ABSTRACT
This chapter concludes the book by reflecting on the key implications of thinking about youth in terms of spatiality for the future of youth research. The assertion of youth as a spatial process offers a new research agenda for youth studies that breaks out of the metrocentric focus on the global north that currently dominates the field, and offers a possible starting point for a revision of epistemological divisions that separate young people in different parts of the world and exclude the experiences of most of the world’s youth. This book also offers a way of creating interdisciplinary research agendas in the study of youth that positions youth research as a critical vantage point for interrogating the dynamics of capitalist globalisation. The chapter concludes that the spatiality of youth is the production of irreducibly heterogeneous difference that is governed through the biopolitical technology of universal developmental time. Examining the spatialities through which young people are formed as workers, political subjects and cultural participants shows the dissolution of linear temporalities in young people’s lives throughout the world. Instead, youth emerges as the non-linear production of difference within mutable and unpredictable relations of distance and proximity created by the movement of capital and culture in a global context.
