ABSTRACT
Scholars of intergenerational relations have called for research on the socio-cultural and spatial interactions of differently aged people to pay close attention to the operation of difference amongst and within age groups. This chapter considers how age difference and generational divides are produced through the workings of multiple modes of difference. It argues that the programme exploited class and the lifecourse differences serves to divide the youthful residents of Camp E-Wen-Akee but also elicited instances of caring and support in which age and class is trumped. The 'family' emerged as essential framework at Camp E-Wen-Akee, and as in Vanderbeck's chapter it assumes that new 'family' would be somehow better than the camper's original family. This chapter shows the complex ways in which small age differences, class position, personal histories and place perception strongly influence the shape of young people's lives, even those who share a generation.
