers College Press

Published: 2015-04-24

Total Pages: 225

ISBN-13: 0807771643

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Ginwright examines the role of community based organizations (CBOs) in the lives and development of black urban youth. The author argues that these organizations have the potential to provide a powerful influence in "how young people choose to participate in schooling and civic life." Ginwright bases his observations on a five-year study of a CBO he created in Oakland, California. The book shows readers that the lives of poor, black, urban youth are not quite as determined by locale and income as more deterministic readings have argued, and that there is real hope for positive change in these urban communities.

Creating Better Cities with Children and Youth
Creating Better Cities with Children and Youth

Author: David Driskell

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-07-28

Total Pages: 340

ISBN-13: 1134206453

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Creating Better Cities with Children and Youth is a practical manual on how to conceptualize, structure and facilitate the participation of young people in the community development process. It is an important tool for urban planners, municipal officials, community development staff, non-governmental organizations, educators, youth-serving agencies, youth advocates, and others who are involved in the community development process. It offers inspiration to all who believe in the value of community education and empowerment as a fundamental building block of a vibrant and resilient civil society, and those who feel concern for young people and the quality of their lives. The manual's core ideas and methods have been field-tested in a wide range of urban settings in both developing and industrialized cities through the work of the UNESCO Growing Up in Cities project. Case studies from project sites help to demonstrate the methods in action and show how they can be customized to meet local needs. They provide lessons and insights to help ensure a successful project, and highlight the universal applicability and value of young people's participation.

Identity and Inner-City Youth
Identity and Inner-City Youth

Author: Shirley Brice Heath

Publisher: Teachers College Press

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 423

ISBN-13: 0807776106

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What do effective youth organizations offer inner-city youngsters that schools do not? This book suggests that educators can learn much from inner-city social and youth organizations, which reach at-risk youngsters by developing a sense of family that many of them fail to get at home. Addressing a variety of issues—collaboration across organizations, the role of gangs in social control, the historical roles of ethnicity and gender in youth organizations—Heath and McLaughlin describe frames for identity that extend beyond ethnicity and gender.