Youth Urban Worlds

Julie-Anne Boudreau holds a Doctorate in Urban Planning from the University of California in Los Angeles. She is Professor at the Institut national de la recherche scientifique in Montreal, where she held the Canada Research Chair in urbanity, insecurity, and political action from 2005-2015.   Joëlle Rondeau holds a master’s degree in Urban Studies from the National Institute of Scientific Research in Montreal. She is pursuing a doctoral degree in Indigenous Studies at Trent University, focusing on the urban food transformation and the resurgence of Indigenous foodways and governance systems.

• List of Figures viiSeries Editors’ Preface xPreface xiIntroduction: Voices From Montreal 2Space–Time–Affect: The Urban Logic of Political Action 5Acting Aesthetically: Political Gestures, Political Acts, and Political Action 10Youth Urban Worlds 21The Global Urban Political Moment of the 2010s: Youthfulness in Action 26Montreal in a World of Cities 29A Methodological Note 31The Organization of the Book 34Notes 361 Montreal and the Urban Moment 38Montreal’s Politico‐Sensuous Feel 41Montreal’s Place in the Global Urban Cultures of the 1960s and 1970s 49Changing Relations to Time 52Changing Relations to Space 54Conclusion 61Notes 642 The Urban Political World of Racialized Youth: Moving Through and Being Moved By Saint‐Michel and Little Burgundy 69Moving Through Saint‐Michel and Little Burgundy with an Epistemology of Blackness 75Being Moved: Representations and Affective Aesthetic Relations 88Racialization: Disembodied Profiling Entangled With Embodied Racist Encounters 94Conclusion 98Notes 1013 The Urban Political World of Student Strikers 107Becoming a Striker: Pregnant Moments ‘Breaking the Real’ 110Walking the City: Space During and After the Strike 117The Political Effects of Seduction and Provocation 123Conclusion 133Notes 1354 The Urban Political World of Urban Farmers: ‘It’s Not Just Growing Food, It’s a Lot More Than That’ 143Embodied Experiences of the Spatialities and Circulation of Food Commodities in the City 150The Urban Logic of Action of Urban Agriculture Practices 157Seduction and Attraction in the Garden 161Conclusion 164Notes 1655 The Urban Political World of ‘Risk‐Takers’: Provocative Choreographic Power 169The Risk‐Management Context 171Urban Dancers and Diviners: Choreographic Power as Political Action 172Voluntary Risk‐Takers? Fear and Youth Politics 177Collective Edgework: Distributed Agency Through Provocation and Seduction 186Conclusion 192Notes 193Conclusion 198Forms of Aesthetic Politics Influenced by Youthfulness and Contemporary Conditions of Urbanity 201Montreal in a World of Cities 206Note 207References 208Index 220