The Geographies of Young People: The Morally Contested Spaces of Identity

ISBN-13: 9780415223942 / Angielski / Twarda / 2001 / 232 str.

Professor Stuart C. Aitken; C. Aitken Stuart

Opis

The Geographies of Young People traces the changing scientific and societal notions of what it is to be a young person, and argues that there is a need to rethink how we view childhood spaces, child development and the politics of growing up.
This book brings coherency to the growing field of children's geographies by arguing that although most of it does not prescribe solutions to the moral assault against young people, it nonetheless offers appropriate insights into difference and diversity, and how young people are constructed.
Other books in the series:
Culture/Place/Health (forthcoming)
Seduction of Place (forthcoming)
Celtic Geographies (forthcoming) Timespace
Bodies
Mind and Body Spaces
Children's Geographies
Leisure/Tourism Geographies
Thinking Space
Geopolitical Traditions
Embodied Geographies
Animal Spaces, Beastly Places
Closet Space
Clubbing
De-centering Sexualities
Entanglements of Power.

Recenzje

This book is likely to be a key text for those interested in studying, teaching and researching the geographies of childhood. - Progress in Human Geography

What Aitken does well is to highlight the social-spatial processes embedded in the moral foundations in the institutions of thought and theory - Mary E Thomas, Environment and Planning

'A useful book for anyone interested in exploring the psychoanalytic and feminist theories which challenge general notions of childhood' - Gender, Place & Culture

Spis treści

Chapter 1 PUTTING YOUNG PEOPLE IN THEIR PLACE; Chapter 2 FROM THE GROUND UP; Chapter 3 LEARNING THROUGH THE BODY; Chapter 4 DRAPED OUTSIDE IN AND HUNG INSIDE OUT; Chapter 5 MATERIAL TRANSFORMATIONS; Chapter 6 DESTINED TO SUFFER THE MOST; Chapter 7 A SPACE TO PLAY AND A TIME FOR JUSTICE;

O autorze

Stuart C. Aitken is Professor of Geography, at San Diego State University.