The Space and Power of Young People's Social Relationships

Immersive Geographies
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-61262-1
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 192 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 304 g

Reihe: Routledge Spaces of Childhood and Youth Series

The book examines the power of young people’s social relationships in schools to transform, or more often, to continue, differences that pervade societies: mind-body-emotional diff erences or Special Educational Needs and Disability, gender, poverty, race/ethnicity, sexuality and their intersections. The book details extensive qualitative research with young people, foregrounding their accounts.

In challenging educators and others to engage with young people’s own agencies and to make space for their socialities, the concepts of embodied social and emotional capital and young people as contextual bodies/subjectivities/agencies are developed, emphasising both young people’s agencies and how these are socio-spatially situated, constrained and enabled. The book is most concerned with how and when young people challenge and change enduring differences. The concept of ‘immersive geographies’ outlines the potential of change inherent in the repeated coming together of the same people in space, doing similar things that are, however, always provisional and always with the potential to be done diff erently. Examples of when diff erence is transformed are presented.

The book marks a major interdisciplinary contribution to geographies and social studies of children, youth and education, child development, social work, social policy and education studies. Furthermore, it is of appeal to anyone interested in young people, social reproduction and sociality: from educators, policy makers, youth workers and social workers to parents.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Undergraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Holt, Louise

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Humangeographie
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Geographie: Allgemeines, Karten & Atlanten

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. The Spaces and Power of Young People’s Friendships: Geographies of Immersion. 2. Methods, Approaches, Contexts. 3. Young People’s Friendships and Power. 4. Towards Spaces of Immersion. 5. Young People’s Friendships: Embodied, Emotional and Social Capital. 6. Young People as Nodes of the Intergenerational Reproduction of Enduring Differences: (Re)producing Subjectivities. 7. Geographies of Immersion and Imminent Transformation: Young People’s Powerful Socialities – The Power to Challenge and Change Enduring Inequalities. 8. Constraining and Enabling Young People’s Power – Some Thoughts on the Social-Spatial Contexts of Schools. 9. Conclusions.

Über Autor(innen)

Louise Holt is Professor of Human Geography at Loughborough University and an internationally recognised scholar in the fi elds of geographies and social studies of children and youth and social and cultural geography. Louise was Editor-in-Chief of the journal Children’s Geographies for many years and founded the International Conferences of Geographies of Children, Youth and Families. She has published three key edited collections and many journal articles.