Full Description
This interdisciplinary collection charts the experiences of young people in places of spatial marginality around the world, dismantling the privileging of urban youth, urban locations and urban ways of life in youth studies and beyond.
Expert authors investigate different dimensions of spatiality including citizenship, materiality and belonging, and develop new understandings of the complex relationships between place, history, politics and education. From Australia to India, Myanmar to Sweden, and the UK to Central America, international examples from both the Global South and North help to illuminate wider issues of intergenerational change, social mobility and identity.
By exploring young lives beyond the city, this book establishes different ways of thinking from a position of spatial marginality.
Chapter 10 is available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence
Contents
Introduction: Thinking from the Margins - David Farrugia and Signe Ravn
Part I: Inequalities: Education and Aspiration on the Margins
1. Peripheries Within the City: The Role of Place in Shaping Youth Educational Transitions and Identities - Aina Tarabini, Judith Jacovkis and Alejandro Montes
2. Disrupting the Discourse of Under-representation: The Place of Rural Students in Australian Higher Education Equity Policy - Sally Patfield, Jennifer Gore and Leanne Fray
3. Becoming a Young Organic Farmer in the Indian Punjab - Trent Brown
Part II: Materialities: Spatiality and Sensory Embodiment
4. Reimagining Space, Reorganising Lives: Environmental activism in Myanmar - Johanna Garnett
5. 'A Quiet Place': The Natural Environment as a Sphere of (Non)Belonging for Refugee-background Young People in Regional Resettlement Locations - Caitlinn Nunn
6. Bright Lights, No City: Investigating Young People's Suburban and Rural Drinkscapes - Laura Fenton, Claire Markham and Samantha Wilkinson
Part III: Identities: Mobility, Rootedness and Belonging
7. Thinking Beyond the Neighbourhood and National Territory: Exploring Central American Migration from a Mobilities Perspective - Lirio del Carmen Gutiérrez Rivera
8. Youth Transitions and Spatiality: The Case of a Deprived Coastal Town in the UK - Aniela Wenham
9. Homeownership Beyond the Metropolis: Housing and Rootedness in Regional Tasmania - Julia Cook, Helen Cahill and Dan Woodman
Part IV: Temporalities: Historicising Space and Place
10. Places of Belonging, Places of Detachment. Placemaking and Historical Consciousness in Contemporary Finnish Rural Youth - Kaisa Vehkalahti and Helena Pennanen
11. Backward Youth? Racist Trolling and Political (in)Correctness among Young People in Rural Sweden - Susanna Areschoug
12. At the Margins: The Persistent Inequalities of Youth, Place and Class - Rob MacDonald
