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Young people’s everyday securities: pre-emptive and pro-active strategies toward ontological security in Scotland

Botterill, Kate; Hopkins, Peter; Sanghera, Gurchathen Singh

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Kate Botterill

Peter Hopkins

Gurchathen Singh Sanghera



Abstract

This paper uses a framework of ‘ontological security’ to discuss the psycho-social strategies of self-securitization employed by ethnic and religious minority young people in Scotland. We argue that broad discourses of securitization are present in the everyday risks and threats that young people encounter. In response and as resistance young people employ pre-emptive and pro-active strategies to preserve ontological security. Yet, these strategies are fraught with ambivalence and contradiction as young people withdraw from social worlds or revert to essentialist positions when negotiating complex fears and anxieties. Drawing on feminist geographies of security the paper presents a multi-scalar empirical analysis of young people’s everyday securities, connecting debates on youth and intimacy-geopolitics with the social and cultural geographies of young people, specifically work that focuses upon young people’s negotiations of racialized, gendered and religious landscapes.

Citation

Botterill, K., Hopkins, P., & Sanghera, G. S. (2017). Young people’s everyday securities: pre-emptive and pro-active strategies toward ontological security in Scotland. Social and Cultural Geography, 1-20. https://doi.org/10.1080/14649365.2017.1346197

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date May 4, 2017
Online Publication Date Jun 26, 2017
Publication Date Jun 26, 2017
Deposit Date May 15, 2017
Publicly Available Date Mar 28, 2024
Journal Social and Cultural Geography
Print ISSN 1464-9365
Electronic ISSN 1470-1197
Publisher Routledge
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Pages 1-20
DOI https://doi.org/10.1080/14649365.2017.1346197
Keywords Geography, Planning and Development; Cultural Studies
Public URL http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/845348

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© 2017 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/
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