ABSTRACT
In this chapter we explore the ways in which access to Singaporean public space, particularly at night, is controlled and surveilled by adults in ways that seek to constrain young people’s movements in and through such spaces. However, we show that control is never absolute but contested in a range of ways (Foucault, 1977). We consider adults’ motivations behind their attempted constriction of young people’s night wanderings and the ways in which young people engage in processes of negotiation, strategization and the use of tactics (de Certeau, 1984) to establish resistive actions so that they can spend time in their neighbourhood public spaces such as streets, neighbourhood shopping malls and void decks1 (see Plate 14.1).
