Growing up, moving out, going on

Im/mobilities and youth transitions in the un/making of friendships

Dados Bibliográficos

ID3978205
AutoresSarah Smith (0000-0003-0857-5039, Nottingham Trent University, autor correspondente), P Kraftl (0000-0002-7915-4808, University of Birmingham)
Ano2024
Volume25
Fascículo10
Páginas1650-1669
Data de publicação2024-11-25
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoSocial & Cultural Geography (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1464-9365 • E-ISSN: 1470-1197
EditoraInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/14649365.2024.2356818
OpenAlexW4398783748
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas7
Referências citadas67

This article examines what we term the ‘un/making’ of friendships: the complex, sometimes non-linear ways in which friendships start, are maintained (or not) and break down (or not). In doing so we seek to open out some of these complexities and explore how they interact with the form of these relationships. Drawing on repeat, in-depth interviews and ethnography with a friendship group of young people in rural community in the English Midlands, this paper theorizes the un/making of friendships through an exploration of young people’s im/mobilities, their emotional attachments and responses to their friendships, and the ways in which their friendships are made, developed, sustained, fractured, and repaired as young people grow up/go on through transitions to adulthood. In doing so, the paper combines and contributes to literatures on geographies of friendships, youthful transitions and temporalities, and im/mobilities, principally through its theorization and exemplification of the ‘un/making’ of friendships

Economic geography · Geography · Mobilities · Sociology · Anthropology · Children's Rights and Participation · Gender Studies · Rural development and sustainability · Youth Education and Societal Dynamics