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Covid-19 in New Zealand and the Pacific: implications for children and families Children's Geographies (IF 1.856) Pub Date : 2021-04-17 Claire Freeman, Christina Ergler, Robin Kearns, Melody Smith
ABSTRACT The experience of Covid-19 in Aotearoa New Zealand in 2020 has been strongly shaped by a narrative emanating from a robust partnership between politicians and public health experts. This narrative, as we illustrate in the sections below, treads a careful line between hard and soft responses. To elaborate, enacting policy such as closing borders and requiring ‘lockdown’ was swift and firm but
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How children negotiate and make sense of social class boundaries Children's Geographies (IF 1.856) Pub Date : 2021-04-17 Imane Kostet, Gert Verschraegen, Noel Clycq
ABSTRACT This article aims to understand how children in a superdiverse Western European city actively negotiate their social position. Based on in-depth interviews with children aged 11–13, we highlight how a diverse group of children give meaning to social inequality and assess how they position themselves towards different socio-economic groups. We argue that children not only show an acute awareness
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Trapped Mobility: a theoretical framework and literature review focusing on displaced youth at the borders between the Global South and Global North Children's Geographies (IF 1.856) Pub Date : 2021-04-13 Silvia Marcu
ABSTRACT This article introduces the concept of ‘trapped mobility’ as a way of analyzing the complexity of the lives of displaced young people at the borders between the Global South and Global North. ‘Trapped mobility’ results from state policies, for containing immigration and mobility at borders around the world and their impact on the experiences of displaced youth. The article’s contribution is
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‘We have to make the tourists happy’; orphanage tourism in Siem Reap, Cambodia through the children’s own voices Children's Geographies (IF 1.856) Pub Date : 2021-04-13 Amanda Miller, Harriot Beazley
ABSTRACT This paper examines the lived experiences of children who interacted with tourists in a performance-based orphanage in Siem Reap, Cambodia. The orphanage was perceived by poor Cambodians as the only opportunity for their children to access food and education and a place to care for children when parents migrated for work. In recent years, however, orphanages in the majority world have come
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Developing an integrated approach to the evaluation of outdoor play settings: rethinking the position of play value Children's Geographies (IF 1.856) Pub Date : 2021-04-10 Ruth Parker, Sura Al-Maiyah
ABSTRACT Local play parks are key spaces within children’s geographies providing opportunities for physical activity, socialisation and a connection with their local community. The design of these key neighbourhood facilities influences their use; extending beyond accessibility and installation of equipment when seeking to create a location with usability for all. This paper reports on the development
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Unearned advantages? Redefining privilege in light of childhood Children's Geographies (IF 1.856) Pub Date : 2021-04-04 Sebastian Barajas
ABSTRACT This article puts privilege theory in conversation with childhood studies in order to create a richer understanding of privilege. Privilege describes the unearned, largely invisible advantages that historically dominant groups enjoy at the expense of marginalized groups. The field of childhood studies was created in part as a critique of adults’ positions of privilege relative to children
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Cracks in the well-plastered façade of the Nordic model: reflections on inequalities in housing and mobility in (post-)coronavirus pandemic Sweden Children's Geographies (IF 1.856) Pub Date : 2021-04-02 Tanja Joelsson, Danielle Ekman Ladru
ABSTRACT In this paper, Sweden’s situation in and response to the COVID-19 pandemic is discussed. Through examples of overcrowding and public transport, we argue that the pandemic has revealed, and risks reaffirming, existing aged, gendered, ethnic and socioeconomic inequalities in the housing market, and in relation to mobility and transport. The paper seeks to explore how the large scale and widespread
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‘No one listens to us … ’ COVID-19 and its socio-spatial impact on children and young people in Germany Children's Geographies (IF 1.856) Pub Date : 2021-04-02 Angela Million
ABSTRACT The handling of COVID-19 in Germany has shown that children, young people and families are not a top priority. Available studies identify a significant socio-spatial impact in this regard. Limits and conflicts can be discerned due to domestic concentration, wh blurs times and spaces and highlights the dependency of families in Germany on social infrastructure. During lockdown, there is a rise
