Spatial avoidance or spatial confidence? Young people's agency in the active negotiation of risk and safety in public space

Children's Geographies

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 181-195

  van der Burgt, Danielle ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

agency; public space; risk; safety; strategies; teenage girls and boys

Indexed keywords

EID: 84922434515     PISSN: 14733285     EISSN: 14733277     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14733285.2013.828455     Document Type: Article

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