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Geographies of children and young people is a rapidly emerging sub-discipline within human geography. There is now a critical mass of established academic work, key names within academia, growing numbers of graduate students and expanding numbers of university level taught courses. There are also professional training programmes at national scales and in international contexts that work specifically with children and young people. In addition to a productive journal of Children's Geographies, there's a range of monographs, textbooks and edited collections focusing on children and young people published by all the major academic presses then there is a substantive body of work on younger people within human geography and active authors and researchers working within international contexts to warrant a specific Major Reference Work on children's and young people's geographies.
The volumes and sections are structured by themes, which then reflect the broader geographical locations of the research.
List of contents
· Age Identity and the Geographies of Children and Young People
· Ethnic Options of Mixed Race Young People in Britain
· Early Childhood Subjectivities, Inequities, and Imaginitive Play
· Bus Stops and Toilets: Identifying Spaces and Spaces of Identity for Indonesian Street Children
· Faith, Space, and Negotiated Subjectivities: Young Muslims in Suburban Australia
· Subjectivities on the Edge
· Morality and Relationality in Children's Foodscapes
· Youth Participation in Singapore: The Limits of Approaches Created for Youth Rather Than by Youth
· Children's Media Landscapes and the Emotional Geographies of Urban Natures
· Place and identity in Young Adult Fiction
· Trekking, Navigating, and Travelogueing in the Youth Trek Project: The Documentary Photography and Photo Essays of a Young Research Collaborator Traveling in theUnited States
About the author
Traces Skelton, formerly a Professor in Critical Geographies, Loughborough University, UK, Tracey Skelton currently teaches at the National University of Singapore. A prolific writer, and avid researcher, Skelton has written numerous papers in top journals and authored and edited several books. She is an active editorial board member of premium journals in Geography, such as Geoforum, Children s Geographies, and ACME.
Summary
Geographies of children and young people is a rapidly emerging sub-discipline within human geography. There is now a critical mass of established academic work, key names within academia, growing numbers of graduate students and expanding numbers of university level taught courses. There are also professional training programmes at national scales and in international contexts that work specifically with children and young people. In addition to a productive journal of Children’s Geographies, there’s a range of monographs, textbooks and edited collections focusing on children and young people published by all the major academic presses then there is a substantive body of work on younger people within human geography and active authors and researchers working within international contexts to warrant a specific Major Reference Work on children’s and young people’s geographies.
The volumes and sections are structured by themes, which then reflect the broader geographical locations of the research.
