Understanding how place is addressed in research on young people’s political action: cases from Sweden

Adolfsson, Maja; Coe, Anna‐Britt

doi:10.1080/13676261.2022.2144715

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“…activism, community, co-production, participation, place, planning In addition to engaging children as co-researchers, the participation of children in activism is an expanding area of interest in the field of place-making research. Children as activists is an area most recently concerned with climate change (Holmberg & Alvinius, 2022;Spyrou et al, 2022), although some instances of place-based research have been reported (Adolfsson & Coe, 2022;Davis, 2017;Ginwright, 2007). Recent research has suggested that child participation in activism can enable children to engage with processes that go beyond simply sharing their lived experiences and, instead, allows them to take an active role in challenging the issues that affect them (Tisdall & Cuevas-Parra, 2022).…”

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‘We live here and play here, we should have a say’: An exploration of children's perceptions of place‐making in the Market community, Belfast

McAteer,

Loudon,

Higgins

2023

Children & Society

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Children learn through interaction with their surroundings, meaning that their experiences of place directly contribute to their personal development. Despite this, the needs of the youth are rarely factored into development plans. This is a major obstacle to the sustainable and inclusive development of places. Examining potential pathways to correct this issue, this paper presents the findings of research conducted with young people from the Market area of Belfast. The research engaged with two groups (n = 11) in a participatory investigation of how young people engage with the built environment. Using several participatory methods, including narrative walkabouts, mapping exercises and semi‐structured group interviews, the children engaged as co‐researchers. We link to idea of ‘third places’ to frame our analysis, demonstrating how children in the Market community have strong opinions of how space is, and should be, designed and managed. We reveal interesting dynamics regarding the children's perceived exclusion from the city centre and concerns about how poor planning is harming their community's public health. We conclude by reflecting upon some of the children's proposed solutions, as well as by presenting two outcomes of our study that hint at the potential future role of young people in co‐designing the built environment.

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