ABSTRACT
The geography of youth cultures provides us with an illustration of some of the issues associated with what Louis Marin (1984) has described as utopics. Utopics are a type of spatial play whereby a utopian outlook on society and the moral order that it wishes to project are translated into spatial practice through the attachment of ideas about the good society onto representations of particular places. Marin’s best illustrations of this utopics can be found in his reading of Disneyland (1984) and America (1992). In this chapter I want to consider the geography of one particular youth culture, New Age Travellers, and their contested utopics of the British countryside.
