Growing up, going out and growing out of the countryside: childhood experiences in Rural England

Giddings, Bob; Yarwood, Richard

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“…As others (e.g. Giddings and Yarwood, 2005;Malone and Hasluck, 1998) have suggested, it is not only material facilities that influence rural young people's experiences of their environments. These findings are also consistent with those of Nairn et al (2003) who found that young people's cultural understandings influence their use of public space and therefore, presence of facilities is not an accurate depiction of actual access.…”

Section: A Sense Of Placementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Dempsey, 1992;Giddings and Yarwood, 2005;Rye, 2006;Tucker and Matthews, 2001). This trend is consistent with other research which suggests that the nature of leisure and sports in rural settings tends to follow traditional gender structures (e.g.…”

Section: Family Friends Sport and Physical Activities In The Lives mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Savage and Scott (1998) reported that physical activity patterns were similar between rural and urban young people in Indiana (USA). Giddings and Yarwood (2005) noted that English rural boys and girls used the same leisure spaces in different ways with boys playing more sports and organised games in groups while girls' activities were less formal and based around meeting and talking. In general however, Tonts (2005) reports that research on rural sports (and physical activities) has focussed on questions associated with infrastructure provision, facilities management, physical activity, and health promotion, leaving social dimensions rarely studied.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Importantly, Giddings and Yarwood (2005) suggested that it would be 'wrong' (p. 111) to consider rural young people as marginalised or deprived based only on their rural location. Indeed, very few of the English rural young people they studied regarded themselves in this way as they had formed their own identities in relation to their sense of place (Giddings and Yarwood, 2005).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Indeed, very few of the English rural young people they studied regarded themselves in this way as they had formed their own identities in relation to their sense of place (Giddings and Yarwood, 2005). …”

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In this paper I explore the relationship between marginality and rural youth by revealing the multiplicity of ways in which young people's identities are performed in contemporary rural society. I illustrate how for some rural youth engendering a sense of 'belonging' in the countryside is a daily struggle -a struggle embedded in the way power is executed in villages. Recent research illustrates how dominant discourses of rurality refl ect and mutually reinforce conventional gender identities and stereotypes in particular places. While emphasising the signifi cance of this work to the study of rurality and identity, this paper argues for the need to extend academic analysis to examine the marginalising infl uence of dominant constructions of rurality on some young people. Through exploring young people's narratives of self I further develop identity theories around notions of the body through movement in village spaces. Drawing on the experiences of the young people in this study, this paper further demonstrates the existence of highly defi ned ideas concerning acceptable rural identities and how some young men and women struggle to maintain their sense of belonging.

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Growing up, going out and growing out of the countryside: childhood experiences in Rural England

Cited by 34 publications

References 27 publications

Physical activity and rural young people's sense of place

Physical activity and rural young people's sense of place

The struggle to belong: young people on the move in the countryside

The Social Geography of ‘Going Out’: Teenagers and Community Cinema in Rural Australia

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