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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
Introduction to Play, Recreation, Health and Wellbeing in Geographies of Children and Young People
Ludic Geographies
Children's Relations to the More-than-human World Beyond Developmental Views
Playful Enterprises
Children's geographies for activity and play: An overview of measurement approaches
Outdoor Environments as Children's Play Spaces: Playground Affordances
Children's Play in Urban Areas
Children and Young People's Participation in Cultural Activities
Playful Approaches to Outdoor Learning: Boggarts, Bears, and Bunny Rabbits
Development of Nature Playgrounds from the 1970s onwards
Young People's Play With Urban Public Space: Geographies of Hanging Out
Children's Play in their Local Neighbourhoods: Rediscovering the Value of Residential Streets
Rural Youth Identity Formation: Stories of Movement and Memories of Place
Spatial Resistance of Alternative Sports in Finland
Variegated Nature of Play for Auckland Children
Young Wheelchair Users' Play and Recreation
Public open spaces, children's independent mobility
Play and Learning in Benin
Popular Culture, Identity 'Play', and Mobilities: Young People and Celebrity
Geographies of Trolls, Grief Tourists, and Playing with Digital Transgression
Young People's Drinking Geographies
Moral Geographies of Young People and Food: Beyond Jamie's School Dinners
Mediating Young People's Knowledge: Framing School-based Sexuality Education in New Zealand and Canada
Governing Futures and Saving Young Lives: Willful smoking temporalities and subjectivities
Children's Corporeal Agency and Use of Space in Situations of Domestic Violence
Alcohol Consumption and Geographies of Childhood and Family Life
Mental Health of Looked-After Children: Embodiment and Use of Space
Children's spaces of mental health: The built environment as places of meaning
Locking up children and young people - secure care in Scotland
Geographies of Maternal Obesity, Eugenics, and the Clinical Space
Alternative Childhood Obesity Treatment in Age of Obesity Panic
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.
