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.
Autorentext
Authored by Ruddick, Susan M.
Zusammenfassung
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.
Inhalt
Introduction; Chapter 1 Youth and Modernization; Chapter 2 Managing Meaning Through the Production of Urban Space; Chapter 3 Heterotopias of the Homeless: Strategies and Tactics of Place-Making in Los Angeles; Chapter 4 Back to the Future: Deinstitutionalization in a Recombinant System of Juvenile Care; Chapter 5 Punk Hollywood: Redrawing the Maps of Meaning; Chapter 6 Redefining Runaway and Homeless Youth; Chapter 7 Hollywood Rising; Chapter 8 Conclusion;