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

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04/05/2019
Author
Botterill, Kate
Hopkins, Peter
Sanghera, Gurchathen Singh
Funder
Arts and Humanities Research Council
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Keywords
Ontological security
Young people
Islamophobia
Everyday geopolitics
Embodiment
Critical securities
JZ International relations
H Social Sciences
HM Sociology
BF Psychology
3rd-NDAS
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Abstract
This paper uses a framework of 'ontological security' to discuss the psychosocial strategies of self-securitisation employed by ethnic and religious minority young people in Scotland. We argue that broad discourses of securitisation 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 racialised, gendered and religious landscapes.
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Botterill , K , Hopkins , P & Sanghera , G S 2019 , ' Young people’s everyday securities : pre-emptive and pro-active strategies towards ontological security in Scotland ' , Social and Cultural Geography , vol. 20 , no. 4 , pp. 465-484 . https://doi.org/10.1080/14649365.2017.1346197
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Social and Cultural Geography
Status
Peer reviewed
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1080/14649365.2017.1346197
ISSN
1464-9365
Type
Journal article
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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/ licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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This work was supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Council [grant number AH/K000594/1].
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http://hdl.handle.net/10023/11095

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