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The mobility imperative for rural youth: the structural, symbolic and non-representational dimensions rural youth mobilities
- Source :
- Journal of Youth Studies. 19:836-851
- Publication Year :
- 2015
- Publisher :
- Informa UK Limited, 2015.
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Abstract
- Mobilities of money, symbols and young people themselves are central to the formation of the contemporary youth period. While rural young people remain marginal to theoretical development in youth studies, this paper shows that mobilities are especially significant for rural youth, who experience a kind of mobility imperative created by the accelerating concentration of economic and cultural capital in cities. Drawing on theory and evidence from contexts including Europe, Australia, Africa and South America, this paper explores the mobility imperative for rural youth and offers a new theoretical framework for understanding rural youth mobilities. The framework understands mobilities across three dimensions: the structural, the symbolic and the non-representational. These dimensions refer to material inequalities between rural and urban places in a global context; symbolic hierarchies that concentrate the resources for ‘youthfulness’ in cities and the affective entanglements between embodied subjec...
- Subjects :
- Economic growth
Sociology and Political Science
Inequality
Mobilities
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05 social sciences
0211 other engineering and technologies
0507 social and economic geography
General Social Sciences
021107 urban & regional planning
Context (language use)
02 engineering and technology
Cultural capital
Space (commercial competition)
Youth studies
Embodied cognition
The Symbolic
Sociology
Life-span and Life-course Studies
050703 geography
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Details
- ISSN :
- 14699680 and 13676261
- Volume :
- 19
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Journal of Youth Studies
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........74be014eba782749e99a8dcf27fefcd5