Full Description
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.
Contents
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;