Youth in motion: spatialising youth movement(s) in the social sciences
Rebecca Collins
James Esson
Caitlin O. Gutierrez
Adefemi Adekunle
2134/17414
https://repository.lboro.ac.uk/articles/journal_contribution/Youth_in_motion_spatialising_youth_movement_s_in_the_social_sciences/9482255
‘Youth in Motion: Spatialising Youth Movement(s) in the Social Sciences’ was a one-day interdisciplinary
workshop convened by the University College London (UCL) Youth Geographies
Research Group on Thursday 16 June 2011. The workshop attracted an international audience
with participants from institutions in France, Finland, Italy, Canada and Australia, as well as
around the UK. Although all attendees worked with youth in an academic context, many were
also experienced youth work practitioners. Our primary objective was to provide an opportunity
for social scientists working with youth in a diverse range of disciplinary contexts to consider how
research accommodates the notion of movement(s) when exploring the spaces, places and everyday
experiences of young lives. In this brief report, we aim to present some of the key themes that
emerged over the course of the workshop and connect these with recent work asking ‘where
next?’ for geographical research with youth...
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