Youth beyond the city : : thinking from the margins / / David Farrugia and Signe Ravn, editors.

• TeilnehmendeR: Farrugia, David,; Ravn, Signe,
• Place / Publishing House: Bristol, UK : : Bristol University Press,, [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (276 pages)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

This interdisciplinary collection charts the experiences of young people in rural and regional areas and city outskirts around the world. International experts investigate aspects of marginal spatiality including citizenship, materiality and belonging, and look at the complex relationships between place, history, politics and education.

Table of Contents

Front Cover -- Youth Beyond the City: Thinking from the Margins -- Copyright information -- Table of contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction: Thinking from the Margins -- Introduction -- Creating the margins -- Where are the margins? -- Towards dismantling the margins: the chapters in the book -- Inequalities: education and aspiration on the margins -- Materialities: spatiality and sensory embodiment -- Identities: mobility, rootedness and belonging -- Temporalities: historicizing space and place -- Conclusion -- Part I Inequalities: Education and Aspiration on the Margins -- 1 Peripheries within the City: The Role of Place/Space in Shaping Youth Educational Choices and Transitions -- Introduction -- Spatializing youth educational choices and transitions -- Methods and data -- Results -- Unpacking urban mobility and educational transitions -- Choosing upper secondary education -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Acknowledgements -- References -- 2 Disrupting the Discourse of Under-representation: The Place of Rural Students in Australian Higher Education Equity Policy -- Introduction -- Investigating the aspirational strategies of rural youth: habitus as a theory of action -- The study -- Oldfields: the changing face of a rural community -- Strategic innovation: grasping at opportunities -- Strategic compromise: opportunities within limits -- Conclusion -- Note -- References -- 3 Becoming a Young Organic Farmer in the Indian Punjab -- Introduction -- Young people's agricultural aspirations in the global south -- Background to the study: regional context and research methods -- Situating the decision to farm in social context -- Aspirations of the family -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- Notes -- References -- Part II Materialities: Spatiality and Sensory Embodiment.

4 Reimagining Space, Reorganizing Lives: Environmental Activism in Myanmar -- Introduction -- Background -- Methods and data -- Theoretical framework -- Life on the ground in Myanmar -- Disruption -- Reimagining space, reorganizing lives -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 5 'A Quiet Place': The Natural Environment as a Sphere of (Non)Belonging for Refugee-background Young People in Regional Resettlement Locations -- Introduction -- Refugee youth in regional resettlement locations -- Refugee-background youth and the natural environment -- The Dispersed Belongings study: context and approach -- (Non)belonging in the natural environment -- First encounters -- 'A quiet place' -- Trans-rural belonging -- Practising belonging -- Resources for belonging -- Politics of (non)belonging -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- Notes -- References -- 6 Bright Lights, No City: Investigating Young People's Suburban and Rural Drinkscapes -- Introduction -- The spatial, material and sensory turns in studies of youth and alcohol -- Young people's engagements with drinkscapes -- The studies and their settings -- Creating suburban drinkscapes -- Creating rural drinkscapes -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Part III Identities: Mobility, Rootedness and Belonging -- 7 Thinking beyond the Neighbourhood and National Territory: Exploring Central American Migration from a Mobilities Perspective -- Introduction -- Mobilities perspective and migration -- Violence, crime and migration in Honduras -- Methodology and methods -- Mobilities of Honduran asylum seekers -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 8 Youth Transitions and Spatiality: The Case of a Deprived Coastal Town in the UK -- Introduction -- Spatial inequalities and contemporary youth -- Localities depicted as 'left behind': entrenched deprivation in UK coastal towns -- Methods and data -- Analysis.

Labour market transitions in a deprived coastal context -- 'Stickiness' of social class and the mobility imperative -- Displacement pressure through the lens of tourism and regeneration -- Conclusion -- References -- 9 Housing and Regional Rootedness: Home Ownership beyond the Metropolis -- Introduction -- Towards an immobility perspective in mobilities research -- Rural housing and Launceston -- Methods -- Staying and returning -- The complexities of housing in a regional centre -- Relational imperatives and future plans -- Conclusion -- References -- Part IV Temporalities: Historicizing Space and Place -- 10 Places of Belonging, Places of Detachment: Belonging and Historical Consciousness in Narratives of Rural Finnish Girls -- Introduction -- Place, belonging and historical consciousness -- Research sites, data and analysis -- Findings and discussion -- Narratives of contradicting bonds of belonging -- Narratives of detachment -- Narratives of strong belonging -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 11 Backward Youth? Racist Trolling and Political (In)Correctness among Young People in Rural Sweden -- Introduction -- Understanding (rural) racism -- The study and the field -- Racist jokes and sarcasm -- Classed dimensions of racism -- Educational moments -- Claiming explicit racism -- Conclusion -- References -- 12 At the Margins: The Persistent Inequalities of Youth, Place and Class -- Introduction -- Growing up in rural areas: local class distinctions and differential attachment -- The strengths of working-class community, the 'left behind' and how 'the worst place' is the best place -- Class and place in UK higher education: 'the opportunity university'? -- Conclusion: what has changed and what has stayed the same in young people's experiences of place? -- Notes -- References -- Index -- Back Cover.