Young People, Place and Identity

This book works through common-sense understandings of young people's behaviours and the places they occupy. Drawing upon research from a range of contexts, including Europe, North America and Australasia, this text demonstrates the complex ways in which young people creatively shape, contest and resist their engagements with different places and identities. Engaging with research conducted with young people this book includes a broad range of topics: youth transitions; pub and club culture; political participation; media representation; and, family relations.

ISBN 0415454395   Volumes 1 ISBN13 9780415454391 (What's this?)   Weight (grammes) 544 Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd   Published in London Imprint Routledge   Height (mm) 234 Format Paperback   Width (mm) 156 Publication date 28 Jun 2010   Spine width (mm) 15 DEWEY 305.235   Academic level Undergraduate DEWEY edition DC22   Alternative ISBN 9780415454377 Pages 336

		List of illustrations
		List of tables
		List of boxes
		Acknowledgements
1		Introduction		1
		Young people		2
		Identities		5
		Place		11
		Frameworks for studying young people, place and identity		14
		Placing young people		17
		How to use this book		20
		Part I Researching young people: methods and ethics		25
2		Research with young people		27
		Young people's place in research		28
		Research methods		34
		Data analysis and dissemination		47
3		Ethical and methodological considerations		53
		Obtaining informed consent		60
		Confidentiality and anonymity		62
		Incentivising participation		66
		Positionalities and power relations		67
		Part II Scales		71
4		The body		73
		Youthful bodies		73
		Marginalised bodies		77
		Subcultural bodies		83
		Excessive bodies		86
5		Home		95
		Youthful homespaces		95
		Experiencing home		99
		Without home		102
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"Young People, Place and Identity has bridged the scale gap in youth geographies by bringing us from localized understandings of young people to seeing the productions of youth spaces and identities across regional, national, and global lines. Hopkins' draws from his own and others' research with young people to work out youth perspectives on the construction and meanings of places such as 'home' and 'nation' with rich contextual details and stories from youth, but also links this empirical depth with significant new theoretical understandings that will push the discipline in fresh directions." Meghan Cope, University of Vermont, USA "A much needed text which will be invaluable for both students and teachers interested in young people's experience of identity and place. It brings a rich geographical sensibility to the study of young people's lives and will be highly relevant across the social sciences." Elizabeth A. Gagen, University of Hull, UK "Peter Hopkins has produced a valuableabookathat responds imaginativelyato the rising interest amongst social scientists in questions of young people, place and identity. Itais ambitious in its theoretical endeavour, broad in its geographic range and novel in its conceptual organisation. I'm sure it will appeal to social geographers and sociologists alike and the clarity of its writing and presentation will make it very popular with students." Professor Robert MacDonald, Teesside University, UK

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