Young People's Geographies and the school curriculum
Young People's Geographies and the school curriculum
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青少年地理学和学校课程
DOI：
10.1080/00167487.2012.12094355
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发表时间：
2012
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影响因子：
1.4
通讯作者：
M. Biddulph
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作者：
M. Biddulph
“星期六下午。伯明翰的牛圈购物中心。两个女人正在一家咖啡馆外喝着一杯葡萄酒。在他们对面，一座雕像旁的一组台阶上，一大群青少年正在谈论他们在MySpace上发现的最新乐队，用他们的手机更新他们在Facebook上的状态，并谈论他们当晚在哪里见面。一名保安走了过来，告诉这群人散开或继续前进。(Griffiths，2010，第46页)。上面的摘录展示了年轻人遇到成人空间的方式。在这里，在购物中心，他们在关心自己的事情，参与自己的活动，并因为“年轻”而被排除在外；这是一个实际的日常例子，说明了什么是“年轻人的地理”，因为它展示了年轻人的生活如何与机构，在这种情况下，是购物中心的消费者大厦和中心安全的权威，以及这些机构如何影响年轻人的空间生活。这个例子还说明了年轻人如何利用成人空间来满足自己的需求，并在这样做的过程中改造这些空间；在这种情况下，购物中心的消费空间是
‘Saturday afternoon. The Bull Ring Shopping Centre, Birmingham. Two women are catching up over a glass of wine outside a café. Across from them, on a group of steps by a statue a big group of teenagers are talking about the latest band they’ve discovered on MySpace, using their mobile phones to update their status on Facebook and chatting about where they’re going to meet that evening. A security guard comes over and tells the group to break up or move on’(Griffiths, 2010, p. 46).The above extract demonstrates the ways in which young people encounter adult spaces. Here, in a shopping centre they are minding their own business, participating in their own activities and being excluded for being ‘young’; it is a practical day-to-day example of what can be meant by ‘young people’s geographies’ in that it demonstrates how young people’s lives intersect with institutions, in this case the consumer edifice of a shopping centre and the authority of the centre’s security, and the ways such institutions influence the spatial lives of young people. This example also illustrates ways in which young people can appropriate adult spaces for their own needs and, in doing so, transform such spaces; in this case the consumer space of the shopping centre is