The Ethnopoetics of Space and Transformation: Young People's Engagement, Activism and Aesthetics

ISBN-13: 9781138212947 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 218 str.

Professor Stuart C. Aitken

Opis

Aitken examines key life-changing events to look at the interconnections between space, politics, change and emotions. Analyzing the intricate spatial complexities of these events, he explores the emotions that undergird the ways change takes place, and the perplexing spatial politics that almost always accompany transformations. Aitken positions young people as effective agents of change without romanticizing their political involvement as fantasy and unrealistic dreaming. Going further, he suggests that it is the emotional palpability of youth engagement and activism that makes it so potent and productive.

Spis treści

Contents: Preface; Birthing the poetics of space and transformation; Ethnopoetics; Disrupting spatial competencies and affordances; Development, figured worlds and affective ecologies; Schoolyards, violence and landscapes of revolution; Children’s work, civic responsibilities and refashioning citizenship; Poets and stateless children; The poetic aesthetics of children’s politics; References; Index.

O autorze

Stuart C. Aitken is June Burnett Chair of Children’s and Family Geographies, Director of the Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies of Youth and Space (ISYS) and Professor of Geography at San Diego State University, USA.