Exploring Urban Youth Culture Outside of the Gang Paradigm: Critical Questions of Youth, Gender and Race On-Road 9781529225600

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Front Cover
Exploring Urban Youth Culture Outside of the Gang Paradigm: Critical Questions of Youth, Gender and Race On-Road
Copyright information
Table of Contents
Notes on Contributors
Foreword
Preface
1 Introduction: Youth and On-Road – Making Gender and Race Matter
Roads of history, paths of patriarchy: the endless excess of youth terminated?
Young women’s lives on-road
Outline of the collection
References
2 Black, British Young Women On-Road: Intersections of Gender, Race and Youth in British Interwar Youth Penal Reform
Introduction
Methodology
Part I
The contemporary Black, British urban girl on-road: the contentious preconditions shaping girls’ individual and social development
Black, British young women on-road: intersections of a historic gendered, racial marginality
Part II
On-road: forged in modernity’s fury of racialised, gendered exclusion
On-road: race and gender in interwar British youth penal reform
Conclusion
References
3 Tainted Love: Intimate Relationships and Gendered Violence On-Road
Introduction
Road and racial ambiguity
Road life, patriarchy and gender
Theorising love
Methodology
Fixity, desire and heterosexist eroticism
Implosion and gendered violence
Conclusion
References
4 (The) Trouble with Friends: Narrative Stories of Friendship and Violence On-Road
Introduction
What is friendship?
Friendships of virtue
Friendships of pleasure and utility
Friendship on-road
What is on-road and on-road life?
Researching friendship on-road
Participants, data collection and analysis
On-road and the expression of friendship
“There’s mates, good mates and best mates”: friends and associates
“I would jump in no questions asked!”: loyalty on-road
“There’s no love, it was all fake. It was all lies”
Conclusion
Notes
References
5 The Sexual Politics of Masculinity and Vulnerability On-Road: Gender, Race and Male Victimisation
Introduction
Sexual prowess and gang stereotypes
Intersectional blind spots
Sexual victimisation as anti-masculine
Methods
On-road as a space, place and mentality
On-road as a heteronormative space
Child sexual abuse
The blind-spot of boys’ sexual exploitation
Heritage of sexual violence
Tough men, hidden wounds: gender trauma
References
6 The Road, in Court: How UK Drill Music Became a Criminal Offence
Introduction
What is drill music?
Evidence of things not known
The artistic nature of drill music, denied
Dispensing justice through procedural injustice
Rap experts needed, but anyone will do
Criminalising road culture, one rhyme at a time
References
7 On-Road Inside: Music as a Site of Carceral Convergence
Introduction
Entrapment
Music and the carceral
Rap and urban geography in prison
Authenticity
Conclusion
Notes
References
8 Jeta e Rrugës: Translocal On-Road Hustle, Within and from Albania
Introduction
Albanian rap and gangs: myth construction and moral panic
Adultification and Albanian youth migration
Methodology: music and connection
Findings
Neighbourhood solidarity and marginalisation experience
Nacut (‘the boys’): gendered solidarity
Code of the street
Kam marrë rrugët (‘I took to the streets’)
Conclusion
Note
References
9 ‘He’s shown me the road’: Role Model and Roadman
Introduction
Role models and roadmen: policy and positioning
Role models
Roadmen
Psychosocial and positioning theory
Germaine
Analysis
Conclusion
References
10 Diary of an On-Road Criminologist: An Auto-Ethnographic Reflection
Provocation
On-road researcher
On-road criminologists versus carwash sociologists
Who am I?
Whose story is it?
Blackness
Case example: on-road with ‘T’
Discussions: breaking the fourth wall
Conclusion
References
11 Conclusions, Compromises and Continuing Conversations
Jade’s reflections: feminist lens on the soundtracks to subjectivity, relationality, love and community
Tara’s reflections
Rod’s reflections: roads taken, lessons learned, no detour ahead
Note
References
Index