Young People, Class and Place (Hardcover)

1. Young people, class and place  Tracy Shildrick, Shane Blackman and Robert MacDonald  2. Constructions of the working-class ‘Other’ among urban, white, middle-class youth: ‘chavs’, subculture and the valuing of education  Sumi Hollingworth and Katya Williams  3. Who needs enemies with friends like these? The importance of place for young people living in known gang areas  Robert Ralphs, Juanjo Medina and Judith Aldridge  4. ‘Nightscapes and leisure spaces’: an ethnographic study of young people’s use of free space  Cara Robinson  5. Grafting, going to college and working on road: youth transitions and cultures in an East London neighbourhood  Anthony Gunter and Paul Watt  6. From ‘inheritance’ to individualization: disembedding working-class youth transitions in post-Soviet Russia  Charlie Walker  7. Steps and stages: rethinking transitions in youth and place  Tom Hall, Amanda Coffey and Brett Lashua  8. (Re)constituting the past, (re)branding the present and (re)imagining the future: women’s spatial negotiation of gender and class  Yvette Taylor and Michelle Addison  9. New class divisions in the new market economies: evidence from the careers of young adults in post-Soviet Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia  Ken Roberts and Gary Pollock