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    ‘We don't enjoy nature like that’: youth identity and lifestyle in the countryside

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    Authors
    King, Katherine
    Church, Andrew
    Affiliation
    Bournemouth University
    University of Brighton
    Issue Date
    2013-03-24
    Subjects
    young people
    lifestyle
    identity
    leisure
    countryside
    nature
    
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    It is claimed that contact with nature and the countryside can benefit young people's health and wellbeing. There are concerns, however, that not only do young people encounter significant barriers to accessing these resources as part of their leisure experiences, but also they generally have less direct experience of nature. Research into youth leisure activities and their associated cultural dimensions suggests performance and enactment are an integral feature of related youth lifestyles. This paper argues that young people's engagement with nature and the countryside still remains only partly understood because past studies have not examined these interactions as part of a wider process of developing lifestyles and identities linked to youth leisure activities. Presenting the findings of primary qualitative research involving a group of young people who live in urban and rural areas and who make regular use of countryside space for mountain biking, this paper shows the ways in which young people express their relations to nature and the countryside. By providing a specific focus on young people's countryside leisure experience within the framework of identity and lifestyle the paper offers a more holistic understanding of how young people interact with the countryside exploring both the distinctive elements of the spaces offered by the countryside to develop symbolic ownership over space and the way in which, through embodied experiences and knowledges, the nature associated with these spaces is given meaning by young people.
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    King K, Church A (2013) '‘We don't enjoy nature like that’: youth identity and lifestyle in the countryside', Journal of Rural Studies, 31 , pp.67-76.
    Publisher
    Elsevier
    Journal
    Journal of Rural Studies
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10547/625149
    DOI
    10.1016/j.jrurstud.2013.02.004
    Additional Links
    https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0743016713000132
    Type
    Article
    Language
    en
    ISSN
    0743-0167
    ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
    10.1016/j.jrurstud.2013.02.004
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