Crafted within liminal spaces: Young people's everyday politics |
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| Authors: | Bronwyn E Wood |
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| Institution: | 1. Dipartimento di Scienza Politica, Via Strada Maggiore, 45, 40125 Bologna, Italy;2. Dipartimento di Scienze dell''Educazione, Via Filippo Re, 6, 40100 Bologna, Italy;1. Portland State University, Toulan School of Urban Studies and Planning, Population Research Center (PRC), P.O. Box 751, Portland, OR 97207-0751, United States;2. University of Arizona, School of Geography and Development, Harvill Building, Box #2, Tucson, AZ 85721, United States;1. School of Geography and Planning, Cardiff University, Glamorgan Building, King Edward VII Avenue, Cardiff CF10 3WT, United Kingdom;1. School of Psychology, University of East London, United Kingdom;2. School of People and Organisations, Open University, United Kingdom;3. Division of Psychology, London South Bank University, United Kingdom;1. Department of Sociology, University of Victoria, Cornett Building, A333, Victoria, BC, V8P 5C2, Canada;2. Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users, 380 E Hastings St, Vancouver, BC, V6A 1P4, Canada;3. Faculty of Human and Social Development, University of Victoria, HSD Building, Room A102, Victoria, BC, V8P 5C2, Canada |
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| Abstract: | This paper examines how high school-aged young people from New Zealand are crafting their everyday political subjectivities within the liminal status and liminal spaces they occupy in society. With a specific focus on schooling and the citizenship education curricula in New Zealand, three vignettes are introduced which examine young people's less reflexive and ‘everyday’ forms of political action in the interstitial liminal space between Public/private, Formal/informal and Macro/micro politics. These vignettes underline how young people's everyday politics were embedded within spatial and relational processes of socialisation with adults within their schools and communities, yet, also showed both agency and resourcefulness with these spaces. Young people's liminal status and occupation of liminal spaces provided them with unique perspectives on social issues (such as bullying, racism, water conservation, and obesity) and enabled them to respond in ways that were ‘different’ to adults' Politics, yet nonetheless showed their political and tactical selves (de Certeau, 1984). A focus on young people's political practices in liminal spaces allows for new possibilities and understandings of the political. |
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