Fight, Flight, or Chill
Subtitle: Subcultures, Youth, And Rave into the Twenty-first Century
Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
Published: April 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780773530133
Subjects: Crime & criminology; Popular culture; Social Science; Sociology; Sociology - General; Ontario; Rave (Subculture); Rave culture; Recreation; Youth
Description: This books explores the extent to which raver youths' experiences are constrained or determined by individualistic, high-tech, mass-mediated Western culture in which alientated and unfulfilled youth are apparently more at-risk for escapist and thrill-seeking behaviours. Wilson considers how raver youth creatively and proactively subvert these constraints in novel and empowering ways--from political activism to symbolic and stylistic expressions of resistance to community-building efforts.