ABSTRACT
Chapter 5, ‘Creating Places of Resistance’, uses ethnographic data such as interviews, observations and photos to examine evidence of the impact of the school environment on the students in this study and how they came to identify with certain aspects of it. It also looks at how young people created places where they felt at home in school. The secondary school in which the research took place was undergoing a great deal of change, and the chapter also looks at how this offered opportunities for their resistant behaviour. As well as this, it investigates how different groups within the set of participants marked out certain territories in defence of their own identities.
