Intergenerational Space by Robert Vanderbeck, Nancy Worth

By Robert Vanderbeck, Nancy Worth

Intergenerational area offers perception into the remodeling relationships among more youthful and older contributors of latest societies. The bankruptcy choice brings jointly students from worldwide so as to handle urgent questions either concerning the nature of up to date generational divisions in addition to the complicated ways that contributors of alternative generations are (and could be) interested in each one other’s lives. those questions contain: how do specific varieties of areas and spatial preparations (e.g. towns, neighbourhoods, associations, rest websites) facilitate and restrict intergenerational touch and encounters? What techniques and areas impression the intergenerational negotiation and contestation of values, ideals, and social reminiscence, generating styles of either continuity and alter? And if generational separation and segregation are in reality major social difficulties throughout quite a number contexts―as an important physique of analysis and statement attests―how can this be ameliorated? The chapters during this assortment make unique contributions to those debates drawing on unique examine from Belgium, China, Finland, Poland, Senegal, Singapore, Tanzania, Uganda, the USA and the United Kingdom.

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2011; Min et al. 2012). Much of this previous research focuses on the context of the family; the chapters in this part include the family but also make an important contribution to the literature by considering how values, beliefs and politics are intergenerationally negotiated and contested within diverse contexts. In Chapter 10, Kirsi Pauliina Kallio develops the concept of ‘intergenerational recognition’ for understanding Finnish young people’s political agency in everyday life. Building on Hannah Anendt’s work in political philosophy, Kallio uses ethnographic methods to explore different contexts of intergenerational recognition, including home and school, demonstrating that children are both subjects and objects of recognition.

In the next section, we introduce the thematic organization of the collection and explore in more depth the specific contributions of the 21 chapters of the volume that follow, reflecting on how they serve – both individually and collectively – to advance current discussions about intergenerational space. Thematic organization and chapter contributions This collection brings together a diverse group of scholars who are seeking to address pressing questions about both the nature of contemporary generational divisions as well as the complex ways in which members of different generations are (and can be) involved in each other’s lives.

While many shared spaces have been created, few have been evaluated and this chapter offers useful policy suggestions for making the most out of these initiatives. Helen Lomax’s work concludes the part, extending the idea of shared space to community research and the ‘ethnographic encounter’, detailing a project where both younger and older people worked together to study their local neighbourhood (Chapter 5). In positioning the research process as an opportunity for intergenerational dialogue, Lomax makes a nuanced argument for the recognition of how different voices are heard/silenced in research.

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