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Rural youth culture: sheds in The Netherlands

Rural youth culture: sheds in The Netherlands. Tialda Haartsen & Dirk Strijker. Cultural Geography Faculty of Spatial Sciences Groningen University The Netherlands. www.keeteexterveen.nl. www.dedoellozecaravan.tk. Defining sheds.

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Rural youth culture: sheds in The Netherlands

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  1. Rural youth culture:sheds in The Netherlands Tialda Haartsen & Dirk Strijker Cultural Geography Faculty of Spatial Sciences Groningen University The Netherlands

  2. www.keeteexterveen.nl www.dedoellozecaravan.tk Defining sheds • Places for young rural people, organized by themselves, to meet and do all kinds of activities (listening to music, drinking beer, chilling out, and socializing) in groups of 5-20 persons with ages of 13-22 years old • Sheds, caravans, parts of barns, etc • Illegal or tolerated (‘gedoogd’) • estimated number: • 1,500 (STAP, 2004) • 3,000 (Kon. Horeca Ned., 2006)

  3. Sheds and rural youth • Literature on rural youth: educational and and economic position of youth is dominant • The attractivity of the rural for young people decreases with increasing age • The rural offers options for a place of your own, and it offers not so many other options for entertainment

  4. Main questions • Do sheds have distinctive geographical characteristics, such as regional differentiations in occurrence, or in the behaviour and activities of their members? • Are there specific sheds-culture(s) with specific rules and symbols, including and excluding certain groups of rural youngsters?

  5. Geography of sheds; the geography of ‘In-between’ • Geographies of home -> escape from parents but not too far.. • Geographies of street/hanging out -> although not in public but in private space • Geographies of party-ing -> but not in disco’s or nightclubs

  6. Aspects of the research • Macro-geographies (distribution) • Activities • Inclusion & exclusion • Gender • Symbols

  7. ‘Shed-densities’ per municipality, 2007 (n=253)

  8. Explanation of the distribution • Which variables do explain the density?

  9. Correlations shed-densities & variables • @@correlaties met andere aspecten.

  10. Shed-symbols • Analysis of shed-names • Analysis of websites • Analysis of shed-logo’s • Analysis of ‘merchandize’ (t-shirts, lighters, caps)

  11. Shed names • Reference in name to 8 attributes

  12. References in shed-names to … (n=277) • type of building 50% • e.g. het Jumphokke, Moskeet, ‘t Zolderke • dialect 32% • e.g. Keet Onwies, Ruw en Onbesoest, Moat FM • region 21% • e.g. Keet-Froubuurt, Metslabier, Keet Eexterveen • alcohol 16% • e.g. Tapvat, ‘t Krattie, Tankstation, Zoeptent Uffelte • countryside and agriculture 7% • e.g. Maiswichte, ‘t Kalverhokke, Superboeren Zuidwolde

  13. Shed websites • Beer is everywhere (Heineken logo as button) • Location is vague • Strong exposure of individual members (name, school, work, hobbies, favourite drinks) → individual is probably more important than the group → sheds play a role in the individual growth process

  14. Inclusion & exclusion • Prominent place for the members on the website stells something about ‘who’s in and who’s out’. • Intwerviews show strong sentiments against the urban part of the Netherlands, and even against youth from nearby urban centres • To be elaborated

  15. Concluding remarks • Distinctive geographical spread • Landscape/society aspects • missing: Other aspects? • Sheds fit into the idea of ‘a place of your own’ • Identify with place and region, not with rural. • But: anti-The Hague, anti-urban, anti-authority • addition of interviews shed-members needed • Drinking is important, is not included in the name, but is dominant in the websites • Exposure of individual members: the shed as a vehicle to grow-up?

  16. Tialda haartsen/Dirk Strijker – Ru Groningen Sheds in the Netherlands

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