“Do you guys hate Aucklanders too?” Youth: voicing difference from the rural heartland

Smith, Linda Tuhiwai; Smith, Graham; Boler, Megan; Kempton, Margaret; Ormond, Adreanne; Chueh, Ho-chia; Waetford, Rona

doi:10.1016/s0743-0167(01)00037-7

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“…Studies have highlighted challenges facing young people such as isolation and social exclusion (Alston and Kent, 2009;Looker and Naylor, 2009;Smith et al, 2002). Nonetheless, research also suggests positive aspects of growing up in rural areas, with the natural environment being highly valued by some (Haukanes, 2013;Leyshon, 2010).…”

Section: Counterurbanisation and Young People In Britainmentioning

confidence: 99%

A good move? Young people’s comparisons of rural and urban living in Britain

Tyrrell

Harmer

2015

Childhood

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This article analyses young people's (aged 12-18 years) comparisons of urban and rural living within the context of counterurbanisation in Britain. By exploring the experiences of young people who migrate from urban to rural environments, drawing out gender-and age-based differences when appropriate, we demonstrate that these young people occupy a unique in-between space from which to reflect on their past and current identities, experiences and locales. This article contributes to the growing literature seeking to understand the diversity and complexity of young people's experiences and understandings of the rural.

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Section: Counterurbanisation and Young People In Britainmentioning

confidence: 99%

A good move? Young people’s comparisons of rural and urban living in Britain

Tyrrell

Harmer

2015

Childhood

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“…While idyllised constructions of one uniform 'rural childhood' have given way, under critical scrutiny, to the recognition of the multiple possibilities and experiences of 'the rural' (Smith et al, 2002), the myth of the rural as the 'natural' place of childhood nonetheless remains dominant in cultural imaginings (Jones, 2000(Jones, , 2007. In contrast, the adolescent or teen presence is constructed as 'anti-idyll' as their presence is thought to "introduce disquiet, crime and immorality" (Matthews, Limb and Taylor, 1999) into what appear to be otherwise harmonious and peaceful settings.…”

Section: Youth Rurality and Recreationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Playing in the woods: youth, leisure and the performance of gender relations in rural Newfoundland

Norman

Power

Dupré

2011

Annals of Leisure Research

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Based on qualitative interviews and focus groups with youth (12-24 years) living in rural, coastal Newfoundland, Canada, we examine how leisure practices within this context served to reproduce and naturalise localised gender relations. More specifically, we argue that the participants drew upon dominant discursive constructions of rural leisure to reiteratively enact a binary distinction between the 'town' as a space of constraint, youthadult tensions, and consumerism in contrast to the freedom and privacy of the 'woods'. This dichotomy was mapped onto gender binaries, where the town was coded as feminine and the woods masculine. We argue that these constructions served to mark the boundaries of normative gender leisure practices in the production of embodied gender subjectivities.

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“…In these works, young people are recognized as sharing social spaces and encounters with adults, while also creating their own activities and uses of space (Panelli 2002;Roberts 2000). These academic discourses of 'active' youth have been extended in recent years, as sociologists and geographers have recognized that children and youth are also competent and creative producers of cultural knowledge (Freeman 1998;James and Prout 1990;Leonard, 1998;Matthews and Limb 1999;McCormack 2002;Smith et al 2002). Valentine and Skelton (1998) have highlighted a range of youth subcultures and social practices, indicating that young people can be both active and creative in their social interaction and formation of identities (see especially Malbon 1998;Smith 1998).…”

Section: Young People As Active Heterogeneous Cultural Producersmentioning

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“…Valentine and Skelton (1998) have highlighted a range of youth subcultures and social practices, indicating that young people can be both active and creative in their social interaction and formation of identities (see especially Malbon 1998;Smith 1998). In a rural setting, young people develop their own diverse range of cultural knowledges concerning rurality, work, and identity; knowledges that are shaped by both the discursive and material worlds in which they live (for instance, see : Haug 2002;McCormack 2000;Punch 2000;Smith et al 2002). Moreover, attention to relatively transient discursive and electronic spaces has also been noted as arenas where youth can produce their own constructions of the world and their place within it (Leonard 1998;Holloway et al 2000;Valentine 2000;Valentine and Skelton 2001).…”

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confidence: 99%

“We make our own fun”: Reading the politics of youth with(in) community

2002

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V alentine's (1996) major review of the historic and contemporary meanings of childhood closed with a call for the "politics of childhood" to be investigated. Her review showed how children are often treated as "human becomings" rather than competent social beings who actively create their own experiences and negotiate the spaces and institutions they encounter. Recent sociologies and geographies of children and youth have expanded on these themes. They have moved away from earlier treatments of children as "adults in training" (such as Dunne (1980) argued). Instead scholars have increasingly considered how children and young people construct their own understandings of their environments; negotiate a range of social relations; and actively create their own cultures and social practices (e.g. Matthews et al. These trends shaped the research on which this paper is based. In studying young people's experience of their local 'communities' 1 we recognize youth as knowledgeable, creative and competent members of their society. We have also drawn on Valentine's attention to power relations to construct our own readings of the politics of youth, based on the social and spatial dimensions of their lives. Thus this paper presents a politics of how young people 2 (aged 13-18 years) understand and negotiate their lives in a rural town in southern New Zealand. It traces the spatial and social relations young people encounter while living in, and moving around, Alexandra.This town of approximately 4,600 people is the nearest, largest centre beyond the regional city of Dunedin (110,000 people, two hours away -see Figure 1). It services a large and relatively sparsely settled agricultural area dominated by pastoral and horticultural activities. Alexandra is the seat of the Central Otago District Council and provides a range of administrative, commercial and social services (including a high school and boarding facility) to the town and district residents, and the many travellers and tourists who stop on their way to the Queenstown Lakes district. This paper presents young people's accounts of 'community' as they gathered in the 'public' and open spaces of Alexandra: streets, shopping areas, parks etc. We collected young people's accounts of 'community' as they experienced and negotiated the 'everyday spaces' of their town (Valentine 1996, p. 597, Matthews et al 2002 3 .

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“Do you guys hate Aucklanders too?” Youth: voicing difference from the rural heartland

Cited by 53 publications

References 15 publications

A good move? Young people’s comparisons of rural and urban living in Britain

A good move? Young people’s comparisons of rural and urban living in Britain

Playing in the woods: youth, leisure and the performance of gender relations in rural Newfoundland

“We make our own fun”: Reading the politics of youth with(in) community

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