Both theoretically informed and empirically rich, Youth Urban Worlds explores how urban cultures affect political action amongst youth.
- Argues that urban cultures challenge the very meaning and contours of the political process
- Includes ethnographies, delving into the perspectives and knowledges of racialized youth, urban farmers, and “voluntary risk takers,” like dumpster divers, building climbers, and student protestors
- Theorizes that aesthetics are an increasingly crucial form of political action in the contemporary urban setting and explains the impact of aesthetics on the political
- Examines the centrality of fun, warmth, aesthetics, and embodiment to these youth’s experience of being in the world
- Explains how youth are able to practically and concretely impact the political process through the performance of risky and disruptive behavior
Series Editors’ Preface
Preface
Introduction Voices From Montreal
Space–Time–Affect: The Urban Logic of Political Action
Acting Aesthetically: Political Gestures, Political Acts, and Political Action
Youth Urban Worlds
The Global Urban Political Moment of the 2010s: Youthfulness in Action
Montreal in a World of Cities
A Methodological Note
The Organization of the Book
Notes
1 Montreal and the Urban Moment
Montreal’s Politico-Sensuous Feel
Montreal’s Place in the Global Urban Cultures of the 1960s and 1970s
Changing Relations to Time
Changing Relations to Space
Conclusion
Notes
2 The Urban Political World of Racialized Youth: Moving Through and Being Moved By Saint-Michel and Little Burgundy
Moving Through Saint-Michel and Little Burgundy with an Epistemology of Blackness
Being Moved: Representations and Affective Aesthetic Relations
Racialization: Disembodied Profiling Entangled With Embodied Racist Encounters
Conclusion
Notes
3 The Urban Political World of Student Strikers
Becoming a Striker: Pregnant Moments ‘Breaking the Real’
Walking the City: Space During and After the Strike
The Political Effects of Seduction and Provocation
Conclusion
Notes
4 Cultivating the City: ‘It’s Not Just Growing Food, It’s a Lot More Than That’
Embodied Experiences of the Spatialities and Circulation of Food Commodities in the City
The Urban Logic of Action of Urban Agriculture Practices
Seduction and Attraction in the Garden
Conclusion
Notes
5 The Urban Political World of ‘Risk-Takers’: Provocative Choreographic Power
The Risk-Management Context
Urban Dancers and Diviners: Choreographic Power as Political Action
Voluntary Risk-Takers? Fear and Youth Politics
Collective Edgework: Distributed Agency Through Provocation and Seduction
Conclusion
Notes
Conclusion
Forms of Aesthetic Politics Influenced by Youthfulness and Contemporary Conditions of Urbanity
Montreal in a World of Cities
References
Joelle Rondeau
