TY - JOUR AU - Tani, Sirpa PY - 2011/09/01 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Oikeus oleskella? Hengailua kauppakeskuksen näkyvillä ja näkymättömillä rajoilla JF - Alue ja Ympäristö JA - A&Y VL - 40 IS - 2 SE - Artikkelit DO - UR - https://aluejaymparisto.journal.fi/article/view/64688 SP - 3-16 AB - <p>In shopping centres, boundaries between public and<br>private spaces are often blurred. In this article, the<br>interpretations of appropriate ways to use space<br>are discussed by analysing both formal and informal<br>regulations considering young people’s hanging out.<br>The Kamppi shopping centre, located in the city centre<br>of Helsinki, is used as a case in this research. The<br>empirical material consists of young people’s interviews,<br>researchers’ observations and of some interviews<br>conducted with representatives of the shopping<br>centre and the police. Young people’s presence<br>has caused confrontations between the surveillance<br>personnel and the young people themselves. In this<br>article, visible means to exclude certain people from<br>the shopping centre are investigated and some more<br>hidden codes of conduct are analysed. Strategies<br>of exclusion have been justified by the size of the<br>crowds of young people, the noise they make and<br>the space they take from other people. The article<br>is concluded by raising questions of young people’s<br>position in the contemporary society where their<br>free mobility and their independent use of space<br>are often problematic. Hanging out challenges the<br>idea of scheduling young people’s free time. By doing<br>so, it also highlights the meaning of social interaction<br>in the process of identity construction in young<br>people’s lives.</p> ER -