Geographies of Children, Youth and Families

Abstract

1. Introduction: Geographies of Children, Youth and Families, Disentangling the Socio-Spatial Contexts of Young People Across the Globalising World by Louise Holt 2. Geographies of Children, Youth and Families: Defining Achievements, Debating the Agenda by Sarah L. Holloway and Helena Pimlott-Wilson Part 1: Bodies and Identities 3. Foucault's Children by Chris Philo 4. Building a Sense of Community: Children, Bodies and Social Cohesion by Peter J. Hemming 5. Shutting the Bathroom Door: Parents, Young Teenagers and the Negotiation of Bodily Boundaries at Home by Ruth Lewis Part 2: The Home, Family and Intergenerational Relationships 6. The Search for Belonging: Youth Identities and Transitions to Adulthood in an African Refugee Context by Kate Hampshire, Gina Porter, Kate Kilpatrick, Peter Kyei, Michael Adjaloo, and George Oppong 7. Travellers, Housing and the (re)Construction of Communities by David Smith and Margaret Greenfields 8. On Not Going Home at the End of the Day: Spatialised Discourses of Family Life in Single Location Home/Workplaces by Julie Seymour 9. Geographies of 'Family' Life: Interdependent Relationships Across the Life Course in the Context of Problem Internet Gambling by Gill Valentine and Kahryn Hughes 10. Negotiating Children's Outdoor Spatial Freedom: Portraits of Three Parisian Families by Olga den Besten Part 3: Cities and/or Public Spaces 11. Children Living in the City: Gendered Experiences and Desires in Spain and Mexico by Mireia Baylina, Anna Ortiz and Maria Prats 12. Dredging History: the Price of Preservation at La Jolla's Children's Pool by David Lulka and Stuart Aitken 13. Filling the Family's Transport Gap in Sub-Saharan Africa: Young People and Load Carrying in Ghana by Gina Porter, Kathrin Blaufuss and Frank Owusu Acheampong 14. Adult Anxieties Versus Young People's Resistance: Negotiating Access to Public Space in Singapore by Tracey Skelton and Nafisah Bte Abd Hamed 15. Socio-spatial Experiences of Young People under Anti-social Behaviour Legislation in England and Wales by Rachel Manning, Robert Jago and Julia Fionda Part 4: Institutional Spaces 16. Tears and Laughter at a Sure Start Centre: Preschool Geographies, Policy Contexts by John Horton and Peter Kraftl 17. Social and Educational Inequalities in English State Schools: Exploring the Understandings of Urban White Middle Class Children by Sumi Hollingworth, Katya Williams, Fiona Jamieson and Phoebe Beedell 18. De/re-institutionalising Deafness through the Mainstreaming of Deaf Education in the Republic of Ireland by Elizabeth S. Mathews 19. 'The Teachers seemed a bit Obsessive with Health and Safety': Fieldwork Risk and the Social Construction of Childhood by Victoria Ann Cook