scholarly journals Young People and Urban Public Space in Australia-Creating Pathways to Community, Belonging and Inclusion

2015 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 138 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mike DEE
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Urban Spaces ◽  
Children And Young People ◽  
Urban Public Space ◽  
Community Belonging ◽  
Monitoring And Surveillance ◽  
Space Environments ◽  
And Control ◽  
Post Industrial

Cities and urban spaces around the world are changing rapidly from their origins in the industrialising world to a post-industrial, hard wired surveillance landscape. This kind of monitoring and surveillance connects with attempts by civic authorities to rebrand urban public spaces into governable and predictable arenas of consumption. In this context of control, a number of groups are excluded from public space, such as some children and young people. This article discusses the surveillance, governance and control of public space environments used by children and young people in particular, and the capacity for their ongoing displacement and marginality, as well as possible greater inclusion.

Analysis of the Slovak Discourses of Sex Education Inspired by Michel Foucault

Human Affairs ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ivan Lukšík ◽  
Dagmar Marková
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Religious Education ◽  
Sex Education ◽  
Michel Foucault ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Children And Young People ◽  
Basic Ability ◽  
And Control

Analysis of the Slovak Discourses of Sex Education Inspired by Michel FoucaultThe aims, rules and topics of sex education exist on paper, but have yet to be implemented in Slovakia. Although the curriculum creates the illusion of openness in this field, the silence on sex education in schools provides space for the alternative, "more valuable" quiet discourses of religious education. Under these conditions, it is silence that is proving to be an advantageous strategy for the majority of those who should be voicing their opinions. Instead, they listen and control. By contrast, those who do speak out, children and young people, do not in fact, speak to them, but mainly among themselves. Those who are silent and listen are not prepared for the younger generations confessions on sexuality, which are mostly taken from the liberal area of media, especially the internet. The silent frequently lack, at the very least, the basic ability to react and debate in this changed situation. Those who are involved in the discussion on sexuality in Slovakia are those who should listen and supervise.

scholarly journals Participation and the role of Public Space

2008 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Gabriel Copeland
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Young People ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Legal System ◽  
Children And Young People ◽  
Civic Society ◽  
Broad Definition ◽  
The Many ◽  
Definition Of

This article examines participatory rights as human rights and considers their importance to the lives of children and young people. It argues that a broad definition of participation needs to be used which takes us from 'round tables' to understanding that young people participate in many different ways. It points out that failure to recognise and respect the many varied ways that children and young people choose to participate results in a breach of their human rights. It shows how our socio-legal system operates to permit and support these breaches of the rights of children and young people, resulting in their alienation from civic society.

scholarly journals The Unbearable Lightness of the Cosmopolitan Canopy: Accomplishment of Diversity at an Urban Farmers Market

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sofya Aptekar
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Residential Segregation ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
Urban Spaces ◽  
Capitalist System ◽  
Farmers Market ◽  
Urban Public Space ◽  
Cultural Paradigms

This article provides a critique of work on urban public space that touts its potential as a haven from racial and class conflicts and inequalities. I argue that social structures and hierarchies embedded in the capitalist system and the state’s social control over the racialized poor are not suspended even in places that appear governed by civility and tolerance, such as those under Anderson’s “cosmopolitan canopy”. Durable inequality, residential segregation, nativism, and racism inevitably shape what happens in diverse public spaces. Using an ethnographic study of an urban farmers’ market in New York City, I show that appearances of everyday cosmopolitanism, tolerance, and pleasure in difference coexist with conflict and reproduction of inequalities that are inextricable because the space is embedded within larger structures, institutions, and cultural paradigms. By focusing on meaning-making in interaction, I analyze situated accomplishment of diversity and consider the implications for other types of urban spaces.

scholarly journals Mobility, surveillance and control of children and young people in the everyday: perspectives from sub-Saharan Africa

2011 ◽  
Vol 9 (1/2) ◽  
pp. 114-131 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gina Porter ◽  
Kate Hampshire ◽  
Alister Munthali ◽  
Elsbeth Robson
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Life Histories ◽  
Time Of Day ◽  
Sub Saharan Africa ◽  
Children And Young People ◽  
Research With Children ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Independent Travel ◽  
And Control

Surveillance of children and young people in non-Western contexts has received little attention in the literature.   In this paper we draw principally on our research in one African country, Malawi, to examine the ways in which their independent travel is shaped by  (usually adult-directed) surveillance and control in diverse urban and rural contexts.   Surveillance is interpreted very broadly, because our empirical data indicates a range of practices whereby a close watch is kept over children as they move around their community and travel out to other locations.  In some cases we suggest that surveillance of children and young people becomes internalized self-surveillance, such that no external social control is required to police their movements.Our evidence, from eight research sites, brings together a wide range of source material, including findings from intensive qualitative research with children and adults (in-depth interviews, accompanied walks, focus groups, life histories) and a follow-up questionnaire survey administered to children aged 7 - 18 years [N=1,003].  Although many of the children in our study attend school,  local economic circumstances in both urban and rural areas of  Malawi commonly require children’s participation from an early age in a much broader range of productive and reproductive work activities than is usual in Western contexts, with corresponding impact on daily patterns of movement.  Children may have to travel substantial distances for school, in support of family livelihoods, and for other purposes (including social events): the necessity for independent travel is common, and frequently raises concerns among parents and other adults in their communities such that surveillance is considered essential.  This is achieved principally by encouraging travel in groups of children. We show how young people’s independent travel  is mediated by (urban and rural) locational context, time of day, age and, in particular, by gender, and how adult efforts at surveillance may help shape resistances in the interstitial spaces which mobility itself provides.

