‘It was like walking inside myself’
Youngwomen’s Practices of Domestication in the Gendered City
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21377288 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Valentina Cuzzocrea (0000-0002-7467-8020), Fabio Bertoni (0000-0003-2943-6636), Giuliana Mandich (0000-0002-2094-0011) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 92-93 - LXVII |
| Pages | 47-63 |
| Publication date | 2023-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Quaderni di Sociologia (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0033-4952 • E-ISSN: 2421-5848 |
| Publisher | OpenEdition (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.4000/12ej8 |
| OpenAlex | W4403269031 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 32 |
The recent Covid-19 pandemic has irrupted into youth’s lives and their relations to the city abruptly. Young people, in particular, make use of public space to forge relationships with peers for them significant: in this sense the city is a key source of identity in their journey towards adulthood. The city can be thought of as a space of their own, in a continuous process of co-construction of “their” city on the one hand, and the expression of “their” desires on the other. Accordingly, young people domesticate the city. Paying attention to the familiarity bonds that emerge against commercialization and commodification of public spaces, in this contribution we draw from a research project which investigated representations of young people in Cagliari, Sardinia. For this contribution we look in-depth at a photovoice conducted in the first half of 2021 with a feminist collective, whose activists were high school final-year students. The agency that these young women explicate in telling the episodes of gender-based micro-violence in the city, at the intersection between patriarchy and adult-centrism, articulates along a playful, but also minded, relationship with public space, one that is attentive, responsive, transformative, and well aware of their positioning. Experimenting with photovoice allows us to disentangle a youthful, but not ingenuous, relationship with the city that reiterates the need for proximity and a feeling of human compassion that social distancing imposed by the pandemic has reproposed in its urgency
Art · Biology · Domestication · Geography · Literature · Reflexive pronoun · Sociology · Ecology · Gender Politics and Representation · Gender Roles and Identity Studies · Gender Studies · Gender, Feminism, and Media
Communicative Constructions and the Refiguration of Spaces
The Sociology of Space
Beyond Unwanted Sound
Using Photovoice to Address Gender-Based Violence
Life and Words
Geographical frontiers of gendered violence
The Social Construction of Space and Gender
When Girls Walk
Domesticating” the City
The Materiality of Territorial Production
Domesticating Prostitution
Domesticating Spaces
Gender, Perceptions of Safety and Strategic Responses among Ohio University Students
Gender, urban space, and the right to everyday life
Affective atmospheres
Street Performance and the City
Youth Participation in Photovoice as a Strategy for Community Change
Material Matters
The City as Experiential Space
Vorkuta is the Capital of the World
The Constitution of Space
F**k Rape
On Territorology
Reconstructing the authenticity of place
| Unique citing works | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |