Geographies of Children Youth and Families

<p>This edited collection brings together international experts from the vibrant and growing field of geographies of children, youth and families. </p><p>Designed as an introduction to the topic, this book provides an overview of current conceptual and theoretical debates surrounding geographies of children, youth and families, and gives a wide range of examples of cutting-edge research from a variety of national contexts across the globe. The theme of ‘disentangling the socio-spatial contexts of young people and/or their families’ advances debates in the field by emphasising the context of young people’s social agency.</p><p><em>Geographies of Children, Youth and Families</em> is an invaluable course text for undergraduate and postgraduate students of geography and the social sciences, as well as being of interest to students and practitioners of education, youth work, social policy, and social work.</p> <p>1. Introduction: Geographies of Children, Youth and Families, Disentangling the Socio-Spatial Contexts of Young People Across the Globalising World 2. Geographies of Children, Youth and Families: Defining Achievements, Debating the Agenda<em> </em><strong>Part 1: Bodies and Identities </strong>3. Foucault's Children<em> </em>4. Building a Sense of Community: Children, Bodies and Social Cohesion 5. Shutting the Bathroom Door: Parents, Young Teenagers and the Negotiation of Bodily Boundaries at Home <strong>Part 2: The Home, Family and Intergenerational Relationships </strong>6. The Search for Belonging: Youth Identities and Transitions to Adulthood in an African Refugee Context 7. Travellers, Housing and the (re)Construction of Communities<em> </em>8. On Not Going Home at the End of the Day: Spatialised Discourses of Family Life in Single Location Home/Workplaces 9. Geographies of 'Family' Life: Interdependent Relationships Across the Life Course in the Context of Problem Internet Gambling 10. Negotiating Children's Outdoor Spatial Freedom: Portraits of Three Parisian Families <strong>Part 3: Cities and/or Public Spaces</strong> 11. Children Living in the City: Gendered Experiences and Desires in Spain and Mexico<em> </em>12. Dredging History: the Price of Preservation at La Jolla's Children's Pool<em> </em>13. Filling the Family's Transport Gap in Sub-Saharan Africa: Young People and Load Carrying in Ghana 14. Adult Anxieties Versus Young People's Resistance: Negotiating Access to Public Space in Singapore<em> </em>15. Socio-Spatial Experiences of Young People under Anti-social Behaviour Legislation in England and Wales<em> </em><strong>Part 4: Institutional Spaces </strong>16. Tears and Laughter at a Sure Start Centre: Preschool Geographies, Policy Contexts<em> </em>17. Social and Educational Inequalities in English State Schools: Exploring the Understandings of Urban White Middle Class Children<em> </em>18. De/re-institutionalising Deafness through the Mainstreaming of Deaf Education in the Republic of Ireland 19. 'The Teachers seemed a bit Obsessive with Health and Safety': Fieldwork Risk and the Social Construction of Childhood </p>