ABSTRACT
In this chapter, we take a closer look at the spatial dimension of young people’s everyday lives: that is to say, their spatialities. We argue that young people’s spatialities are increasingly and concurrently shaped and constituted by multiple features and their interrelations. Consequently, young people’s spatialities are not shaped and determined by one specific dominant feature and cannot be described by one particular model. Instead, they have become increasingly multi-layered and complex, for they are impacted by different features that simultaneously overlap, become intertwined, and are made relevant within these spatialities. Our findings indicate the recurrence of four features across our sample of meta-analyzed studies that prominently impact young people’s spatialities throughout diverse geographic contexts: (1) circumambient spaces around the home, (2) the insular structure of multiple dispersed spaces, (3) spatial practices of being mobile, and (4) virtual spaces. Throughout the chapter, we elaborate on each of the features and contend that, against the background of the refiguration of spaces, their interactions result in the pluralization and heterogenization of young people’s spatialities. Subsequently, we draw on three representative case studies from our sample to further illustrate the interplay between the features and the multiplicity of young people’s spatialities.
