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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 21 May 2015
- ISBN 9780198728610
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages304 pages
- Size 222x147x24 mm
- Weight 490 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
Drawing on four years of varied ethnographic fieldwork in Langview, a deindustrialised working-class community in Glasgow, this book tells a unique and powerful story of young people, gang identity, and social change, challenging perceptions of gangs as a novel, universal, or pathological phenomenon.
MoreLong description:
As the youth gang phenomenon becomes an important and sensitive public issue, communities from Los Angeles to Rio, Cape Town to London are facing the reality of what such violent groups mean for their children and young people. Complex dangers and instabilities, as well as high levels of public fear and anger, fuel an amplification of anxious public and political rhetoric in relation to gangs, in which the stereotype of the American street-gang - a ruthless, hierarchical, street-based criminal organisation capable of corrupting youth and fracturing communities - looms large.
Set against this backdrop, Urban Legends: Gang Identity in the Post-Industrial City tells a unique and powerful story of young people, gang identity, and social change in post-industrial Glasgow, challenging the perceptions of gangs as a novel, universal, or pathological phenomenon. Though territorial gangs have been reported in Glasgow for over a century, with striking continuities over this time, there are similarities with street-based groups elsewhere. Using this similarity as the foundation, the book goes on to argue that Glaswegian gangs have a specific historical trajectory that is particular to the city. Drawing on four years of varied ethnographic fieldwork in Langview, a deindustrialised working-class community, the book spotlights the everyday experiences and understandings of gangs for young people growing up in the area, reasoning that - for some - gang identification represents a root of identity and a route to masculinity, in a post-industrial city that has little space for them.
Urban Legends...can compete with all the classic works. Fraser's book is a fresh start for European street ethnography. We can only hope that more will follow. I recommend it to those interested in Bourdieu, Glasgow, gangs, youth delinquency, post-industrialism, or just anyone interested in a reading a really good ethnography.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Shifting Definitions
A Global Sociological Imagination
City as Lens
Best Laid Schemes
Street Habitus
Redundant Hardmen
Learning to Leisure
Generations of Gangs
Conclusion
