{"product_id":"youth-urban-worlds-isbn-9781119582229","title":"Youth Urban Worlds","description":"\u003cp\u003eBoth theoretically informed and empirically rich, \u003ci\u003eYouth Urban Worlds\u003c\/i\u003e explores how urban cultures affect political action amongst youth.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eArgues that urban cultures challenge the very meaning and contours of the political process\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eIncludes ethnographies, delving into the perspectives and knowledges of racialized youth, urban farmers, and “voluntary risk takers,” like dumpster divers, building climbers, and student protestors\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eTheorizes that aesthetics are an increasingly crucial form of political action in the contemporary urban setting and explains the impact of aesthetics on the political\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eExamines the centrality of fun, warmth, aesthetics, and embodiment to these youth’s experience of being in the world\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eExplains how youth are able to practically and concretely impact the political process through the performance of risky and disruptive behavior\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003eList of Figures vii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSeries Editors’ Preface x\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePreface xi\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIntroduction: Voices From Montreal 2\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSpace–Time–Affect: The Urban Logic of Political Action 5\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eActing Aesthetically: Political Gestures, Political Acts, and Political Action 10\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eYouth Urban Worlds 21\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Global Urban Political Moment of the 2010s: Youthfulness in Action 26\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMontreal in a World of Cities 29\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA Methodological Note 31\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Organization of the Book 34\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes 36\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e1 Montreal and the Urban Moment 38\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMontreal’s Politico‐Sensuous Feel 41\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMontreal’s Place in the Global Urban Cultures of the 1960s and 1970s 49\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChanging Relations to Time 52\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChanging Relations to Space 54\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusion 61\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes 64\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e2 The Urban Political World of Racialized Youth: Moving Through and Being Moved By Saint‐Michel and Little Burgundy 69\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMoving Through Saint‐Michel and Little Burgundy with an Epistemology of Blackness 75\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBeing Moved: Representations and Affective Aesthetic Relations 88\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRacialization: Disembodied Profiling Entangled With Embodied Racist Encounters 94\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusion 98\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes 101\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e3 The Urban Political World of Student Strikers 107\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBecoming a Striker: Pregnant Moments ‘Breaking the Real’ 110\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWalking the City: Space During and After the Strike 117\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Political Effects of Seduction and Provocation 123\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusion 133\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes 135\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e4 The Urban Political World of Urban Farmers: ‘It’s Not Just Growing Food, It’s a Lot More Than That’ 143\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEmbodied Experiences of the Spatialities and Circulation of Food Commodities in the City 150\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Urban Logic of Action of Urban Agriculture Practices 157\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSeduction and Attraction in the Garden 161\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusion 164\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes 165\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e5 The Urban Political World of ‘Risk‐Takers’: Provocative Choreographic Power 169\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Risk‐Management Context 171\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eUrban Dancers and Diviners: Choreographic Power as Political Action 172\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eVoluntary Risk‐Takers? Fear and Youth Politics 177\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCollective Edgework: Distributed Agency Through Provocation and Seduction 186\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusion 192\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes 193\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eConclusion 198\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eForms of Aesthetic Politics Influenced by Youthfulness and Contemporary Conditions of Urbanity 201\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMontreal in a World of Cities 206\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNote 207\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReferences 208\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 220\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJulie-Anne Boudreau\u003c\/b\u003e holds a Doctorate in Urban Planning from the University of California in Los Angeles. She is Professor at the Institut national de la recherche scientifique in Montreal, where she held the Canada Research Chair in urbanity, insecurity, and political action from 2005-2015. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJoëlle Rondeau\u003c\/b\u003e holds a master’s degree in Urban Studies from the National Institute of Scientific Research in Montreal. She is pursuing a doctoral degree in Indigenous Studies at Trent University, focusing on the urban food transformation and the resurgence of Indigenous foodways and governance systems. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eYouth Urban Worlds: Aesthetic Political Action in Montreal\u003c\/i\u003e grapples with the interaction between urban environments and cultures and the political process. Authors Boudreau and Rondeau argue persuasively that urban cultures challenge the very meaning and contours of the political process. With ethnographies delving into the perspectives and knowledges of racialized youth, urban farmers, and “voluntary risk takers,” like dumpster divers, building climbers, and student protestors, \u003ci\u003eYouth Urban Worlds \u003c\/i\u003etheorizes aesthetics as an increasingly crucial form of political action in the contemporary urban setting. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis interdisciplinary work, weaving together aspects of philosophy, critical geography, political sociology, urban anthropology, urban studies, and cultural studies, examines the centrality of fun, warmth, aesthetics, and embodiment to these youth’s experiences of being in the world. Aesthetics serves as the predominant lens through which the lived reality of the subjects of the book is understood. It also explains how youth are able to practically and concretely impact the political process through the performance of risky and disruptive behavior. Moving from a contemporary history of urban Montreal from 1960, to an ethnographic description of the realities of urban youth in that city today, \u003ci\u003eYouth Urban Worlds\u003c\/i\u003e describes and explains the impact of aesthetics on the political. \u003c\/p\u003e ‘This ethnographically immersive book draws you into a world of slam poets and urban farmers, skateboarders and graffiti artists, attending to the embodied forces of attraction that animate youth political action. Examining charged urban experiences such as student protests and police encounters, Boudreau and Rondeau show the transformative power of youth aesthetics, revealing the hidden traditions of experience they cultivate.’\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAsher Ghertner, Rutgers University, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e‘This book’s rich, textured text captures Montreal urban inhabitants consciously theorizing the space they live and experience. That the main interlocutors are young(er) folks, in dialogue with scholars, but as equals - at least as equal as is possible under the circumstances - makes for a remarkable expression of urban agency and transgression in the face of repression, incertitude, and the absence of absolutes.’\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eDavid Austin, author of  \u003ci\u003eDread Poetry and Freedom: Linton Kwesi Johnson and the Unfinished Revolution\u003c\/i\u003e (2018) and \u003ci\u003eFear of a Black Nation: Race, Sex and Security in Sixties Montreal\u003c\/i\u003e, winner of 2014 Casa de las Americas Prize\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Wiley","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47990516318437,"sku":"NP9781119582229","price":94.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781119582229.jpg?v=1761788143","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/youth-urban-worlds-isbn-9781119582229","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}