ABSTRACT
Drawing theoretically from cultural geography (e.g., Massey, 1999) and from the sociology of youth culture, this chapter examines the relationship between social space and social exclusion as expressed by economically disadvantaged male and female youth (aged 14-16) in one inner city urban concentration in Ontario, Canada. The experiences which such urban youth themselves offer about this relationship are worthy of investigation because they help us to grasp an important dimension of the ways in which neoliberal school cultures are currently impacting on the class formation of youth subcultural identities in the modern urban Canadian city.
