New Book: Critical geographies of childhood and youth

About This Book

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.

Author Biography

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. 

Pour une approche sociologique renouvelée des «enfants pauvres»

Texte intégral disponible sur le portail Cairn :

http://www.cairn.info/resume.php?ID_ARTICLE=SOCIO_054_0441

L’article présente et critique un corpus de travaux sociologiques traitant des « enfants pauvres » en France, à la lumière des travaux élaborés sous la bannière d’une « sociologie de l’enfance ». Les travaux sur les enfants en situation de pauvreté se sont multipliés en France au début des années 1990, réunis autour de la thématique des « enfants pauvres ». Nous cherchons à en expliquer la genèse récente et son actualité. Si leur intérêt est indéniable, ces travaux présentent à notre avis des limites : ils tendent à faire disparaître l’enfant derrière l’adulte en devenir, se centrant quasi exclusivement sur sa condition de pauvreté, ce qui a pour corollaire d’occulter de nombreux aspects de la vie de ces enfants. Une lecture critique de ces textes, révélant leurs points aveugles, ouvre la voie à une approche sociologique renouvelée de l’enfance en situation de pauvreté.

Toward a renewed sociological approach regarding “poor children”

The article presents and critiques a body of sociological work regarding “poor children” in France in the light of works published under the banner of a “sociology of childhood”. The works about children in poverty proliferated in France at the beginning of the 1990’s, gathered around the theme of “poor children”. We seek to explain their recent genesis and news. While their interest is undeniable, these works present, in our view, some limitations: they tend to disappear behind the adult to come, focusing almost exclusively on its condition of poverty, which has as a corollary to hide many aspects of the lives of these children. A critical reading of these texts, revealing blind spots, paves the way for a renewed sociological approach to childhood poverty.

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Children and Nature in the Anthropocene

CFP RGS-IBS AC2015
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Children and Nature in the Anthropocene

CFP Annual International Conference, Exeter, 2nd – 4th September, 2015.
Royal Geographical Society (RGS) with Institute of British Geographers (IBG)

Session sponsorship:
Geographies of Children, Youth and Families Research Group

In this call for papers there are three distinct but interlinking sessions.  The three sessions will be scheduled on the same day at the RGS-IBG.  We also are planning a Plenary Session to follow, allowing time to discuss cross cutting themes.
For each session please email your abstracts to the corresponding organisers.

Session 1: Building and living with natures: more-than-human geographies of children, young people and families in urban environments

This session seeks to theorise geographies of children, young people and families in new and rapidly-changing urban environments, with a specific focus on human and more-than-human engagements with complex, multiple natures, landscapes and materialities. We would welcome contributions (15 minutes duration) which provide new critical, conceptual and empirical understandings of urban natures, built environments and how they are planned, lived and managed from a childhood, youth and family perspective. For example, papers might consider:

• how are children, young people and families accessing, engaging, playing and living with urban natures in their everyday lives?
• how is ‘nature’ regulated, bounded, managed and represented in urban spaces and what impact does this have on social-material and more-than-human geographies?
• how is ‘nature’ shaping or being shaped, constructed or represented in design/planning processes in new built environments?

We seek to bring together a range of theoretical and empirical insights into the social, cultural and more-than-human geographies of new and rapidly changing/developing cityscapes.

The session will explore multiple conceptualisations of nature which are conceived, emerging and experienced in built environments across minority and majority worlds.

We invite papers which engage with children, young people and families in relation to the following topics:

• more-than-human theorisations of nature and the built environment
• everyday encounters with urban natures and non-human others
• critical and conceptual approaches to children, young people and ‘nature’
• urban natures, vitality and spirituality
• urban natures in shifting/developing landscapes
• urban natures, identities, belonging
• porosity between the built environment and nature
• politics of regulating, planning and representing urban natures
• urban natures, affect and embodiment
• architecture, design and urban ecologies
Abstracts of no more than 250 words should be sent to s.a.hadfield-hill@bham.ac.uk by 10th February, 2015.
Session Convenors
Dr. Sophie Hadfield-Hill (University of Birmingham)
Dr. Cristiana Zara (University of Birmingham)
Dr. John Horton (University of Northampton)
Professor. Peter Kraftl (University of Leicester)

Session 2: Learning to be affected: Mapping young people’s more than human relations

This session responds to the challenges that the Anthropocene poses to the entangled lives, inheritances and futures of 21st century children and their more- than-human companions. It is inspired by the recuperative ethics and politics of feminist geographers who call for us to decentre the human; pursue distributed notions of agency; and find new ways to understand and practise our relations with the more-than-human others with whom we share this world (Anderson, 2014; Gibson, Rose & Fincher, 2015; Whatmore 2013).

This session will focus upon the co-constitutive relations between young people and the more-than-human world with a particular emphasis on mutual affect and distributed agency. We welcome presentations that are based on empirical research with young people; that are situated and place attuned; that experiment with creative and multi-sensorial methods; and that explore new ways of paying attention to how we are mutually affecting and affected by encounters and relations with the more than human others with whom we share our worlds.

Session Convenors
Assoc. Prof. Affrica Taylor
Prof. Emma Renold

Abstracts of no more than 250 words should be sent to affrica.taylor@canberra.edu.au  by 10th February.

Session 3: Impacts of children, families and young people connecting with nature
The "anthropocene" (Cutzen and Stoermer, 2000) acknowledges the role of human society in shaping our world and our future. Global environmental change and rapid processes of urbanisation have highlighted the important role nature plays in our lives, in terms of health and wellbeing (Bird, 2007) as well as ecology and livelihoods (Dillon, et al 2005). A growing movement is focussing on the amount of time children and young people spend outdoors (e.g. Louv, 2005; Gill, 2014) and their connection to nature as a way of re-interpreting our relationship to the more-than-human. This session aims to promote discussion on the impact of activities promoting children’s (re)-connection with nature, either through education or in more informal settings and will also explore the long-term impacts of connecting with nature on later life-choices and lifestyle behaviours.

Session Convenors:
Dr Frances Harris (Kingston University, London)
Dr Sue Waite (Plymouth University)
Dr Roger Cutting (Plymouth University)

Abstracts of no more than 250 words should be sent to Frances Harris (f.harris@kingston.ac.uk) by 10th February, 2015.


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Dr. John Horton

Centre for Children and Youth,
Park Campus,
The University of Northampton,
Boughton Green Road,
Northampton, NN2 7AL.
(Phone: 01604 892990)

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Novedades Infancia y Comunicación Enero 2015

Una publicación del Consejo Nacional de Televisión.
Infancia & Comunicación, es una red en la que participan académicos, investigadores, entre otros colaboradores, cuyo objetivo es difundir conocimiento sobre infancia, adolescencia y medios de comunicación.
Mensualmente este espacio se actualiza, incorporando artículos, investigaciones, noticias e iniciativas en esta temática.
Si desean publicar artículos, investigaciones u otra información, los documentos se recibirán hasta el 15 de cada mes a mescala@cntv.cl

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