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SUMMARY:EED Book Launch - Dr Jo-Anne Dillabough &amp\; Dr Phil Gardner\, U
 niversity of Cambridge Faculty of Education
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CONTACT:Susannah Lacon
DESCRIPTION:Lost Youth in the Global City - Jo-Anne Dillabough\n\nWhat doe
 s it mean to be young\, and to live in the post 9/11 urban inner city\, wh
 ere intimations of incipient terrorism\, both considered and casual\, have
  become the characteristic channel for everyday racism and ethnic hysteria
 ?  What does it mean to be young\, to be poor and to be subject to constan
 t surveillance both from the formal agencies of the state and from the inf
 ormal challenge of competing youth groups?  What is life like for the ‘l
 ost youth’ of late modernity\, no longer at the centre of city life\, bu
 t pushed instead to new and insecure margins of the urban inner city? How 
 are changing patterns of migration and work\, along with shifting gender r
 oles and expectations\, impacting upon marginalized youth in the radically
  transformed urban city of the 21st century?  Lost Youth in the Global Cit
 y seeks to answer these questions through sustained empirical exploration 
 of the ways in which groups of young people\, marked by poverty and ethnic
  and religious diversity\, have sought to navigate a new urban terrain and
  in so doing\, have created quite new ways of seeing themselves in two Can
 adian urban concentrations: Vancouver\, BC\, and Toronto\, Ontario. The Ga
 ngstas\, Thugs\, Nammers\, Hardcare Asians\, Ginas and Ginos who we meet t
 hroughout the course of this account are no strangers to surveillance\, mo
 nitoring and exclusion. Nor are they unrehearsed in complex strategies of 
 self-protection as they encounter new forms of racism\, peer rivalry\, shi
 fting urban space\, and radically changed demographies in the post-welfare
  urban city.  Through the application of conceptual tools of demonstrated 
 power to empirical data of exceptional richness\, Lost Youth in the Global
  City systematically examines the Canadian experience as a model of the af
 fluent ‘West’\, as an exemplar of the contemporary global contexts wit
 hin which young people’s lives are shaped today. Its primary contributio
 n\, for both academic and general readerships\, lies in its capacity to es
 tablish productive new ways to understand new youth subcultural communitie
 s in a moment of accelerating globalization and urban malaise.\n\n‘Lost 
 Youth is absolutely leading edge. It applies classic approaches and concep
 ts in an original way to the contemporary frameworks of moral panic about 
 disaffected urban youth in the context of globalization’ Robert Lingard\
 , Professor\, School of Education\, University of Queensland.\n\n‘Based 
 on extensive fieldwork utilizing fresh methodological approaches\, solid t
 heoretical approaches and in depth ethnographic information\, Lost Youth w
 ill make a major contribution to understanding contemporary youths’s liv
 es’\, Nancy Lesko\, Professor\, Teacher’s College\, Columbia Universit
 y\n\n\nHermeneutics\, History and Memory - Philip Gardner\n\nHistory is th
 e true record of an absent past.  The trust between historians and their r
 eaders has always been founded upon this traditional claim.  In a postmode
 rn world\, that claim and that trust have both been fundamentally challeng
 ed\, usually drawing either angry or apologetic responses from historians.
   But there is another possible response.  We might instead see the scepti
 cal challenge as an opportunity to reflect more carefully upon history’s
  key processes and practices\, rather than taking them for granted.  In th
 is respect\, we might particularly turn to a consideration of methodologic
 al resources – in the form of hermeneutics and memory – which are trul
 y history’s own\, but from which it has allowed itself to become estrang
 ed.  Such a consideration\, which is the objective of Hermeneutics\, Histo
 ry and Memory\, may fittingly take the idea of a detour as its guiding met
 aphor.   There are always two routes to any goal\;  we may choose to take 
 a short\, direct route\, or we may elect to travel by a longer\, in direct
  path.  Inspired by the philosophy of Paul Ricoeur\, Hermeneutics\, Histor
 y and Memory chooses the latter course\, in the belief that\, for all its 
 difficulties and frustrations\, the long route may in the end help us to d
 o our history better.\n\nPhil Gardner is a Senior Lecturer in the Faculty 
 of Education\, a Fellow of St Edmund’s College and a Fellow of the Royal
  Historical Society  \n\n
LOCATION:Faculty of Education\, 184 Hills Road\, Cambridge\, CB2 8PQ in Ro
 om GS1
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