This article explores the affective, embodied dimensions of young rural people's relationship with space and place. Relationship with space and place has been recognised as a significant dimension of rural youths' subjectivities but it has been primarily understood through representational perspectives which focus on young people's perceptions, images, or discursive constructions of their local places. In contrast, this article draws on non-representational approaches to subjectivity and space to highlight the embodied, sensuous entanglements between young people's subjectivities and the spaces they have inhabited and experienced. Qualitative data gathered as part of a project exploring youths' subjectivities in regional Australia shows that young people's experience of their rural locale, as well as their relationship to the city, reflect an affective topology of relations of proximity and rhythmic tempo which emerges from the relationship between the space of their bodily hexis and the spaces and places they are situated within. These non-representational, embodied processes are intrinsic to rural youths' subjectivities and structure how young people approach and navigate their futures.

This article draws together arguments for an interdisciplinary ‘spatial turn’ within sociology to analyse the subjectivities and biographical imaginings of Australian rural youth. It draws on a theoretical dialogue between theories of social change, and developments in socio-spatial theory in order to analyse the spatial contours of young people’s narratives, making a case for the significance of an ‘extraverted’ and porous sense of place for understanding rural youth identity. After a theoretical argument about the contemporary meaning of place for theories of globalisation and individualisation, the article presents two theoretically driven sets of case studies. The first discusses rural youth whose identities speak to the importance of place and ‘the local’ as resources for identity, while the second describes young people whose identities are ‘stretched’ across multiple spaces and locales. The analysis speaks to the importance of place for understanding the forms of reflexivity that rural youth mobilise in constructing their place in the world, and speaks to new ways in which to re-embed sociological analyses of youth within the spatially complex social landscapes of a globalised world.

Small, euhedral Mn-rich garnets (32-52 mol. % spessartine) from the Cairngorm granite, Eastern Grampian Highlands, Scotland, are considered to be of magmatic origin and have not been derived from the assimilation of metasedimentary material, despite their occurrence largely at the margins of the pluton. Similar garnets also occur in a late cross-cutting aplite sheet. The garnets in the granite crystallized early in the sequence and are thought to have formed in response to the ponding of Mnrich fluids against the wall of the pluton. This Mn enrichment of the fluid phase continued throughout the evolution of the pluton, resulting in Mn-rich biotites and opaque oxides and the localized crystallization of Mn-rich garnets in aplite. Garnet contains up to 1.67 wt. % Y, but has not played a major role in the geochemical evolution of the Cairngorm granite, which has high SiO2 (72-77%) and is enriched in Y and HREE. Chemical analyses of garnets, biotites and rocks are given.

Synopsis Four new Rb-Sr whole rock ages and initial ratios are reported for the Monadhliath (419 ± 4.7 Ma), Glen Gairn Phase II (403.9 ± 6.1), Kincardine, Water of Feugh (416.2 ± 9.9) and Kincardine, porphyritic Main granite (416.4 ± 4.1). These ages are representative of members of two newly recognised groups of Newer Granite in the Eastern Grampians: one group, emplaced at c. 415 Ma, is associated with relatively abundant dioritic precursors, whereas the other group was emplaced at c. 408 Ma and is not associated with any mafic precursors. These two groups cannot be distinguished on the basis of their strontium initial ratios. The two episodes of granitic magmatism are thought to represent the transition between subduction and strike-slip faulting during the very last stages of the Caledonian orogeny. The later group of granites are found at the intersection of pre-Caledonian basement lineaments with post-subduction strike-slip faults, and the introduction of mantle material into the root zones of these faults may have initiated melting in the lower crust and granite generation. The dioritic and the granitic rocks of the early group are considered to be partial melts of relatively mafic lower crustal material. The later group of granites are akin to A-type granites in their proposed source material (depleted granulitic lower crust) and tectonic setting, and an analagous situation to the Eastern Grampians has been recognised from the Western Cordillera of the United States.

This paper explores the construction and contestation of moral distinctions as a dimension of contemporary structural inequality through a focus on the subjectivities constructed by young people who have experienced homelessness. Empirical material from two research projects shows that in young people's narratives of homelessness, material insecurity intertwines with the moral economies at work in neoliberal capitalist societies to construct homelessness as a state of moral disgrace, in which an ungovernable experience is experienced as a moral failure. When young people gain access to secure housing, the increasing stability and security of their lives is narrated in terms of a moral adherence to personal responsibility and disciplined conduct. Overall the paper describes an economy of worth organized around distinctions between order and chaos, self-governance and unruliness, morality and disgrace, which structures the experience of homelessness. As young people's position in relation to these moral ideals reflects the material conditions of their lives, their experiences demonstrate the way that moral hierarchies contribute to the existence and experience of structural inequalities in neoliberal capitalist societies.