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Feminist ethicality in child-animal research: worlding through complex stories Children's Geographies (IF 1.856) Pub Date : 2021-04-01 Veronica Pacini-Ketchabaw, Mindy Blaise
ABSTRACT Thinking with feminist scholarship on ethicality, this article draws from two ethnographies with animal and young children to outline new questions for doing research in children’s geographies. Specifically, the article discusses how feminist ethicality within multispecies research challenges the masculinist idea that ethical research should focus on children’s story-making and ability to
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Childhood publics in search of an audience: reflections on the children’s environmental movement Children's Geographies (IF 1.856) Pub Date : 2021-03-25 Sevasti-Melissa Nolas
ABSTRACT The essay reflects on the children’s environmental movement from the perspective of cultural theory, as well as the authors’ own and others’ research on children’s encounters, experiences and engagement in public life. The concepts of political knowingness, childhood publics, and listening publics are evoked to think through the surprise that the children’s environmental movement generated
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Making sense of ‘slippages’: re-evaluating ethics for digital research with children and young people Children's Geographies (IF 1.856) Pub Date : 2021-03-23 Kieran Cutting, Sean Peacock
ABSTRACT In this paper, we argue that institutional ethical procedures do not properly prepare children’s geographers to conduct digital research with children and young people (CYP). To address this, we propose a relational, dynamic approach to ethics fit for such contemporary research with CYP. We find fault in a growing disconnect between processual expectations of our academic institution and the
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The impacts of COVID-19 on children in Australia: deepening poverty and inequality Children's Geographies (IF 1.856) Pub Date : 2021-03-23 Sharon Bessell
ABSTRACT Australia’s response to COVID-19 has been effective in limiting transmission, resulting in fewer cases than in many countries. Nevertheless, the pandemic and responses to it have created serious social and economic problems that are impacting negatively on children. Existing inequalities have been exacerbated, poverty is deepening, and relationships are under pressure, with highly deleterious
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Children during the COVID-19 pandemic: children and young people’s vulnerability and wellbeing in Indonesia Children's Geographies (IF 1.856) Pub Date : 2021-03-23 Santi Kusumaningrum, Clara Siagian, Harriot Beazley
ABSTRACT This Viewpoint discusses the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, and the Indonesian government’s response, on children and young people. By adopting a geographical and socio-spatial analysis the paper discusses the extent to which the response to the crisis has aggravated the detrimental impacts of the emergency on children. We argue that the government’s decision to transition to the ‘new normal’
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Pandemic and protest: young people at the forefront of US Pandemonium Children's Geographies (IF 1.856) Pub Date : 2021-03-23 Stuart C. Aitken
ABSTRACT The USA continues with the largest number of Covid-19 confirmed cases and associated deaths worldwide. It is clear that health, recreation, political and education systems will not be the same in a post-Covid context. It is also clear that there are ongoing devastating effects on the rights and well-being of children and young people. Systemic racial, economic and political inequalities that
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‘High tide by boat, low tide we walk’: the everyday digital lives of girls in remote villages of Vanua Levu, Fiji Children's Geographies (IF 1.856) Pub Date : 2021-03-23 Catherine Rita Volpe
ABSTRACT A technological revolution of the Pacific region means that we have opportunities to investigate the ways in which digital technology is impacting the lives of those living in remote areas of the region. The aim of this article is to provide insight into the role of emotions in the digital lives of girls living in villages of Vanua Levu, Fiji. Facebook is shown to be a social environment where
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Child-dog faeces assemblages and children’s engagements in activist art Children's Geographies (IF 1.856) Pub Date : 2021-03-16 Debbie Watson, Eric Morgan, Katie Bull
ABSTRACT Dog fouling is recognised as antisocial, unhealthy and illegal in England, yet it persists. Much action against dog fouling happens in communities and impacts are largely unrecorded. Here, we report an activist project with primary-aged children in Bristol, England that resulted in dog fouling reductions near schools and reflects on the role of children in effecting social change in their
