Urban Multiculture: Youth, Politics and Cultural Transformation in a Global City

by Malcolm James

Overview

This book explores the transformation of youth and urban culture in neoliberal Britain. Focusing on the reconfiguration of urban culture in relation to race, marginalization and youth politics, James examines the shifting formations of memory, territory, cultural performance and politics.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781349579877
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	02/11/2014
Edition description:	1st ed. 2015
Pages:	202
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

Malcolm James is a Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies at the University of Sussex, UK and Associate Director of the Sussex Centre for Cultural Studies, UK. He is co-editor of New Racial Landscapes and also works with local partners in outer East London on youth engagement and civil rights.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction
2. The Multicultural Past
3. Territory
4. Cultural Performances
5. Circuitries of Urban Culture
6. Negative Politics
7. The Multicultural Future
8. Conclusions and Political Endnotes

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

'In this important book, Malcolm James offers us a richly drawn account of contemporary youth identities and cultures in superdiverse urban spaces. Based on three years ethnography in East London, his provocative analysis places emergent youth expression and cultural politics in a broader context of historical marginality, social inequality and ethnic diversification. The book provides a compelling portrait of the fusions and fissures of contemporary urban multicultures and political agency amongst a group most often overlooked, both by the academy and wider society. James' work is a compassionate and powerful exploration of these hidden lives.'-Claire Alexander, University of Manchester, UK

Editorial Reviews

The book considers memory, territory and cultural practice, thinking through how the politics of class and race, alongside the lived experience of young people in the area, are being reconfigured by technology. … The book demonstrates the importance of ethnographic research, both to how we understand and do politics, and to how we understand the contemporary city. It will be of interested to any scholar of urban studies, as well as those working on youth, race and class.” (Dave O’Brien, New Books network, newbooksnetwork.com, May, 2016)

From the Publisher