The silent consensus: Linking citizenship and young people

1996 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 29-38
Author(s):  
Judith Bessant
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
Full Time ◽  
Children And Young People ◽  
The Family ◽  
Traditional Institutions ◽  
Post Industrial ◽  
Industrial Context ◽  
Rapid Transformation

In the current debates about citizenship, children and young people are profoundly affected by the exclusionary criteria that determine who is and who is not a citizen. This article asks how young people are currently treated as citizens. The Victorian Crimes Amendment Act (1994) provides a case study illustrating some of the ways young people's rights are denied in Australia. The article also asks how prevalent are certain assumptions that preclude young people from the category of citizenship. In a post-industrial context characterised by rapid transformation of traditional institutions critical to most young people, ie, ‘the family’ and full-time labour market, the importance of the inclusion of young people into the category of citizen becomes apparent.

scholarly journals Light, connectivity and place: young people living in a post-industrial town

2018 ◽  
Vol 25 (4) ◽  
pp. 537-551 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gareth M Thomas ◽  
Eva Elliott ◽  
Eve Exley ◽  
Gabrielle Ivinson ◽  
Emma Renold
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Media Representations ◽  
Multiple Sources ◽  
Structural Inequality ◽  
Public Campaign ◽  
Industrial Town ◽  
Cautionary Tales ◽  
Post Industrial

This article reports on a study of how young people in a post-industrial UK town reflect on their sense of health, place and identity. Drawing on 56 qualitative interviews with 14–15 year olds, we explore how young people negotiate public space and how public lighting and darkness affect interactions with their surroundings. The young people provide an insight into how dark places ignite strong feelings of anxiety and danger, deeply fuelled by the environment itself together with rumours, lived knowledge of the locale and symbolic boundaries shaping identities of belonging and exclusion in a context of structural inequality. Young people’s understandings of place are configured and energised by multiple sources, such as personal experiences and social locations, material landscapes and powerful discourses – historical and contemporary – conveyed via stories, cautionary tales and stigmatising media representations. We describe how the young people organised a public campaign to, among other things, install streetlights in a dark location. Their activism demonstrates how street lighting, or its absence, is both emblematic of the importance of connectivity and place in their lives, and a manifestation of material (political) abandonment and (class) devaluation.

scholarly journals Means of landscape architecture in the urban public space of Rome, Paris and Prague

2012 ◽  
Vol 60 (8) ◽  
pp. 281-298 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lucie Poláčková
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Landscape Architecture ◽  
Functional Performance ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
Urban Spaces ◽  
Urban Public Space ◽  
European Cities ◽  
New Knowledge ◽  
Specific Affinity

The aim of the research was to identify the role of landscape architecture means in the creation of urban public spaces as well as the possible ways they can be used in. In this respect, public urban spaces of three European metropolises were explored: Rome, Paris and Prague. These were chosen based on their specific affinity as they are within a broad cultural range of western European civilization. We have specified basic types of urban public spaces as streets, squares, parks, roof terraces and gardens, waterfronts, and “spaces between houses”. The basic means of landscape architecture used in urban public spaces are relief and paving, water, artwork, vegetation, furniture, minor constructions and light and time. Spatial and functional performance of the particular components was explored within the particular public spaces. As the functions of compositional principles are universal, their exploration can lead to some generalization. Naturally, the uniqueness of each place, its history and spatial context need to be taken into account. Only an exploration of public spaces in the largest possible scope and searching for mutual, often hidden or indirect parallels will yield new knowledge and understanding. The study has proven that these exist among the three selected European cities and they can serve as a guideline for further designs of public urban spaces.

scholarly journals Movement Through the Marginalised: An Urban Landscape Investigation

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Freddie Bensemann
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Landscape Architecture ◽  
Urban Landscape ◽  
Black Spot ◽  
Urban Spaces ◽  
Design Problems ◽  
Urban Public Space ◽  
Space Design ◽  
Marginalised Groups

<p><b>In Western democratic society, urban public space has always been dominated by theMainstream user. The Marginalised, to being periodically shifted from one area to another through prevailing processes that gentrify and regulate space. These habitual processes directly and indirectly manage civic space eroding particular character evolved fromMarginalised occupation and expression, and in doing so, urban space caters to the needs and wants of the Mainstream.</b></p> <p>This project investigates such a situation yet with such habits reversed. Through the landscape design of urban space the project asks can we design urban space to accommodate thesocio-spatial needs of the Marginalised whilst at the same time, support Mainstream users?</p> <p>The investigation situates its research in Te Aro Park, a public urban space in Wellington Cityoccupied predominantly by the Marginalised. From the homeless to the eccentric, the drugaddict to the gang member, the space is often a considered a black spot avoided oruncomfortably and rapidly moved through by the Mainstream user. With a social hierarchy that has been flipped on its head the space exudes the diverse nature of Wellington with murals and public artwork that represent the Marginalised groups including local Iwi.</p> <p>This project aims to use landscape architecture design to critically assess, seek and developpotentials for harmony of urban spaces exhibiting spatial and social conflicts betweenMarginalised and Mainstream citizens. It is an attempt through landscape architecture technique, to destabilize the binary between Mainstream and marginal, and therefore engender conditions for truly diverse urban spaces. In doing so the research discovers how designers can approach public space design problems while opposing the forces of displacement. The researchadditionally contributes an understanding of the underpinnings of trying to introduce new actors without displacement of the existing and more vulnerable actors.</p>

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