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.
This multi-volume, major reference work serves as a comprehensive resource on children's and young people's geographies. It speaks to a wide audience, from geographers to sociologists, demographers to social workers and policy makers to development agencies.
Affective geo-visualization and children: Representing the embodied and
emotional geographies of children.- An Aporia to Theory.- Approaching Child
and Youth Geographies through Darwin.- Babies and their Spacialities:
Contributions to Studies of Babies.- Changing the Subject: Education and the
Constitution of Youth in the Neoliberal Era.- Childrens Emotional and
Affective Geographies.- Engaging with Bourdieu: A Review of the Utilisation
of Bourdieu within Childrens Geographies.- Foucault, Mischievous Children
and Unruly Geographies.- Geographies of Architecture, Childrens Geographies
and Nonrepresentational Theory.- Geographies of Child Labour and Children's
Work.- Geographies of Education: Context, Case and Future Directions.-
Geographies of Youth Religiosity and Spirituality.- Illustration, Challenge
or Alternative Perspective: Global South Research and the New Social Studies
of Childhood.- Intergenerational Geographies in Theory and Practice.-
Internationalization of Education: Key Developments and Debates.- Living in
the Space Between: Object-Relations Psychoanalysis and the Geography of
Subjective Experience.- Paradoxes of Young People's Political
Participation.- Play and Playgrounds in Children's Geographies.- Social
Reproduction and the Shifting Geographies of Children and Childhood.-
Spinoza and the Spider: Theorizing Childhood as Capacities of Affection and
Affect.- Taking Seriously Everyday Life Inquiry : Youth Participatory Action
Research & Theory.- The Political Geography of the Best Interest of the
Child.- Theorizing Children's Political Agency.- Zero Tolerance for
Millennials: Care, Violence and the Development of Young Peoples and
Childrens Geographies.
Tracey Skelton is Associate Professor of Human Geography in the Department of Geography at the National University of Singapore. She was previously Professor of Critical Geographies at the University of Loughborough in the UK. The essential elements of her research career focus on people who are socially, politically, and intellectually excluded. Her early work focused on the Caribbean and issues of gender and racial inequality, feminist geographies, and methodological analysis. She has contributed to culture and development debates, particularly through her longitudinal research on the island of Montserrat. Recently, A/P Skelton returned to this field of scholarship through research with volunteers and host organizations in Cambodia as part of a major comparative and collaborative project on development partnerships. She was the principal investigator of a major comparative urbanism research project on the livability, sustainability, and diversity of four Asian cities: Busan in South Korea, Hyderabad in India, Kunming in China, and Singapore. A/P Skelton is a recognized international leader in the subdiscipline of childrens and young peoples geographies. In particular, her work has served to challenge the invisibility and marginalization of young people from geographic academic research at the same time as it has demonstrated the rich and varied ways in which young people live their lives both spatially and temporally alongside, but differently from, adults. Her research work has been funded by key research institutions such as the Economic and Social Research Council and the Arts and Humanities Research Council of the UK; the Faculty of Arts and Social Science Academic Research Fund and the Global Asia Institute, both of the National University of Singapore; the Australian Research Council; and the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada. A/P Skelton was a founding editorial board member of the international journal Childrens Geographies and has been the Viewpoints Editor since 2005 and became the Commissioning Editor for Asia in 2010. She is on the editorial boards of the following journals: Geoforum; the Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography; and Geography Compass. She has coauthored 2 books, edited 5 collections, guest-edited 2 special issues, and 2 special sections, and published more than 95 journal articles and chapters. She is a passionate teacher and graduate supervisor. She is committed to the politics of research dissemination in accessible formats, in particular to enable the participants in her research projects to understand and recognize their coproduction of knowledge whether through specialized small-scale workshops, translation of reports into local languages, or production of audiovisual materials.
Dr. Stuart C. Aitken is June Burnett Chair and Distinguished Professor of Geography at San Diego State University, and Director of the research center Youth, Environment, Society and Space (YESS). His research interests include critical social theory, qualitative methods, film, children, families and communities, child rights, and youth activism. Stuart has worked with the UN on qualitative methods, child rights, and labor and migration issues. His previous books include Young People, Rights and Place (Routledge, 2018), The Ethnopoetics of Space: Young Peoples Engagement, Activism and Aesthetics (Ashgate, 2016), The Fight to Stay Put (Steiner Verlag, 2013), Young People, Border Spaces and Revolutionary Imaginations (Routledge, 2011), Qualitative Geographies (Sage, 2010), The Awkward Spaces of Fathering (Ashgate, 2009), Global Childhoods (Routledge, 2008), Geographies of Young People (Routledge, 2001), Family Fantasies and Community Space (Rutgers University Press, 1998), and Place, Space, Situation and Spectacle (Rowman and Littlefield, 1994). He has published over 250 research papers, essays, and reviews in academic journals as well as in various edited book collections and encyclopedias. Stuart is past coeditor of The Professional Geographer and Childrens Geographies.
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