Routledge Handbook Of Street Culture (routledge International Handbooks)

Discussions of street culture exist in a variety of academic disciplines, yet a handbook that brings together the diversity of scholarship on this subject has yet to be produced. The __Routledge Handbook of Street Culture__ integrates and reviews current scholarship regarding the history, types, and contexts of the concept of street culture. It is comprehensive and international in its treatment of the subject of street culture. Street culture includes many subtypes, situations, locations, and participants, and these are explored in the various chapters included in this book. Street culture varies based on numerous factors including capitalism, market societies, policing, ethnicity, and race but also advances in technology. The book is divided into four major sections: Actors and street culture, Activities connected to street culture, The centrality of crime to street culture, and Representations of street culture. Contributors are well respected and recognized international scholars in their fields. They draw upon contemporary scholarship produced in the social sciences, arts, and humanities in order to communicate their understanding of street culture. The book provides a comprehensive and accessible approach to the subject of street culture through the lens of an inter- and/or multidisciplinary perspective. It is also intersectional in its approach and consideration of the subject and phenomenon of street culture. Discussions of street culture exist in a variety of academic disciplines, yet a handbook that brings together the diversity of scholarship on this subject has yet to be produced. The Routledge Handbook of Street Culture integrates and reviews current scholarship regarding the history, types, and contexts of the concept of street culture. It is comprehensive and international in its treatment of the subject of street culture. Street culture includes many subtypes, situations, locations, and participants, and these are explored in the various chapters included in this book. Street culture varies based on numerous factors including capitalism, market societies, policing, ethnicity, and race but also advances in technology. The book is divided into four major sections: Actors and street culture, Activities connected to street culture, The centrality of crime to street culture, and Representations of street culture. Contributors are well respected and recognized international scholars in their fields. They draw upon contemporary scholarship produced in the social sciences, arts, and humanities in order to communicate their understanding of street culture. The book provides a comprehensive and accessible approach to the subject of street culture through the lens of an inter- and/or multidisciplinary perspective. It is also intersectional in its approach and consideration of the subject and phenomenon of street culture. Cover 1 Half Title 4 Series 5 Title 6 Copyright 7 Dedication 8 Contents 10 List of figures 14 List of tables 16 List of contributors 17 Acknowledgments 26 Editor’s foreword 27 Foreword: From the Chicago School to the Routledge Handbook of Street Culture 32 Introduction: disentangling street culture 38 Part I Actors and street culture 46 1 A street culture of homelessness 50 2 Currando las margenes: Roma Street culture 62 3 Street performers and street culture 75 4 How municipal police interact with street culture 85 5 Youth street cultures: between online and offline circuits 96 Part II Activities connected to street culture 108 6 Graffiti, crime, and street culture 114 7 From graffiti to gallery: the street art phenomenon 127 8 Taxi driving and street culture: acquiring and utilizing street knowledge 141 9 Skateboarding and street culture 151 10 Parkour and street culture: conviviality, law and the negotiation of urban space 163 11 Mobilising street culture: understanding the implications of the shift from lifestyle bike messengers to gig economy workers 174 12 Street vending and everyday life in an authentic 21st century 184 13 Private uses make public spaces: street vending in Ho Chi Minh City and Rome 196 14 Street scavengers and street culture 207 15 Street life and masculinities 220 16 Gentrification’s impact on street life 231 Part III The centrality of crime to street culture 242 17 Street culture and street crime: the enduring and unequivocal link 246 18 The code of the street: causes and consequences 256 19 A cross-cultural perspective of the code of the street 266 20 Street culture and street gangs 275 21 Suburbia’s delinquent street cultures 286 22 Writing “street culture” should be a crime 296 Part IV Representations of street culture 306 23 The relationship between popular culture and street culture: a case study of Baltimore 310 24 Portrayals of street culture in Hollywood films 322 25 On the street: photography and the city 332 26 Street styles serenade: urban street styles emerging from music scenes 347 27 Reinventing luxury in the streets: an assemblage view of the relationship between luxury brands and street culture 360 28 Language and street culture in the big city 372 29 Street food and placemaking: a cultural review of urban practices 383 30 Digital streets, internet banging, and cybercrimes: street culture in a digitized world 394 Glossary 405 Chronology of the history of street culture 409 Index 411