ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the cultural geographies of youth. Youth culture is an example of a group that defies conventional (b)ordering mechanisms. They are ‘in-between’ and often across (b)orders. Youths are no longer children, but they are not yet adult. This ‘liminal’ positioning has consequences for the places that they can take and make within the cultural world. In this chapter we will look at some of the ways in which
cultural geography has looked at youth culture. How youths can be angels or devils, goodies or hoodies. We explore how youths have attempted to make place within and beyond conventional (b)ordering mechanisms through practices such as graffiti, free running, and urban exploration. From these explorations we consider how youth culture can influence how we think about, and act in, place.
