Abstract This paper draws on qualitative visual research with 26 teenagers and their parents in East and North London to explore negotiated aspects of domestic space in teenage bedrooms. In addition to examining how collaboration and compromise had helped to shape these spaces, it focuses especially on a key component that contributed to teenagers’ material culture at home: that of presents and present-giving. Gifts were a ubiquitous feature of the study’s teenage bedrooms. Engaging with the reflexive accounts of teenagers and their parents, as well as the extensive literature on gifts, the article asks how, and to what effect, presents contributed to these material and social worlds. The article argues that in the individualized space of the teenage bedroom, presents can be seen as vectors of co-construction, which, together with other evidence of collaboration, help support less atomized and more relational conceptions of personal identity and selfhood.

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共建空间与礼物的力量

摘要 本文对伦敦东部和北部的 26 名青少年及其父母进行定性视觉研究，以探讨青少年卧室家庭空间的协商方面。除了研究合作和妥协如何帮助塑造这些空间之外，它还特别关注对青少年家庭物质文化做出贡献的一个关键组成部分：礼物和礼物。礼物是该书房青少年卧室的一个普遍特征。文章结合青少年及其父母的反思性叙述，以及大量关于礼物的文献，询问礼物如何以及对这些物质和社会世界做出了贡献。文章认为，在青少年卧室的个性化空间中，礼物可以被视为共建的载体，其中，