Politics, Citizenship and Rights, m. 1 Buch, m. 1 E-Book Book + Online Access

This volume explores the political geographies of children and young people and aims to cement this research area within human geography and beyond. Indeed, the policies that specifically target young individuals and groups, and the politics in the everyday lives of children and youth across all scalar dimensions deserve broad attention. The book is structured in four sections with specific focus on the spatialities of the rights of the child, children and young people's agency in politics, youthful practice as political resistance, and active youth citizenship. In the 28 chapters, a total of 43 authors based in 14 different countries explicate how issues of youthful citizenship, children's rights, and children and young people's political agencies cross disciplinary, methodological and theoretical boundaries, with notable geographical variation. Particular attention falls on children and young people's active roles in different kinds of political situations, environments, processes, and practices. The volume also emphasises that there is scope for future research, not least because of the shifting (geo)political landscapes across the globe.

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.

Product details

• Assisted by: Tracey Skelton (Editor), Sarah Mills (Editor), Kirsi Pauliina Kallio (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Content: Various
• Product form: Mixed media product
• Publication date: 01.01.2015
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography
• EAN: 9789814585576
• ISBN: 978-981-4585-57-6
• Pages: 534
• Illustrations: XXIX, 534 p. 18 illus., 14 illus. in color. Print + eReference.
• Dimensions (packing): 15.5 x 23.5 cm
• Series: Geographies of Children and Young People > Vol.7; Geographies of Children and Young People > 7