Critical geographies of childhood and youth

1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-1-84742-845-5
Verlag: Policy Press

Buch, Englisch, 296 Seiten, Format (B × H): 170 mm x 244 mm, Gewicht: 515 g

This original book explores the importance of geographical processes for policies and professional practices related to childhood and youth. Contributors from a wide range of disciplinary backgrounds explore how concepts such as place, scale, mobility and boundary-making are important for policies and practices in diverse contexts. Chapters present both comprehensive cutting-edge academic research and critical reflections by practitioners working in diverse contexts, giving the volume wide appeal. The focus on the role of geographical processes in policies and professional practices that affect young people provides new, critical insights into contemporary issues and debates. The contributions show how local and national concerns remain central to many youth programmes; they also highlight how youth policies are becoming increasingly globalised. Examples are taken from the UK, the Americas and Africa.

The chapters are informed by and advance contemporary theoretical approaches in human geography, sociology, anthropology and youth work, and will be of interest to academics and higher-level students in those disciplines. The book will also appeal to policy-makers and professionals who work with young people, encouraging them to critically reflect upon the role of geographical processes in their own work.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kraftl, Peter

Horton, John

Tucker, Faith

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Altersgruppen Kinder- und Jugendsoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Arbeit/Sozialpädagogik Soziale Arbeit/Sozialpädagogik: Familie, Kinder, Jugendliche

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Editors' introduction: critical geographies of childhood and youth ~ Peter Kraftl, John Horton and Faith Tucker; Part I (Inter)national youth policies: politics and practices of spatial translation: Making 'youth publics' and 'neuro-citizens': critical geographies of contemporary education practice in the UK ~ Jessica Pykett; Youth policy, neoliberalism and transnational governmentality: a case study of Lesotho and Malawi ~ Nicola Ansell, Flora Hadju, Elsbeth Robson, Lorraine van Blerk, Elodie Marandet; 'Brighter futures, greener lives': children and young people in UK sustainable development policy ~ Bethan Evans and Emma-Jay Honeyford; Places to go, things to do and people to see: space and activity in English youth work policy ~ Richard Davies; Part II Education and employment policies: learning beyond schools and schools beyond learning: The place of aspiration in UK widening participation policy: moving up or moving beyond ~ Gavin Brown; School choice versus social cohesion: examining the ways education policies shape children's geographies in the UK ~ Susie Weller; Lunchtime lock in: territorialisation and UK school meals policies ~ Jo Pike and Derek Colquhoun; Informal education in compulsory schooling in the UK: humanising moments, utopian spaces? ~ Isabel Cartwright; Part III Intervening in 'everyday life': scales, practices and the 'spatial imagination' in youth policy and professional practice: A free for all? Scale and young people's participation in UK transport planning ~ John Barker; Including young people in heritage conservation in Brazilian southern cities: the case of Pelotas ~ Laura Novo de Azevedo; Anchoring identity: the construction of responsibility for and by young offenders in the US ~ Alexandra Cox; Parenting policy and the geographies of friendship: encounters in an English Sure Start Children's Centre ~ Eleanor Jupp; Youth homelessness policy in Wales: improving housing rights and addressing geographical wrongs ~ Peter K. Mackie; Childhood in South Africa in the time of HIV/AIDS: reconsidering policy and practice ~ Amy Norman; Part IV Concluding reflections: Concluding reflections: what next and where next for critical geographies of youth policy and practice? ~ Peter Kraftl, John Horton and Faith Tucker.

Über Autor(innen)

Horton, John
John Horton is Professor in the Faculty of Health, Education & Society at the University of Northampton.

Kraftl, Peter
Peter Kraftl is Professor of Human Geography at the University of Leicester, UK. He is the author of four books and over 50 journal articles and book chapters about children's geographies, education, and geographies of architecture. He is an editor of Children's Geographies journal.

Peter Kraftl is a Senior Lecturer in Human Geography at the University of Leicester.

John Horton is a Senior Lecturer in Geography, based in the Centre for Children and Youth at The University of Northampton.

Faith Tucker is a Senior Lecturer in Geography, based in the Centre for Children and Youth at The University of Northampton.