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Outbreak over outbreak: children living the pandemic in the aftermath of Chile’s social unrest Children's Geographies (IF 1.856) Pub Date : 2021-03-14 Susana Cortés-Morales, Camilo Morales
ABSTRACT Children’s experiences of the pandemic in Chile need to be understood in the context of the social unrest that started explosively (although with a much longer history) in October 2019. We reflect here on children and young peoplés social and political participation in this process, the position of childhood in the Constitution and general inequality as the context in which the pandemic developed
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On, to, with, for, by: ethics and children in research Children's Geographies (IF 1.856) Pub Date : 2021-02-22 Linnea Bodén
ABSTRACT The ethics of the participation of children in research have attracted the attention of childhood researchers for thirty years. By analysing central scholarly work in childhood sociology and in early childhood education research, the aim of this paper is to unfold, but also queer how ethics are articulated within literature that discusses children in research. Through the methodology of tracing-and-mapping
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‘Small steps and small wins’ in young people’s everyday climate crisis activism Children's Geographies (IF 1.856) Pub Date : 2021-02-18 Daniel Emdal Navne, Morten Skovdal
ABSTRACT This Viewpoint is primarily a personal account of 16-year-old Daniel’s experiences of his everyday climate crisis activisms. The article demonstrates Daniel’s disquiet with how things stand, and how this translates into everyday climate crisis activism and relational dilemmas that need to be carefully navigated. Guided by his ‘inner climate compass’, Daniel finds small and controllable ways
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Vulnerabilities, support systems and child domestic work in South-West Nigeria Children's Geographies (IF 1.856) Pub Date : 2021-02-13 Peter Olayiwola
ABSTRACT Child domestic work (CDW) is often depicted as a poverty-induced and ignorance-manufactured problem requiring urgent attention. Thus, the dominant policies in this regard have often advocated addressing the factors pushing children into domestic service while little or nothing is done about factors beyond the sending households or the structures within which the work is done. This article
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So you’re literally taking the piss?! Critically analysing and accounting for ethics (and risk) in interdisciplinary research on children and plastics Children's Geographies (IF 1.856) Pub Date : 2021-01-18 Peter Kraftl, Iseult Lynch, Polly Jarman, Alice Menzel, Amy Walker, Ruth Till, Sophie Hadfield-Hill
ABSTRACT Whilst interdisciplinarity has been an integral part of childhood studies, it is less common for social scientists and natural scientists to collaborate in this space – and especially with scholars like environmental (nano)scientists. This paper draws on vignettes from a project about children and plastics, which combined a range of qualitative, artistic and biosampling methods. Focusing on
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Losing or securing futures? Looking beyond ‘proper’ education to decision-making processes about young people’s education in Africa – an introduction Children's Geographies (IF 1.856) Pub Date : 2020-11-11 Tabea Häberlein, Sabrina Maurus
ABSTRACT The education of young people in Africa has been receiving increasing political attention due to expanded schooling and, as a result, an expanding number of unemployed educated youths who challenge governments. While many studies have described young people in Africa as being in a stage of ‘waithood’, this special issue looks at decision-making processes in youths’ education. The articles
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What difference does it make? Exploring the transformative potential of everyday climate crisis activism by children and youth Children's Geographies (IF 1.856) Pub Date : 2021-01-06 Carlie D. Trott
ABSTRACT Given the enormity of the climate crisis, the transformative potential of ‘everyday’ activism is often questioned. In this theoretical discussion, I explore the real-world significance of everyday activism by children and youth. First, I emphasize the need for top-down policy change as well as bottom-up cultural shifts. Next, I describe the significance of young people’s everyday activism
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Working with young children in Museums: weaving theory and practice Children's Geographies (IF 1.856) Pub Date : 2020-12-31 Jess Schriver
(2020). Working with young children in Museums: weaving theory and practice. Children's Geographies. Ahead of Print.
