Full Description
In a context of polycrisis and lack of opportunities for youth emancipation, it is imperative to understand the socio-economic conditions, life experiences, practices and social representation of marginalised youth. Peripheral Creativities examines the intersection of urban segregation, creative practices, and public policies in understanding peripheral youth.
Bringing together chapters from sociologists and other social science scholars across three continents, this edited collection addresses how creativity is mobilised by young people from marginalised neighbourhoods, as well as their influence on the (re)definition of the policies they are the target of. Associated with the PERICREATIVITY project based in Portugal, chapters bring together members of this project's team with researchers from other parts of the world, highlighting different contexts and perspectives on peripheral youth and the growing importance of their artistic practices in affirming positive identities and subverting stereotypes. The research emphasises how the power of these practices has been mobilised by the state as a resource for the governance of the urban margins with a view to youth participation, local development and social inclusion.
This text contributes to the production of knowledge about the creativity of young people from segregated territories, as well as the public policies aimed at them with a core focus on the logic of urban segregation, social marginalisation and structural inequality.
Contents
Foreword; Maggie O'Neill
Introduction; Otávio Raposo, Lígia Ferro, and Pedro Varela
Pericreativities
Chapter 1. Youth Citizenship, Artistic and Creative Practices and Technological Mediations; Ricardo Campos
Chapter 2. Peripheral Youth, Collective Creativity, and the Making of "Sounds of a Revolution"; Alix Didier Sarrouy
Chapter 3. Hip-Hop Culture and the Affirmation of Thug Identity: a Reading from Cape Verdean Gangsta Rap; Redy Wilson Lima
Chapter 4. Free in the World: Poetics, Speculation and Tremblement Thought in São Paulo's Rap; Gabriela Leal
Periurbans
Chapter 5. Counter-imaginaries of Globalisation in Latin-American Urban Margins; Apoena Mano and Talja Blokland
Chapter 6. The Social Value of Urban Art: Participation, Community and Territory in Latin America; Ricardo Klein
Chapter 7. A Light in the Neighbourhood: The Revitalising Potential of a Library in a Peripheral Area of Madrid; Rebeca Muñoz García and M. Victoria Gómez García
Chapter 8. Doubly Peripheral: Schooling Processes for Children and Young People Living in Amadora's Segregated Contexts; Sandra Mateus and Teresa Seabra
Chapter 9. Living Under the Same Stigma: From Living in "Shanties" to Living in the "Neighbourhood"; Rita Ávila Cachado
Peripolitics
Chapter 10. Youth and Arts Strategy: A Discourse Analysis of English Cultural Policy; Frances Howard
Chapter 11. Socioeducational Policies to Young People in Peripheral Areas: International Trends and the Portuguese Case; Pedro Abrantes
Chapter 12. Intersectionality and Cultural Policies: A Critical Reading of the Programme "Art and Urban Peripheries"; João Teixeira Lopes
Chapter 13. From the Cultural Collective to Social Work: Ambiguities Between Work and Activism; João Rodrigo V. Martins, Livia De Tommasi, and Sílvio Rogério dos Santos
Chapter 14. Insurgent Institutionalisation: Peripheral Youth Aesthetic Production in São Paulo; Alexandre Barbosa Pereira
