Gray Debra, Manning Rachel
Department of Psychology, University of Winchester, UK.
Br J Soc Psychol. 2014 Dec;53(4):640-55. doi: 10.1111/bjso.12055. Epub 2013 Dec 9.
Social psychologists have become increasingly concerned with examining the ways in which social practices are interrelated with their location. Critical perspectives have highlighted the traditional lack of attention given to both the collective aspects of spatial identities, together with the discursive practices that construct the relationships between people and places. In this article, we draw together the developing discursive work on place with work on children's geographies, in order to examine young people's accounts of spatial regulation. Adopting a discursive approach to the analysis of focus group discussion, we illustrate a variety of concerns managed in relation to spatial practices by 41 young people living in a large city in the South of England. Our findings suggest that everyday use of public space by young people is constructed at a nexus of competing concerns around childhood/adulthood, freedom, and citizenship, and illustrate the dynamic nature of place, and its regulation, as a resource for constructing identities.
社会心理学家越来越关注研究社会实践与其所处位置相互关联的方式。批判性视角强调了传统上对空间身份的集体层面以及构建人与地方之间关系的话语实践缺乏关注。在本文中，我们将关于地方的发展中的话语研究与儿童地理学研究结合起来，以考察年轻人对空间规管的描述。通过采用话语分析方法来分析焦点小组讨论，我们阐述了居住在英格兰南部一个大城市的41名年轻人在空间实践方面所处理的各种问题。我们的研究结果表明，年轻人对公共空间的日常使用是在围绕童年/成年、自由和公民身份的相互竞争的关注点的交汇处构建的，并说明了地方及其规管作为构建身份的资源的动态性质。