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Children and young people’s decision-making in social research about sensitive issues Children's Geographies (IF 1.856) Pub Date : 2020-12-30 Tim Moore, Morag McArthur, Anne Graham, Jenny Chalmers, Mary Ann Powell, Stephanie Taplin
ABSTRACT Limited attention has been given to what motivates and informs children and young people’s decision to participate (or not) in social research, especially about sensitive issues. This paper reports the findings from focus group interviews with children and young people aged 9–16 years, undertaken as part of a larger study that explored what constitutes a sensitive issue in social research
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The flows of things – exploring babies’ everyday space-making Children's Geographies (IF 1.856) Pub Date : 2020-12-30 Alex Orrmalm
ABSTRACT This article draws on a larger ethnographic study conducted in the homes of babies aged between one and 18 months and their families in Sweden. The article explores how everyday space is made in the homes of families through babies’ engagements with material things by methodologically working with maps, images, lists, and stories. Three themes – the practices of spreading things out, the height
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An ethnography of the lives of Japanese and Japanese Brazilian migrants: childhood, family, and work Children's Geographies (IF 1.856) Pub Date : 2020-12-30 Urszula Markowska-Manista
(2020). An ethnography of the lives of Japanese and Japanese Brazilian migrants: childhood, family, and work. Children's Geographies. Ahead of Print.
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Navigating children’s screen-time at home: narratives of childing and parenting within the familial generational structure Children's Geographies (IF 1.856) Pub Date : 2020-12-21 Utsa Mukherjee
ABSTRACT This article draws upon my qualitative study with 8–12-year-old British Indian children and their professional middle-class parents, to demonstrate the ways in which parental mediation of children’s digital leisure play out within the home. Using the relational lens of ‘generational order’, I identify the ways in which children ‘navigate’ their way around restrictive parental mediation of
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Young people’s understandings and attitudes towards marine debris: a systematic scoping review Children's Geographies (IF 1.856) Pub Date : 2020-12-21 Antonia Canosa, Marie-Laurence Paquette, Amy Cutter-Mackenzie-Knowles, Alexandra Lasczik, Marianne Logan
ABSTRACT This paper reports on the findings of a systematic and rigorous scoping review of all relevant peer-reviewed literature published up until April 2020 focused on young people’s understandings and attitudes towards marine debris. The review of relevant literature reveals there are only limited peer-reviewed studies that engage with the issues of marine pollution from a child’s or young person’s
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Great games and keeping it cool: new political, social and cultural geographies of young people’s environmental activism Children's Geographies (IF 1.856) Pub Date : 2020-11-30 Rebecca Collins
ABSTRACT Drawing on recent framings of young people’s environmental activism as a ‘game’, alongside long-standing characterisations of youth as responsibilised environmental change-agents, in this Viewpoint I identify fertile research opportunities in the liminal spaces between moments of young people’s action and the political and socio-cultural spaces through which those actions (might) diffuse.
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Bad television, unhealthy computers? Children’s mapping of health, fun and morality Children's Geographies (IF 1.856) Pub Date : 2020-11-21 Magdalena Radkowska-Walkowicz
ABSTRACT The article aims to examine the meanings that Polish children (age 8–11) attribute to computers, television, or smartphones, in the context of health. Basing on childhood studies literature and the concept of healthscape I show how children include electronic media, as material and symbolic objects, in health discourses. In children’s worldviews these objects meet with healthy food and fit
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Minor players, worlding encounters Children's Geographies (IF 1.856) Pub Date : 2020-12-07 Riikka Hohti
(2021). Minor players, worlding encounters. Children's Geographies: Vol. 19, No. 2, pp. 255-257.
