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.
Author(s): Jeffrey Ian Ross; Peter K. Manning
Series: Routledge International Handbooks
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2020
Cover
Half Title
Series
Title
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
List of figures
List of tables
List of contributors
Acknowledgments
Editor’s foreword
Foreword: From the Chicago School to the Routledge Handbook of Street Culture
Introduction: disentangling street culture
Part I Actors and street culture
1 A street culture of homelessness
2 Currando las margenes: Roma Street culture
3 Street performers and street culture
4 How municipal police interact with street culture
5 Youth street cultures: between online and offline circuits
Part II Activities connected to street culture
6 Graffiti, crime, and street culture
7 From graffiti to gallery: the street art phenomenon
8 Taxi driving and street culture: acquiring and utilizing street knowledge
9 Skateboarding and street culture
10 Parkour and street culture: conviviality, law and the negotiation of urban space
11 Mobilising street culture: understanding the implications of the shift from lifestyle bike messengers to gig economy workers
12 Street vending and everyday life in an authentic 21st century
13 Private uses make public spaces: street vending in Ho Chi Minh City and Rome
14 Street scavengers and street culture
15 Street life and masculinities
16 Gentrification’s impact on street life
Part III The centrality of crime to street culture
17 Street culture and street crime: the enduring and unequivocal link
18 The code of the street: causes and consequences
19 A cross-cultural perspective of the code of the street
20 Street culture and street gangs
21 Suburbia’s delinquent street cultures
22 Writing “street culture” should be a crime
Part IV Representations of street culture
23 The relationship between popular culture and street culture: a case study of Baltimore
24 Portrayals of street culture in Hollywood films
25 On the street: photography and the city
26 Street styles serenade: urban street styles emerging from music scenes
27 Reinventing luxury in the streets: an assemblage view of the relationship between luxury brands and street culture
28 Language and street culture in the big city
29 Street food and placemaking: a cultural review of urban practices
30 Digital streets, internet banging, and cybercrimes: street culture in a digitized world
Glossary
Chronology of the history of street culture
Index
