Abstract
• Metro is a unique public space in which social order is negotiated with strangers. • Youth experience sexual harassment, labelling and racism by adults on the metro. • The norm of silence makes them vulnerable when dealing with these experiences. • The meanings of these experiences can be analyzed as a form of symbolic violence. • Symbolic violence restricts young people's engagements in the public sphere.
Highlights
The formation of urban social order has been studied since the classic accounts of the modern city (e.g. Park, Simmel, Weber, Goffman; see Ocejo and Tonnelat, 2014)
We examine what young people's accounts about travelling on the metro reveal about their entitlements to using urban spaces (Listerborn, 2015; Maira and Soep, 2005)
We will focus on young people's stories about their encounters with adults, primarily those encounters characterized by ambivalence, and analyze the meanings created within the framework of symbolic violence (Bourdieu, 1977; Bourgois, 2001)
Summary
The formation of urban social order has been studied since the classic accounts of the modern city (e.g. Park, Simmel, Weber, Goffman; see Ocejo and Tonnelat, 2014). This article studies public transport from the perspective of 15- to 17-year-olds, who are often categorized as teenagers Their views have rarely been taken seriously when analyzing urban social order (Ocejo and Tonnelat, 2014, 494; Tironi and Palacios, 2016), leaving us blind to young people's everyday struggles with their entitlement to belong in the city (Maira and Soep, 2005). Hatuka and Toch, 2016; Georgiou, 2013; Brighenti, 2012; Hampton et al, 2010) This framework enables us to reflect on how everyday life experiences relate both to intergenerational power structures and the digitalization of urban spaces, and how these two intertwine. In the concluding section we reflect on the nature of the intergenerational social order in a digitalized media city based on our empirical inquiry
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