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 a range of theoretical frameworks and empirical treatments that deal with the relationship between placemaking and the politics of social identity.

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 a range of theoretical frameworks and empirical treatments that deal with the relationship between placemaking and the politics of social identity.

"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 a range of theoretical frameworks and empirical treatments that deal with the relationship between placemaking and the politics of social identity.

Being Young and Homeless is an intimate portrayal of life on the street from the perspective of young people in Toronto, Montreal, Halifax, and Guatemala City. Jeff Karabanow passionately portrays street youth experiences in various locales, highlighting reasons for entering street life, struggles to survive on the street, encounters with service providers, and for some, the street exiting process. This insightful book is relevant for students and practitioners of social work, sociology, social administration, and public policy.

Being Homeless offers valuable insights, both practical and theoretical, to human service providers as well as sociologists."--BOOK JACKET.

The Geographies of Young People traces the changing scientific and societal notions of what it is to be a young person, and argues that there is a need to rethink how we view childhood spaces, child development and the politics of growing up. This book brings coherency to the growing field of children's geographies by arguing that although most of it does not prescribe solutions to the moral assault against young people, it nonetheless offers appropriate insights into difference and diversity, and how young people are constructed. Other books in the series: Culture/Place/Health (forthcoming) Seduction of Place (forthcoming) Celtic Geographies (forthcoming) Timespace Bodies Mind and Body Spaces Children's Geographies Leisure/Tourism Geographies Thinking Space Geopolitical Traditions Embodied Geographies Animal Spaces, Beastly Places Closet Space Clubbing De-centering Sexualities Entanglements of Power.

HOMELESS IN HOLLYWOOD is the TRUE STORY about how one young man lived inside two major Hollywood Studios: Paramount Studios and Sunset Gower Studios for over THREE YEARS in pursuit of a show business dream.After getting kicked out of California State University, Long Beach where he was a film and journalism student just a semester shy of graduation, James A. Rice still wanted to chase his Hollywood dream. Facing eviction, selling everything he owned to survive and with everything he owned in a backpack, including two screenplays and a short film he had made, James left his world behind and embarked on a one-way trip to Hollywood. After being on the streets for a while, he haphazardly snuck into an open Stage door of Sunset Gower Studios, where they were filming the TV show Moesha. He would proceed to live inside Sunset Gower Studios, high atop the catwalks of STAGE 1 for a few months. During this intense time living in a cable cubbyhole, he got an audition from a casting agent on the lot and placed his screenplays on the desk of a major production company. After being discovered and chased off the lot by armed guards, still ever determined, James jumped the fence of Paramount Studios just down the street. He would live inside the historic movie lot for the next three years, incognito, mixing it up with millionaires, movie stars and walking magazine covers trying to make connections. This wild journey would become a juggling act, as he struggled to keep his many perceived "roles" in the air, especially for the security staff he'd come to know. He did this while trying to sell his screenplays and find work in the industry he loved, an experience that proved to be harder than he ever imagined and one that would change him forever. He survived by acting, in a world of actors, while eating from the craft service tables of various shows and sleeping in various places, mostly atop the catwalks of STAGE 30, where they film the TV show Soul Train. Quite simply, HOMELESS IN HOLLYWOOD is one man's journey to where his heart and soul had always wanted to take him and the world he discovered, he never imagined he'd see.This is his true story of chasing a dream, written by the man himself.