Geographies of children, youth and families an international perspective - Holt, Louise 1975-. (London Routledge, 2011)
1. Introduction: geographies of children, youth and families: disentangling the socio-spatial contexts of young people across the globalizing world -- 2. Geographies of children, youth and families: defining achievements, debating the agenda / Louise Holt -- 3. Foucault's children / Sarah L. Holloway / Helena Pimlott-Wilson -- 4. Building a sense of community: children, bodies and social cohesion / Chris Philo -- 5. Shutting the bathroom door: parents, young teenagers and the negotiation of bodily boundaries at home / Peter J. Hemming -- 6. The search for belonging: youth identities and transitions to adulthood in an African refugee context / Ruth Lewis -- 7. Travellers, housing and the (re)construction of communities / Gina Porter / Kate Kilpatrick / Peter Ohene Kyei / Michael Adjaloo / George Oppong Appiagyei Ampong / Kate Hampshire. 8. On not going home at the end of the day: spatialized discourses of family life in single-location home/workplaces / David Smith / Margaret Greenfields -- 9. Geographies of 'family' life: interdependent relationships across the life course in the context of problem Internet gambling / Julie Seymour -- 10. Negotiating children's outdoor spatial freedom: portraits of three Parisian families / Kahryn Hughes / Gill Valentine -- 11. Children living in the city: gendered experiences and desires in Spain and Mexico / Olga Den Besten -- 12. Dredging history: the price of preservation at La Jolla's Children's Pool / Anna Ortiz Guitart / Maria Prats Ferret / Mireia Baylina. -- 13. Filling the family's transport gap in sub-Saharan Africa: young people and load carrying in Ghana / Stuart C. Aitken / David Lulka -- 14. Adult anxieties versus young people's resistance: negotiating access to public space in Singapore / Kathrin Blaufuss / Gina Porter / Frank Owusu Acheampong. 15. Socio-spatial experiences of young people under anti-social behaviour legislation in England and Wales / Tracey Skelton / Nafisah Abdul Hamed -- 16. Tears and laughter at a Sure Start Centre: preschool geographies, policy contexts / Julia Fionda / Robert Jago / Rachel Manning -- 17. Social and educational inequalities in English state schools: exploring the understandings of urban white middle-class children / John Horton / Peter Kraft -- 18. De/re-institutionalizing deafness through the mainstreaming of deaf education in the Republic of Ireland / Phoebe Beedell / Fiona Jamieson / Katya Williams / Sumi Hollingworth -- 19. 'The teachers seemed a bit obsessive with health and safety': fieldwork risk and the social construction of childhood / Elizabeth S. Mathews.
Keywords: Children; Youth; Families; Human geography