"You can't be up there" - youth cultural participation and appropriation of space

Abstract: This article investigates the relationship between youth cultural practices and young people's spatial appropriation. For this purpose, we analyse case studies into groups of young people involved in two forms of practices that are marked by particular perceptions of the (urban) space: two Parkour groups and a Scouts group. The questions we are dealing with concern the way to which young members of these groups are appropriating ‘free space’ through participating in activities like the Scouts or Parkour. Furthermore, this article also explores important questions concerning processes of how young people’s participation in urban areas should be understood and what consequences this understanding has for youth policy

Object Details

• Alternative title: "Ihr dürft da nicht hoch" - Jugendkulturelle Partizipation und Aneignung von Raum
• Location: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• Extent: Online-Ressource
• Language: Englisch
• Notes: Veröffentlichungsversion ; begutachtet (peer reviewed) ; In: Diskurs Kindheits- und Jugendforschung / Discourse. Journal of Childhood and Adolescence Research ; 14 (2019) 1 ; 5-18

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (where): Mannheim
• (who): SSOAR, GESIS – Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften e.V.
• (when): 2019
• Creator: Andersson, Björn ; Mengilli, Yağmur ; Pohl, Axel ; Reutlinger, Christian

Further information

• DOI: 10.3224/diskurs.v14i1.01
• URN: urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-61908-2
• Rights: Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
• Last update: 15.08.2025, 7:27 AM CEST