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Corrosive disadvantage: the impact of fracking on young people’s capabilities Children's Geographies (IF 1.856) Pub Date : 2020-11-02 Lynda Dunlop, Lucy Atkinson, Maria Turkenburg-van Diepen
ABSTRACT Hydraulic fracturing (‘fracking’) is a policy problem that is both a spatial and temporal issue, touching on economic, environmental, health, safety, political and social concerns of interest to youth. This empirical study focuses on the impact of fracking on youth in communities in England. The Capabilities Approach is used as a lens for understanding the experiences of young people in their
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‘In the middle of things’: on educated un(der)employed young people’s pragmatism and idealism in rural Indonesia Children's Geographies (IF 1.856) Pub Date : 2020-10-27 Thijs Schut
ABSTRACT Discussions about young people and their troubled education-to-work transitions in the global south usually concern urban case studies, in which young people are typically described as if they are outside the normal flow of things. By contrast, this current paper focuses on rural tertiary-educated young people (aged 20–30) on the island of Flores, East Indonesia. These young people try – and
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The role of schools and teachers in nurturing and responding to climate crisis activism Children's Geographies (IF 1.856) Pub Date : 2020-10-06 Lynda Dunlop, Lucy Atkinson, Joshua Edward Stubbs, Maria Turkenburg-van Diepen
ABSTRACT This viewpoint concerns the places and spaces for youth participation in climate activism in formal education and considers what is – and what ought to be – the role of schools and teachers in nurturing and responding to climate crisis activism. Reflecting on our work on young people’s perspectives of hydraulic fracturing (‘fracking’) and associated anti-fracking protests, we consider some
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The rhythmicity of daily travel: young children’s mobility practices along the mobile preschool route Children's Geographies (IF 1.856) Pub Date : 2020-10-01 Jutta Balldin, Anne Harju
ABSTRACT The article aims to highlight the means of rhythmicity to social life from within a study of children’s daily travelling with a mobile preschool in Sweden. The point of departure is the neglected mobility practices of young children in research and the difficult relation between children’s everyday movements and persistent representations of childhood time and place. Based on sensuous ethnographic
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Gambian educational migration, care and the persistence of the domestic moral economy Children's Geographies (IF 1.856) Pub Date : 2020-09-27 Pamela Kea
ABSTRACT This article examines Gambians’ experiences of educational migration to the UK, social reproduction and care, as they organize and map out educational futures transnationally. They do so in order to be in a position to invest in their children's education, with the aim of consolidating and enhancing the family's accumulated wealth and resources across the generations. Access to social, economic
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Making women’s shelters more conducive to family life: professionals’ exploration of the benefits of nature Children's Geographies (IF 1.856) Pub Date : 2020-09-27 Elise Peters, Jolanda Maas, Carlo Schuengel, Dieuwke Hovinga
ABSTRACT For families who live in women’s shelters, provision of salubrious activities supports their recovery and resilience. In many fields, natural environments are known to provide such benefits. Using an action research design, this study explored professionals’ perspective on the benefits of nature for family life in women’s shelters. Four researchers and 46 care professionals collaborated for
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Migranthood: youth in a New Era of deportation Children's Geographies (IF 1.856) Pub Date : 2020-09-22 María V. Barbero
(2021). Migranthood: youth in a New Era of deportation. Children's Geographies: Vol. 19, No. 2, pp. 254-255.
