Young People, Place and Identity

Young people, place and identity offers a series of rich insights into young people's everyday lives. What places do young people engage with on a daily basis? How do they use these places? How do their identities influence these contexts? By working through common-sense understandings of young people's behaviours and the places they occupy, this text seeks to answer these and other questions. In doing so, it challenges and re-shapes understandings of young people's relationships with different places and identities.In order to explore these issues, Young people, place and identity adopts a scalar approach exploring the complex ways in which young people's engagements with issues framed as global, national, urban and institutional in character interact with their identities and their use of homespace, neighbourhoods and public space. Readers will be introduced to a range of methodological issues involved in doing research with young people, along with a series of theoretically-informed empirical examples to highlight these issues. Following this, a series of chapters then engage with the multifaceted ways in which different scales influence and are influenced by young people and their multiple identities.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. This book engages with research conducted with young people and includes a broad range of topics: youth transitions; pub and club culture; political participation; media representation; family relations. The author explores these issues through blending together original empirical research, theory and policy. This text will be of much use to undergraduate and postgraduate students and academic researchers interested in better understanding the relationships between young people, places and identitiesHopkins, Peter is the author of 'Young People, Place and Identity', published 2010 under ISBN 9780415454377 and ISBN 0415454379.