Adolescent Dilemmas of Landscape, Place, and Religious Experience in a Suffolk Parish

Dados Bibliográficos

ID4476171
AutoresAdrian Cooper (University of London, autor correspondente)
Ano1995
Volume13
Fascículo3
Páginas349-363
Data de publicação1995-06-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoEnvironment and Planning D Society and Space (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0263-7758 • E-ISSN: 1472-3433
EditoraSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1068/d130349
OpenAlexW2109154786
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas2
Referências citadas31

Geographers have traditionally discussed adolescence as an experience of turmoil and anxiety, which is often class and gender-specific. Almost invariably, that analysis has focused on the manifestations and interactions of rebellion, violent conflict, and social disadvantage. In this paper, however, elements of stability and less dramatic activity, as well as themes of change and anxiety within adolescence, are emphasised. The experience of dilemma within adolescence is shown to accommodate a plurality of influences and expressions beyond the relatively narrow experiences of violence and aggression. In order to examine these nuances of adolescent dilemmas, I will pursue a critical discourse analysis of data drawn from an extended programme of indigenous ethnography. The central theme of this analysis will consider the ways in which dilemmas within individual religious experience can inform, and remain informed by, the landscape and place interpretations of ten adolescents living in a Suffolk Parish. These interpretations include references to Christian ecumenical festivals. Consequently, this paper may be of interest to social and cultural geographers, particularly those interested in religio-geographical problems, as well as religious leaders and their lay assistants who arc involved in the instigation and organisation of festivals and similar religious events attended by adolescent people

Aggression · Anxiety · Criminology · Dilemma · Disadvantage · Epistemology · Ethnography · Indigenous · Political science · Sociology · Theme (computing · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Anthropology · Gender Studies · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Law · Psychology · Religious Tourism and Spaces · Social Psychology