<p>Both theoretically informed and empirically rich, <i>Youth Urban Worlds</i> explores how urban cultures affect political action amongst youth.</p> <ul> <li>Argues that urban cultures challenge the very meaning and contours of the political process</li> <li>Includes ethnographies, delving into the perspectives and knowledges of racialized youth, urban farmers, and “voluntary risk takers,” like dumpster divers, building climbers, and student protestors</li> <li>Theorizes that aesthetics are an increasingly crucial form of political action in the contemporary urban setting and explains the impact of aesthetics on the political</li> <li>Examines the centrality of fun, warmth, aesthetics, and embodiment to these youth’s experience of being in the world</li> <li>Explains how youth are able to practically and concretely impact the political process through the performance of risky and disruptive behavior</li> </ul>
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