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Young and homeless in Hollywood : mapping social identities / Susan M. Ruddick.

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Young and Homeless in Hollywood examines the social and spacial dynamics that contributed to the construction of a new social imaginary--""homeless youth""--In the United States during a period of accelerated modernization from the mid 1970s to the 1990s. Susan Ruddick draws from...

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Main Author: Ruddick, Susan M.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Routledge, 1996.
Subjects:
Homeless youth > California > Los Angeles.
Homeless youth > Services for > California > Los Angeles.
Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.) > Social conditions.
Homeless youth.
Homeless youth > Services for.
Social conditions.
California > Los Angeles.
California > Los Angeles > Hollywood.
Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Youth and Modernization; 2. Managing Meaning through the Production of Urban Space; 3. Heterotopias of the Homeless: Strategies and Tactics of Place-making in Los Angeles; 4. Back to the Future: Deinstitutionalization in a Recombinant System of Juvenile Care; 5. Punk Hollywood: Redrawing the Maps of Meaning; 6. Redefining Runaway and Homeless Youth; 7. Hollywood Rising; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography.

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