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Even in Iceland? Exploring mothers’ narratives on neighbourhood choice in a perceived classless and feminist utopia Children's Geographies (IF 1.856) Pub Date : 2020-09-21 Auður Magndís Auðardóttir, Berglind Rós Magnúsdóttir
ABSTRACT The study explores how mothers in Iceland, a relatively new nation state that is perceived as being gender equal, classless and homogeneous, adapt and respond to international trends of consumer cultures. Building on studies about parental neighbourhood choice, parental practices and reproduction of social class, the study’s aim is to examine the local manifestations of those in an international
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To trust or not to trust? Young people’s trust in climate change science and implications for climate change engagement Children's Geographies (IF 1.856) Pub Date : 2020-09-21 Maria Ojala
ABSTRACT This article discusses young people’s trust or distrust in climate change science. The aim is to show how the emotional dimension of trust in climate change science plays a role for an engagement at two levels: how young people relate to climate change at large, if they worry or deny climate change, and how young people deal with ambivalence regarding behavioral advice about, for example,
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‘I go to school to survive’: Facing physical, moral and economic uncertainties in rural Lesotho Children's Geographies (IF 1.856) Pub Date : 2020-09-18 Claire Elisabeth Dungey, Nicola Ansell
ABSTRACT In Lesotho, when children or adults talk about the importance of schooling, they frequently use the term ho iphelisa. This is usually translated as ‘to survive’, reflecting the uncertainties that people in this small country have confronted over recent decades: rapidly diminishing employment opportunities, extremely high HIV prevalence and environmental crises. Based on nine months of ethnographic
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Blurring the ‘-ism’ in youth climate crisis activism: everyday agency and practices of marginalized youth in the Brazilian urban periphery Children's Geographies (IF 1.856) Pub Date : 2020-09-15 Susanne Börner, Peter Kraftl, Leandro Luiz Giatti
This paper reflects upon the everyday agency of marginalized youth in the Brazilian urban periphery in responding to the climate crisis In the context of the global covid-19 crisis, which has exacerbated patterns of social exclusion between urban centers and peripheries, we reflect on the extent to which current theorizations of youth activism are appropriate for understanding youth agency in the periphery
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Conflictuality and situated inequality in children’s school life Children's Geographies (IF 1.856) Pub Date : 2020-09-10 Charlotte Højholt
ABSTRACT Studies of children’s participation in school illustrate both societal conflicts about the school and how children in school deal with quite unequal conditions when it comes to handling the conflictuality of school life. Analyses of situated interplay, coordination and conflicts between the parties involved in children’s school lives (children, parents, teachers, psychologists, etc.) can elucidate
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‘Generation Z’ and ‘second generation’: an agenda for learning from cross-cultural negotiations of the climate crisis in the lives of second generation immigrants Children's Geographies (IF 1.856) Pub Date : 2020-09-09 Catherine Walker
Cross-cultural negotiations of environmental knowledge in children and young people’s lives have received minimal attention in children’s geographies and wider childhood scholarship, despite intere...
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Landscapes as represented in textbooks and in students’ imagination: stability, generational gap, image retention and recognisability Children's Geographies (IF 1.856) Pub Date : 2020-09-09 Mimi Urbanc, Jerneja Fridl, Tatjana Resnik Planinc
ABSTRACT The paper focuses on the representation of landscapes and the depiction of landscape features in the photographic images of textbooks, the perception, recognition and imagination of landscapes by the school population, and the possible link between both. The empirical element of the study is based on the case of Slovenia and includes quantitative and qualitative analysis of photographs in
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Children and young people’s climate crisis activism – a perspective on long-term effects Children's Geographies (IF 1.856) Pub Date : 2020-08-26 Sylvia Nissen, Jennifer H. K. Wong, Sally Carlton
ABSTRACT The year 2019 witnessed the gathering pace of a global climate movement, with millions of young people striking for climate action. While the contours of this activism are just beginning to emerge, the scale of the mobilisations to date suggest their consequences are likely to be profound – for participants, communities and the wider political environment. This paper looks to the literature
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‘That’s given me a bit more hope’ – adolescent girls’ experiences of Forest School Children's Geographies (IF 1.856) Pub Date : 2020-08-26 Jillian Manner, Lawrence Doi, Yvonne Laird
Forest School is an outdoor learning program aimed at improving wellbeing and resilience. Few studies discuss Forest School experiences from the viewpoint of adolescent girls, particularly those wi...
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Inclusion, social capital and space within an English secondary free school Children's Geographies (IF 1.856) Pub Date : 2020-08-20 Julie Allan, Clara Jørgensen
This article discusses interactions and inclusion at a newly built and recently opened secondary free school in England, presenting findings from a qualitative research project carried out in 2016–...
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Forest as a specific place for girls and their green criticism Children's Geographies (IF 1.856) Pub Date : 2020-08-09 Ulla-Maija Salo
This paper explores what a forest as a specific place means and does for girls, while it scrutinises how to understand place and how to consider place methodologically. The girls, called ‘forest da...
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Indian parents’ perception of children's independent mobility in urban neighbourhoods: a case study of Delhi Children's Geographies (IF 1.856) Pub Date : 2020-07-21 Megha Tyagi, Gaurav Raheja
Parents’ role, as primary decision-makers, is critical in granting independent mobility permissions to children within local surroundings. This paper aims to explore the parental perception of chil...
