Geographies of Children, Youth and Families: An International Perspective

ISBN-13: 9780415563840 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 320 str.

Louise Holt

Opis

This edited collection brings together international experts from the vibrant and growing field of geographies of children, youth and families. Designed as an introduction to the topic, this book provides an overview of current conceptual and theoretical debates surrounding geographies of children, youth and families, and gives a wide range of examples of cutting-edge research from a variety of national contexts across the globe. The theme of 'disentangling the socio-spatial contexts of young people and/or their families' advances debates in the field by emphasising the context of young people's social agency. Geographies of Children, Youth and Families is an invaluable course text for undergraduate and postgraduate students of geography and the social sciences, as well as being of interest to students and practitioners of education, youth work, social policy, and social work.

Spis treści

1. Introduction: Geographies of Children, Youth and Families, Disentangling the Socio-Spatial Contexts of Young People Across the Globalising World  2. Geographies of Children, Youth and Families: Defining Achievements, Debating the Agenda  Part 1: Bodies and Identities  3. Foucault's Children  4. Building a Sense of Community: Children, Bodies and Social Cohesion  5. Shutting the Bathroom Door: Parents, Young Teenagers and the Negotiation of Bodily Boundaries at Home  Part 2: The Home, Family and Intergenerational Relationships  6. The Search for Belonging: Youth Identities and Transitions to Adulthood in an African Refugee Context  7. Travellers, Housing and the (re)Construction of Communities  8. On Not Going Home at the End of the Day: Spatialised Discourses of Family Life in Single Location Home/Workplaces  9. Geographies of 'Family' Life: Interdependent Relationships Across the Life Course in the Context of Problem Internet Gambling  10. Negotiating Children's Outdoor Spatial Freedom: Portraits of Three Parisian Families  Part 3: Cities and/or Public Spaces  11. Children Living in the City: Gendered Experiences and Desires in Spain and Mexico  12. Dredging History: the Price of Preservation at La Jolla's Children's Pool  13. Filling the Family's Transport Gap in Sub-Saharan Africa: Young People and Load Carrying in Ghana  14. Adult Anxieties Versus Young People's Resistance: Negotiating Access to Public Space in Singapore  15. Socio-Spatial Experiences of Young People under Anti-social Behaviour Legislation in England and Wales  Part 4: Institutional Spaces  16. Tears and Laughter at a Sure Start Centre: Preschool Geographies, Policy Contexts  17. Social and Educational Inequalities in English State Schools: Exploring the Understandings of Urban White Middle Class Children  18. De/re-institutionalising Deafness through the Mainstreaming of Deaf Education in the Republic of Ireland  19. 'The Teachers seemed a bit Obsessive with Health and Safety': Fieldwork Risk and the Social Construction of Childhood

O autorze

Louise Holt is Lecturer in Human Geography at Loughborough University, and a member of the Centre for Research in Identity, Community, Society. Her research interests focus on geographies of children, young people, families and disability, and socio-spatial processes of exclusion, inclusion, embodiment and identity, and social capital. Her work has been published in numerous journals, including Progress in Human Geography, Environment and Planning and Children’s Geographies.