Space, Place, And Environment (geographies Of Children And Young People)
by Tracey Skelton /
2016 / English / PDF
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This volume demonstrates the multiple ways that space, place and
environment interact with children and young people’s lives. The
contributors offer a suite of cutting-edge tools and lively
examples for theorising how space, place and environment are
(con)figured in children and young people’s lives. They
demonstrate how the social borders between childhood and
adulthood, and spatial borders between rural and urban,
countries, neighbourhoods, and institutions, are relationally
produced.
This volume demonstrates the multiple ways that space, place and
environment interact with children and young people’s lives. The
contributors offer a suite of cutting-edge tools and lively
examples for theorising how space, place and environment are
(con)figured in children and young people’s lives. They
demonstrate how the social borders between childhood and
adulthood, and spatial borders between rural and urban,
countries, neighbourhoods, and institutions, are relationally
produced.
The volume is organised into five sections: Indigenous Youth:
Space and Place; Children, Nature and Environmental Education;
Urban Spaces; Home/less Spaces; and Border Spaces. These themes
signal the major issues in cutting-edge children’s geographies
scholarship. Diverse geographical contexts are covered in this
volume – including Australia, Brazil, Canada, Cyprus, Ecuador,
India, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Mexico, Morocco, New Zealand, Peru,
Slovenia, Spain, the United Kingdom and the United States.
The volume is organised into five sections: Indigenous Youth:
Space and Place; Children, Nature and Environmental Education;
Urban Spaces; Home/less Spaces; and Border Spaces. These themes
signal the major issues in cutting-edge children’s geographies
scholarship. Diverse geographical contexts are covered in this
volume – including Australia, Brazil, Canada, Cyprus, Ecuador,
India, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Mexico, Morocco, New Zealand, Peru,
Slovenia, Spain, the United Kingdom and the United States.
All of the contributors advocate greater recognition of children
and young people’s spatial rights, whether in the home, outdoors,
at school, crossing borders, in public and digital spaces, or
simply looking for a safe place to sleep. Children and young
people’s perspectives on space, place and the environment, and
their desire for places to call their own, tie the volume
together. The volume is a testament to the politics of the spaces
and places of childhood, highlighting how many children and young
people face obstacles to living well and to living where they
desire.
All of the contributors advocate greater recognition of children
and young people’s spatial rights, whether in the home, outdoors,
at school, crossing borders, in public and digital spaces, or
simply looking for a safe place to sleep. Children and young
people’s perspectives on space, place and the environment, and
their desire for places to call their own, tie the volume
together. The volume is a testament to the politics of the spaces
and places of childhood, highlighting how many children and young
people face obstacles to living well and to living where they
desire.
