Exploring Ibero-American Youth Cultures in the 21st Century Creativity, Resistance and Transgression in the City

The authors collected here address youth street cultures in different cities from the Ibero-American world, bringing together contributions on Brazil, Argentina, Mexico, Chile, Portugal, Spain, and beyond. This overseas approach bridging the European and American contexts is justified by the range of (complex) social, cultural and economic relationships that have shaped this transnational geographical space since the beginning of the colonial period. The chapters collected here focus on three key concepts—creativity, resistance and transgression—that form a threefold dispositive to locally and globally confront, contest and even fight against the hegemonic, punitive and oppressive powers (re)produced by (white, male) dominant classes of the city. The book ensures a high diversity of geographical and social/cultural research contexts by focusing on one, two or multiple spatial contexts (the public space, the street, the city) and, at the same time, by emphasizing the different economic, social, cultural, symbolic specificities of youth cultures (including gender, sexuality and race) in their particular urban contexts.

Chapter 1. Ibero-American Youth Street Cultures in the 21st century: an introduction.- PART I – CITIZENSHIP AND ACTIVISM.- Chapter 2. The urban youth actions for the peace in a connected world.- Chapter 3. Global Marijuana March: youth, justice and inequality in the city of São Paulo.- Chapter 4. LGBTQIA+ youth, families and street protests in Brazil: facing and fighting.- Chapter 5. When the zombies go marching in. Performances in public space, forms of youth organization and mimetic pleasures in Córdoba (Argentina).- Chapter 6. The street as a youth recognition place to adult-centric expulsions.- PART II – LIMINALITIES AND TRANSGRESSIONS.- Chapter 7. Transnational gangs and their rituals of passage: inhabiting another world.- Chapter 8. Violence, urban art, and youth in the periphery of Medellín.- Chapter 9. Making-city through corporalities: youth agencies and resistances in São Paulo.- PART III – CONSUMPTION, SOCIABILITY ANDLUDIC SPACES.- Chapter 10. HEM 26: Youth representations and cultural productions against stigmatization.- Chapter 11. Between the street to the gallery. Trajectories of “pixadores” and graffiti writers in Lisbon and São Paulo.- Chapter 12. From El barrio to La Condesa and back again. Mexico City’s Bar staff as youth culture.- Chapter 13. Adolescents in Barcelona: exploring places, exploring nightlife.- PART IV – CREATIVITY AND CULTURAL PRODUCTION.- Chapter 14. ‘Not Just Holidays in the Sun’. Mapping, measuring and analysing DIY culture’s impact across cities in the Global South.- Chapter 15. K-Popping urban space. Or the uses of the public urban spaces in Santiago de Chile as a way of colonising, exploring and transgressing the city.- Chapter 16. Peripheral Urban Cultures in the City of Rio de Janeiro: Survival Arts.- Chapter 17. DJs from the Ghetto, Lisbon's “Batida Negra”: Music, Trajectories and Resistances.- Chapter 18. Epilogue.

Ricardo Campos is FCT Principal Researcher at the Interdisciplinary Centre of Social Sciences at NOVA University of Lisbon, Portugal. He is a co-editor of the Brazilian journal Cadernos de Arte e Antropologia (Journal of Art and Anthropology), co-coordinator of the Visual Culture Group of the Portuguese Association of Communication Studies and co-coordinator of the Luso-Brasilian Network for the Study of Urban Arts and Interventions (RAIU). His publications include Transglobal Sounds: Music, Identity and Migrant Descendants, (with João Sardinha, 2016) and Political Graffiti in Critical Times: The Aesthetics of Street Politics (with Andrea Pavoni and Yiannis Zaimakis, 2021).  He has published in such journals as International Journal of cutural studies, City & Community, Cultural trends, Tourist Studies, Journal of Youth Studies, Communications, European Journal of cultural studies, Young, Social Analysis, and top ranked Latin-American journals such as Tempo Social, Revista de Antropologia and Sociologias.

Jordi Nofre is FCT Principal Researcher of Urban Geography at the Interdisciplinary Centre of Social Sciences at NOVA University of Lisbon, Portugal. Nofre is editor of Exploring Nightlife: Space, Society & Governance (2018) and #GeneraciónIndignada: Topías y Utopías del Movimiento 15M (2013). Nofre has also published in international prestigious journals such as Urban Studies, City, Urban Research & Practice, Tourism Geographies, City & Community, Leisure Studies, Social & Cultural Geography, Area  and Cultural Anthropology. He is co-founder and current coordinator of LXNIGHTS – The Research Network onthe Urban Night.