eprintid: 4557
rev_number: 4
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dir: disk0/00/00/45/57
datestamp: 2024-07-05 14:12:58
lastmod: 2024-07-05 14:12:58
status_changed: 2024-07-05 14:12:58
type: thesis
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sword_depositor: 1
creators_name: Bouwer, Aize
creators_id: S4077369
creators_email: Ajcbouwer@gmail.com
title: Lived neighbourhood experiences in Hoogkerk: Young adults talking about their neighbourhood
ispublished: unpub
full_text_status: public
abstract: Young people’s relationships with their deprived neighbourhoods are understudied. Little research focuses on how young adults perceive neighbourhood strengths and limitations, and how this often varies from the hegemonic discourse. 
Therefore, this study adds to the neighbourhood perceptions and experiences of young adults aged 18-24, who have lived or still live in Noord and Zuid-Hoogkerk. Through participant-led walking semi-structured in-depth interviews and photo elicitation in Groningen, The Netherlands, thematic analysis was conducted to uncover patterns, commonalities, and differences between participants’ perceptions and experiences. Young adults perceived little problems in their neighbourhood and often pointed to neighbourhood resources, thus attaching affective meaning to their neighbourhood. Both the social and physical neighbourhood characteristics played a part in their development of positive and negative possible future selves. Little social inequalities were found between Noord and Zuid-Hoogkerk, where the place identity was perceived as homogeneous between the different neighbourhoods. Policymakers should include young people in government policies, more often by discussing perceived neighbourhood problems and resources with them, not just for them.
date: 2024
pages: 33
thesis_type: bachelor
degree_programme: SGP
tutors_name: Venema, J.W.
tutors_organization: Fac. Ruimtelijke wetenschappen, Basiseenheid Demografie
tutors_email: J.W.Venema@rug.nl
security: public
keywords_local: Socio-spatial Inequalities
keywords_local: Theory of Possible Selves
keywords_local: Place Identity
keywords_local: Neighbourhood Familiarity
language_iso: en
date_issued: 2024-07-05
citation:   Bouwer, Aize  (2024) Lived neighbourhood experiences in Hoogkerk: Young adults talking about their neighbourhood.  Bachelor thesis.   
document_url: https://frw.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/4557/1/Bachelor-Thesis-s4077369.pdf