Parallel Lives on the Plaza: Young Dutch Women of Turkish and Moroccan Descent and their Feelings of Comfort and Control on Rotterdam’s Schouwburgplein
| Autor: | Spierings, B., van Aalst, I., van Melik, Rianne, SGPL Stadsgeografie, Social Urban Transitions |
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| Přispěvatelé: | SGPL Stadsgeografie, Social Urban Transitions |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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Cultural Studies
Turkish media_common.quotation_subject Geography Planning and Development Immigration Control (management) 0211 other engineering and technologies 0507 social and economic geography 02 engineering and technology Space (commercial competition) public space diversity Public space Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) comfort Sociology immigrant descent media_common youth Schouwburgplein 05 social sciences 021107 urban & regional planning Gender studies language.human_language Urban Studies Feeling Tourism Leisure and Hospitality Management language 050703 geography control Social control Diversity (politics) |
| Zdroj: | Space and Culture, 19(2), 150. SAGE Publications Inc. |
| ISSN: | 1206-3312 |
| Popis: | In the last two decades, many city center plazas in the Netherlands have been redeveloped to become more attractive “meeting spaces” and not merely profitable “market places.” This article analyzes the use and experience of Schouwburgplein, an urban plaza in Rotterdam, as meeting space by young Dutch women of Turkish and Moroccan descent. Our analysis reveals a paradoxical interplay between “social comfort” and “social control” in public space. To feel comfortable, the young women avoid interaction with non-befriended young men of immigrant descent and use the plaza in company of friends and family, mostly young females of immigrant descent. However, being among known and unknown youth of Turkish and Moroccan descent on the plaza also implies subjecting oneself to uncomfortable social control. Moreover, the young women of Turkish and Moroccan descent seem occupied with being part of what they consider “their” youth group and some even reveal indifference toward “others” on Schouwburgplein—resulting in “parallel lives” on the plaza. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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