Youth in motion: spatialising youth movement(s) in the social sciences

Collins, Rebecca; Gutierrez, Caitlin O'Neill; Adekunle, Adefemi A.

doi:10.1080/14733285.2013.779840

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“…Then, through a brief foray into the im/mobilities experienced by young people drinking in, and through, outdoor public spaces, I argued non‐human actants must also be taken into consideration (Adey, ). More than this, I contended that the stillness of (non)humans is an active engagement with space; and thus staying in the same place is an act equally as significant as mobility for identity construction (Collins et al ). To conclude, echoing Laughlin and Johnson (), young people are important users and creators of public space.…”

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Alcohol, Young People and Urban Life

Wilkinson

2015

Geography Compass

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Moving beyond the current academic pre-occupation with the night-time economy and drinking venues, this paper highlights the specificities of outdoor drinking cultures in streets and parks. Instead of viewing outdoor drinking as morally transgressive -as promoted in the popular press -it is contended that outdoor drinkscapes are distinctly appealing over commercial premises for some young urbanites. Streets and parks enable young people to feel socially and physically unrestricted whilst consuming alcohol; provide a space where young people can drink with friends who are not old enough to consume alcohol in commercial premises; and allow drinkers a chance to consume relatively cheap alcohol. Accounts of young people in urban public spaces are typically one of intergenerational conf lict, whereby adults seek to exclude or marginalise young people or, at least, try to control their presence and activities. However, in attempting to understand young people's alcohol consumption experiences in outdoor urban spaces, a series of complex personal geographies emerge in which not only adult-young people relations but also young people-young people relations play an important role. Whilst some progress has been made in exposing the diversity of young people's drinkscapes, it is argued that much of the existing literature renders young people's drinking spaces static, bounded terrains. This paper turns to suggest that the 'new mobilities paradigm' can be drawn upon to develop and enrich the geographies of young urbanites' outdoor alcohol consumption experiences. It is argued that the extant literature on alcohol-related mobilities is predominantly concerned with a 'pointillist' understanding of mobility. It is contended that Bissell's (2013) alternative conceptualisation of mobility as a 'loop' is a more apt means of capturing the more pointless every night mobilities of many young people; particularly the mobilities of those who are not old enough/choose not to consume alcohol in commercial premises, and choose instead to spend their evenings traversing outdoor drinkscapes. It is also asserted that the embodied, emotional and affective elements of young people's alcohol-related im/mobilities need to be much more prominent if understandings of the lived experiences of young urbanites' drinking geographies are to be unearthed.

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“…However, when conceptualising young people's alcohol‐related mobilities, it is important not to downplay the importance of stillness for identity construction and belonging (see Collins et al ). More than this, it is imperative not to depreciate the significance of more‐than‐human actants (see Adey ).…”

Section: Drunken Im/mobilitiesmentioning

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Alcohol, Young People and Urban Life

Wilkinson

2015

Geography Compass

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“…Geographies of youth across the global North and South have acknowledged the increasing economic insecurity that young people in urban contexts encounter as they deal with uncertainties regarding education, accommodation, marriage, stigma, and the realities of insecure livelihoods and systemic under-employment (Collins et al, 2013;Cranston et al, 2020;Gough et al, 2013Gough et al, , 2016Jeffrey, 2012;Nayak & Kehily, 2014). Low-income youth in African cities in particular have been portrayed as a troubled and vulnerable demographic, stuck in persistent un/under employment and labelled as either victims of structural injustice or the "ticking time bomb" that poses potential risks to urban order (Finn & Oldfield, 2015;World Bank, 2007).…”

Section: Youth Geographies and The Urban Hustlementioning

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Geographies of youth, mobile phones, and the urban hustle

Amankwaa

2020

Geographical Journal

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Geographers have shown how mobile phones are transforming urban economies in Africa by altering the temporal and spatial nature of commercial transactions. Less well documented is how young people in Africa are using mobile phones to navigate the interplay between personal hopes, social expectations, and financial uncertainty associated with urban life. Drawing on qualitative data from youth in two Ghanaian cities, and insights from literature on youth geographies, hustling, and everyday urbanism, this paper explores how young people use mobile phones to conjure up and sustain social relations and income-generating opportunities in urban settings. Three significant thematic findings emerge from our empirical data: the role of mobile phones in shaping young people's social status and responsibilities; the use of mobile phones as instruments for surveillance and relationships; and the use of mobile phone technologies as assets for realising income-generating opportunities. Conceptually, our exploration of mobile phone usage furthers geographical scholarship by providing new insights on the multidimensional nature of constraints faced by youth and their strategies to overcome them. Furthermore, the incorporation of a comparative element within the study illustrates the need for a more spatially nuanced understanding of young people's uptake and use of mobile phone technologies.

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“…When conceptualising student mobilities, it is important not to downplay the importance of stillness for identity construction and belonging (see Collins et al 2013). This point was made earlier by Urry (2003), who argues for the significance of moorings that are solid, static and immobile to be appreciated.…”

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Walk this way: the rhythmic mobilities of university students in Greater Manchester, UK

Wilkinson

Badwan

2020

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Mobility in the context of higher education is often privileged to large(r)scale international movements, neglecting the everyday mobilities practiced by students. This is important, as banal mobilities constitute important affective experiences for students. In responding to calls for a microbodily mobilities approach to student geographies in the UK, we draw on semi-structured interviews conducted with university students aged 18-25 studying in Greater Manchester. Through discussing the complex, multilayered everyday walking mobilities of students, we illuminate how embodied, emotional and affective walking mobility practices shape students' experiences and identities. Findings show that, for students in our study, moorings are often as important as mobilities to identity formation, and place attachment. Bringing to the fore the embodied, emotional and affective nature of student micro-mobilities is necessary, since various forms of movement and stillness are important to student wellbeing, enabling students to have space and time to think, reflect, and form attachments and belonging with people and spaces. This paper has implications for higher education and urban designers. We contend that it is crucial to draw attention to students' experiences of walking and sitting in the city, which significantly contribute to constructing sense of place and belonging to the university city.

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Youth in motion: spatialising youth movement(s) in the social sciences

Cited by 11 publications

References 6 publications

Alcohol, Young People and Urban Life

Alcohol, Young People and Urban Life

Geographies of youth, mobile phones, and the urban hustle

Walk this way: the rhythmic mobilities of university students in Greater Manchester, UK

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