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Both theoretically informed and empirically rich, Youth Urban Worlds explores how urban cultures affect political action amongst youth.
Julie-Anne Boudreau holds a Doctorate in Urban Planning from the University of California in Los Angeles. She is Professor at the Institut national de la recherche scientifique in Montreal, where she held the Canada Research Chair in urbanity, insecurity, and political action from 2005-2015.
Joëlle Rondeau holds a master’s degree in Urban Studies from the National Institute of Scientific Research in Montreal. She is pursuing a doctoral degree in Indigenous Studies at Trent University, focusing on the urban food transformation and the resurgence of Indigenous foodways and governance systems.
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
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
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
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
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
Forms of Aesthetic Politics Influenced by Youthfulness and Contemporary Conditions of Urbanity
References
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