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Bracelets around their wrists, bracelets around their worlds: materialities and mobilities in (researching) young children's lives Children's Geographies (IF 1.856) Pub Date : 2020-07-07 Susana Cortés-Morales
While the study of children's everyday mobility has focused on school-aged children and their everyday corporeal movements, this paper – based on mobilities, new materialisms and post-human perspec...
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Navigating the neighbourhood: gender, place and agency in children’s mobility Children's Geographies (IF 1.856) Pub Date : 2020-07-04 Libby Porter, Ceridwen Spark, Lisa de Kleyn
Children have an intrinsic right to urban space. Yet children’s perspectives and agency are largely absent from research and public policy on issues that concern them. Common conceptualisations of ...
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Lost futures? Educated youth precarity and protests in the Oromia region, Ethiopia Children's Geographies (IF 1.856) Pub Date : 2020-07-03 Tatek Abebe
ABSTRACT Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork, this article explores the connections between young people's livelihoods, education and visions of the future in Ethiopia. It engages with educated youth's narratives of precarity, dispossession, and ‘intimate exclusions,’ discussing how development has impacted rural livelihoods. Educated youth protests in the Oromia region reveal how shortages of farmland
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Adolescents’ daily places to discover nightlife in Barcelona, Spain Children's Geographies (IF 1.856) Pub Date : 2020-07-03 Margot Mecca
The paper explores the connections between nightlife leisure, everyday places and young people in the transition towards adulthood. When thinking about the discovery of nightlife, the places where ...
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Childhood prism research: an approach for enabling unique childhood studies contributions within the wider scholarly field Children's Geographies (IF 1.856) Pub Date : 2020-07-03 Hanne Warming
ABSTRACT This article outlines a childhood prism research program with a view to encouraging unique childhood research contributions to the wider scholarly field. It is argued that such a program must embrace both classical and emergent lines of thinking, and be underpinned by a unique childhood studies identity. Besides the fact that childhood offers a unique case for exploring many issues, its potential
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(Cyber)Bullying in schools – when bullying stretches across cON/FFlating spaces Children's Geographies (IF 1.856) Pub Date : 2020-06-28 Tabea Bork-Hüffer, Belinda Mahlknecht, Katja Kaufmann
ABSTRACT This article posits that analyses of (cyber)bullying among digitally connected young people need to explore the interdependences, intersections and cON/FFlation of bullying in ONline and OFFline spaces. It combines digital geographers’ works on relationalities between digital and offline spaces with studies on children’s and young people’s geographies and digitization as well as with interdisciplinary
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Unpacking the ethics of access and safety of participants and researchers of child sexual abuse in Ghana Children's Geographies (IF 1.856) Pub Date : 2020-06-25 Ummu Markwei, Peace Mamle Tetteh
Despite the generous legislative environments that protects children from sexual abuse, the magnitude of child sexual abuse has not changed much in most societies across the globe, especially in Af...
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Place as partner: material and affective intra-play between young people and trees Children's Geographies (IF 1.856) Pub Date : 2020-06-25 A. Goodenough, S. Waite, N. Wright
ABSTRACT A collaboration between the third sector and a university in Southwest England, the Good from Woods project investigated wellbeing outcomes of time spent in woodland through action research by a range of woodland practitioners. The research reported in this article explores relations between children aged 3–15 years and trees in an adventure playground set in woodland regrowth on an old municipal
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Children displaced across borders: charting new directions for research from interdisciplinary perspectives Children's Geographies (IF 1.856) Pub Date : 2020-06-20 Sergei Shubin, Melinda Lemke
ABSTRACT This paper introduces the special issue on Children Displaced Across Borders, tied to the outcomes of the conference held in Swansea in 2016. It explores discussions in migration research that attend to different meanings of the ‘border’ in relation to varied displacements of children. It starts with the discussion about the boundaries of migrant subjectivities and brings into question the
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