Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Cool Places explores the contrasting experiences of contemporary youth. The chapters draw on techno music and ecstasy in Germany, clubbing in London, global backpacking and gangs in Santa Cruz as well as expereinces at home, on the streets and seeking employment. The contributors use these examples to explore representation and resistance and geographical concepts of scale and place in young people's lives within social, cultural and feminist studies to focus upon the complexities of youth cultures and their spatial representations and interactions. Contributors: Shane Blackman, Sophie Bowlby, Myrna Margulies Breitbart, Deborah Chambers, Luke Deforges, Claire Dwyer, Keith Hetherington, Cindi Katz, Heinz-Herman Kruger, Marion Leonard, Sally Lloyd Evans, Tim Lucas, Sara McNamee,Ben Malbon, Doreen Massey, Robina Mohammad, David Oswell, David Parker, Birgit Richard, Susan Ruddick, Tracey Skelton, Fiona Smith, Kevin Stevenson, Gill Valentine and Paul Watt

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• Acknowledgements (p. x)
• 1 Cool Places (p. 1)
• 1 Representations (p. 33)
• 2 A Question of Belonging (p. 35)
• 3 Contested Identities (p. 50)
• 4 Rethinking British Chinese Identities (p. 66)
• 5 Rehabilitating the Images of Disabled Youths (p. 83)
• 6 Paper Planes (p. 101)
• 2 Matters of Scale (p. 119)
• 7 The Spatial Construction of Youth Cultures (p. 121)
• 8 Disintegrating Developments (p. 130)
• 9 Youth Gangs and Moral Panics in Santa Cruz, California (p. 145)
• 10 Ravers' Paradise? German Youth Cultures in the 1990s (p. 161)
• 11 'Checking Out the Planet' (p. 175)
• 3 Place: Geographies of Youth Cultures (p. 193)
• 12 The Home (p. 195)
• 13 The School: 'Poxy Cupid!' (p. 207)
• 14 The Workplace (p. 229)
• 15 The Street: 'It's a Bit Dodgy Around There' (p. 249)
• 16 The Club (p. 266)
• 4 Sites of Resistance (p. 287)
• 17 Between East and West (p. 289)
• 18 'Dana's Mystical Tunnel' (p. 305)
• 19 Vanloads of Uproarious Humanity (p. 328)
• 20 Modernism and Resistance (p. 343)
• Index (p. 369)