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Theoretical "breaks" and youth cultural studies : post-industrial moments, conceptual dilemmas, and urban scales of spatial change -- Spatial landscapes of ethnographic inquiry phenomenology, moral entrepeneurship, and the investigation of cultural meaning -- Lost youth and post-industrial urban landscapes : researching the interface of youth imaginaries, and urbanization -- Warehousing "ginos", "thugs" and "gangstas" in urban Canadian schools : gender rivalries and subcultural defenses in late modernity -- Urban imaginaries and geographies of emotion : ambivalence, anxiety, and class fantasies of home -- Impossible citizens in the global metropolis : race, landscapes of power, and the new "emotional geographies" of the city -- Legitimacy, risk, and belonging in the global city : neo-liberalism, individualization, and the language of citizenship.

This lively, introductory text provides nurses with the foundations of a sociological understanding of health issues, explaining the key theories and debates with humour and imagination in a way that will encourage an inquisitive and reflective approach

America is the most punitive nation in the world, incarcerating more than 2.3 million people—or one in 136 of its residents. Against the backdrop of this unprecedented mass imprisonment, punishment permeates everyday life, carrying with it complex cultural meanings. In The Culture of Punishment, Michelle Brown goes beyond prison gates and into the routine and popular engagements of everyday life, showing that those of us most distanced from the practice of punishment tend to be particularly harsh in our judgments.The Culture of Punishment takes readers on a tour of the sites where culture and punishment meet—television shows, movies, prison tourism, and post 9/11 new war prisons—demonstrating that because incarceration affects people along distinct race and class lines, it is only a privileged group of citizens who are removed from the experience of incarceration. These penal spectators, who often sanction the infliction of pain from a distance, risk overlooking the reasons for democratic oversight of the project of punishment and, more broadly, justifications for the prohibition of pain