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This book broadens debates on violence, conflict and peace by examining the crucial role played by children and youth. Recent social, political and geographical research has demonstrated that children and youth are deeply impacted by war and violence and that, despite strong cultural assumptions about children's needs for protection, their wellbeing continues to be an afterthought rather than a central concern of global politics. Children and youth have also been shown to be more than just passive victims of violence. They are multiply enrolled in conflict as well as in the politics of reconciliation and peace.
The handbook illustrates these complexities through a wide range of chapters that review key literatures on the topic from geographical perspectives and in diverse global contexts. Demonstrating the centrality of space for children and youth's positioning within, and responses to, violence and conflict, the chapters engage with novel conceptual approaches and up-to-date empirical research to develop nuanced understandings of different forms of violence in relation to global and local topographies of power and young people's subjectivities and agencies. While offering rich insights into context-specific dynamics, similarities and connections are also outlined between children and youth in the majority and minority world.
List of contents
1. Violence of Youth and the Youthfulness of Violence
2. Children's Experiences of Sexual Violence, Psychological Trauma, Death, and Injury in War
3. Ethno-religious Identification and Latent Conflict: Support of Violence among Muslim and Christian Filipino Children and Youth
4. Geographies of Citizenship: Muslim Youth in Post-9/11 United States
5. Constructing and Deconstructing Child Soldier Narratives
6. Addicted to Orphans: How the Global Orphan Industrial Complex Jeopardizes Local Child Protection Systems
7. Street Children and Everyday Violence
8. Youth Reintegration, Power, and Okada Riding in Post-war Sierra Leone
9. Kids Coping in Congo
10. Young People's Recovery in Eastern Sri Lanka: From War to Postwar and Beyond
11. Evaluating Children and Youth Participation in Peacebuilding in Colombia, DRC, and Nepal: Lessons Learned and Emerging Findings
12. Space and Enclosure in the Occupied Palestinian Territory: Keeping Children Safe
13. Violent Geographies of Childhood and Home: The Child in the Closet
14. Researching Spaces of Violence through Family
15. Geographies of Palestinian Children and Families: A Critical Review of the Research and a Future Research Agenda
16. Decolonizing Trauma: Liberation Psychology and Childhood Trauma in Palestine
17. Self, Place, and Memory: Spatial Trauma Among British and Finnish War Children
18. War Children, Evacuations, and State Politics in Europe During WWII: A Local Case of Sick Finnish War Children in Sweden
19. Family Detention, Law, and Geopolitics in US Immigration Enforcement Policy
20. Fear, Vulnerability, and Death for Children and Youth at the US-México Border
21. Children and the Intimate Violence of Transnational Labor Migration
22. Symbolic Violence and Cruel Optimism: Young Men, Un(der)employment, and the Honda Layoffs in Swindon
23. Educational Distinction in Nepal's Postwar Transition
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.
