Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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5074602 | Geoforum | 2010 | 11 Pages |
Abstract
The everyday implications of a volatile geopolitical climate are increasingly recognised, but far less is known about how people's emotional geographies are affected by geopolitical change. This paper offers a critical examination of how some young people in different parts of the world navigate fears and hopes that might be considered 'global' in nature, and those that might be considered 'everyday'. We report from participatory research conducted with young people from a range of ethnic and cultural backgrounds living in New Zealand and the United Kingdom. We examine how personal fears and hopes intersect with wider anxieties about youth, urban crime and terrorism. The research suggests that global-everyday emotions are not separated out in young people's analyses. They are critically reflexive about wider discourses of fear, while undertaking the day to day business of navigating what are sometimes challenging emotional topographies.
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Authors
Rachel Pain, Ruth Panelli, Sara Kindon, Jo Little,