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Young, Vol. 16, No. 1, 5-26 (2008)
DOI: 10.1177/110330880701600102

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The practice of free-traveling

Young people coping with access in post-Soviet Russia

Dennis Zuev

DENNIS ZUEV is a lecturer at the Faculty of Eastern Languages, Siberian Federal University. Zuev gives lectures in the field of Chinese Culture Studies and Media Studies in Siberian Federal University. He is involved in the research program of Academy of Finland, ‘Living with Difference in Russia — Hybrid Identities and Everyday Racism among Young Rossiyane’. His PhD explored the meanings of political symbols for young people in Russia. His research interests are in the areas of youth studies and mobility studies. Address: Siberian Federal University, Krasnoyarsk, Svobodny pr. 79, 660041, Russia. [email: tungus66@mail.ru]

The article explores the case of youth travel in modern Russia. Free-traveling is conceptualized as a spatial practice which is a set of techniques that allows young people to gain access to foreign space and in foreign space. The issue of free-traveling is problematized in the context of spatial dimension of social exclusion of young people — access and its physical, financial and information aspects. The concept of spatial practice is proposed to explain how young people struggle with information, financial and physical limitations of access. Through the analysis of free-traveling the author intends to show how young people in Russia cope with the issue of access.

Key Words: access • free-traveling • Russia • spatial practice • travel knowledge • youth


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