Young People, Place and Identity

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Young People, Place and Identity offers a series of rich insights into young people's everyday lives. What places do young people engage with on a daily basis? How do they use these places? How do their identities influence these contexts? By working through common-sense understandings of young people's behaviours and the places they occupy, the author seeks to answer these and other questions. In doing so the book challenges and re-shapes understandings of young people's relationships with different places and identities. The textbook is one of the first books to map out the scales, themes and sites engaged with by young people on a daily basis as they construct their multiple identities. The scales explored here include the body, neighbourhood and community, mobilities and transitions and urban-rural settings and how these all shape and are shaped by young people's identities. Each chapter explores how social identities (such as race, gender, sexuality, class, disability and religion) are constructed within particular contexts and influenced by multiple processes of inclusion and exclusion. These discussions are supported by details of the research methods and ethical issues involved in researching young people's lives. Drawing upon research from a range of contexts, including Europe, North America and Australasia, this book demonstrates the complex ways in which young people creatively shape, contest and resist their engagements with different places and identities. The range of issues, topics and case studies explored include: ethical and methodological issues in youth research; youth subcultures; experiences of home; territorialism; youth and crime; political engagement and participation; responses to global issues; engagements with different institutional contexts; negotiating public space; the transition to adulthood; drinking cultures. The author explores these issues through blending together original empirical research, theory and policy. Individual chapters are supported by key themes, project ideas and suggested further reading. Details of key authors, journals and research centres and organisations are also included at the end of the book. This textbook will be pertinent for undergraduate and postgraduate students and academic researchers interested in better understanding the relationships between young people, places and identities. Front Cover Young People, Place and Identity Copyright Page Contents List of illustrations List of tables List of boxes Acknowledgements 1. Introduction Young People Identities Place Frameworks for studying young people, place and identity Placing young people How to use this book Part I: Researching young people: methods and ethics 2. Research with young people Young people’s place in research Research methods Data analysis and dissemination 3. Ethical and Methodological Considerations Obtaining informed consent Confidentiality and anonymity Incentivising participation Positionalities and power relations Part II: Scales 4. The body Youthful bodies Marginalised bodies Subcultural bodies Excessive bodies 5. Home Youthful homespaces Experiencing home Without home Leaving home Making home 6. Neighbourhood and community Neighbourhoods and communities of youth Neighbourhoods and territorialism Neighbourhoods and poverty Communities and faith Communities and crime 7. Nation Youthful nations Youthful national identities National political engagement Beyond nation 8. Global Global youth Global events Global lives Global inequalities Part III: Themes and sites 9. Institutions Young people’s institutions Negotiating school Managing university Residential care 10. Public space and the street Youthful publics Hanging out Imposing curfews Skateboarding Making public space 11. Migrations, mobilities and transitions Youthful migration, mobilities and transitions Fleeing persecution The transition to adulthood The gap year 12. Urban−rural Young urban−rural places Leisure places Drinking Places Working places 13. Conclusions Young people, place and identity Interconnecting scales, themes and sites Multiple frameworks for understanding young people, place and identity Youthful futures Appendix A: Key authors Appendix B: Journals about young people, place and identity Appendix C: Research centres and organisations Bibliography Index