TY - JOUR
T1 - Negotiating spatial identities
T2 - Mobile perspectives on street life in uganda
AU - van Blerk, Lorraine
PY - 2005
Y1 - 2005
N2 - Previous geographical research with street children has principally focused on their micro-geographies in the city. This paper draws on nomadic and episodic processes of homeless mobility, to explore street children's geographies from a wider social, spatial and temporal perspective. By examining street life in Kampala, Uganda as a continued negotiation of public/private and street/non-street locations, the fluid nature of street children's identity is illustrated. Over time, movement between spaces, such as divergent city niches, institutions, homes and other towns, is often subject to power relations operating in street/non-street spaces with each requiring conformity to a different set of values and behaviours. The paper demonstrates how this results in children's street identity changing as they move through the street life path.
AB - Previous geographical research with street children has principally focused on their micro-geographies in the city. This paper draws on nomadic and episodic processes of homeless mobility, to explore street children's geographies from a wider social, spatial and temporal perspective. By examining street life in Kampala, Uganda as a continued negotiation of public/private and street/non-street locations, the fluid nature of street children's identity is illustrated. Over time, movement between spaces, such as divergent city niches, institutions, homes and other towns, is often subject to power relations operating in street/non-street spaces with each requiring conformity to a different set of values and behaviours. The paper demonstrates how this results in children's street identity changing as they move through the street life path.
KW - Homelessness
KW - Identity
KW - Mobility
KW - Street children
KW - Uganda
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=33751416400&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/14733280500037091
DO - 10.1080/14733280500037091
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:33751416400
VL - 3
SP - 5
EP - 21
JO - Children's Geographies
JF - Children's Geographies
SN - 1473-3285
IS - 1
ER -