Geographies of Young People: The Morally Contested Spaces of Identity

ISBN-13: 9780415223959 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 228 str.

Professor Stuart C. Aitken

Opis

This book traces some of 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. The book challenges popular myths that evoke general notions of childhood as a natural stage in the development towards adulthood. In addition, the book argues that new theories need to articulate the interdependent relations between material societal transformations and the social constructions of childhood.

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