23 februari - Call for abstracts! till NYRIS session Place, Space and Mobilities in Young People’s Everyday Life
What: Call for abstracts to the session Place, Space and Mobilities in Young People’s Everyday Life
When: Deadline for Abstracts, 23 February 2026
Where: NYRIS 2026, October 20 - 22 at Stockholm University, Sweden
Session Organisers: Danielle Ekman Ladru, Stockholm University; Tanja Joelsson, Stockholm University; Susanna Areschoug, Stockholm University; Linda Fridén Syrjäpalo, Stockholm University; Johanna Wallin, Stockholm University; Kristina Larsson, Stockholm University/VTI.
Background and Scope
Research interested in the role of space, place and mobility in young people’s lives is rapidly expanding. Ignited by the spatial turn in the social sciences followed by the mobility turn, youth research has begun to engage with theories of relational space and mobility. For example, research in children’s geographies highlights how young people’s experiences of urban spaces, play, learning, and mobility differ from adult norms and are deeply shaped by relational, emotional, and material dynamics. Theoretical work in mobilities emphasises movement as a socially meaningful practice embedded in broader socio-spatial processes (mobilities turn), as well as how mobilities are interdependent and relational.
We invite abstracts that critically engage with the spatialities and mobilities of young people’s everyday lives, and deepen our understanding of how young people move through, inhabit, and make meaning of the spaces and places of their everyday lives. Drawing from the spatial turn in the social sciences and the growing field of youth geographies, this session seeks to create an interdisciplinary forum for discussing how movement, place, space, and social practices intersect in the everyday lives of young people.
We welcome innovative empirical, conceptual, methodological, and practice-oriented perspectives that address, but are not limited to, one or more of the following themes: Young people’s spaces, and mobilities in different arenas, such as the home, the school and other institutional spaces, or in the digital sphere. Social, cultural and material conditions shaping youth spatialities and mobilities, including policy and planning. Everyday mobilities and mobile routines of youth in urban, suburban, and rural environments, e.g. how young people navigate, resist, or transform space through mobility. Embodied, imagined and social dimensions of movement. Creative methods for exploring youth spatialities and im/mobilities. Inequalities in relation to spaces and mobility, including e.g. socio-economic, gendered, racialised, and ability-based differences.
We encourage submissions from scholars across children and youth studies, gender studies, geography, urban studies, sociology, education, planning, and related fields whose work engages critically with young people’s spatial and mobile lives.
Submission Instructions
Please submit an abstract of a maximum 250 words by to tanja.joelsson@buv.su.se and danielle.ekman.ladru@buv.su.se. Include title, institutional affiliation, and indicate that you are interested in presenting your work in the themed session.
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