Geographies of young people [electronic resource] : the morally contested spaces of identity / Stuart C. Aitken.
The Geographies of Young People traces the changing scientific and societal notions of what it is to be a young person, and argues that there is a need to rethink how we view childhood spaces, child development and the politics of growing up. This book brings coherency to the growing field of childr...
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Routledge,
2001.
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| Series: | Critical geographies.
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Halftitle; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures; Preface; List of Acknowledgments; 1. Putting young people in their place; Encountering young people 1: the cave; Encountering young people 2: the Zócalo; Geography and the study of children; Critical children's geographies; 2. From the ground up: Natural developments; Scientific and biological discourses; The natural child; The developing child; Child-centered pedagogy and the ordered child; The socially constructed child and post-structural accounts of development; 3. Learning through the body; Placing the body.
- Studying children's bodiesMignontage: the shaping of bodies; 4. Draped outside in and hung inside out: Embodying sex and race; Innocence and the sexual child; Getting it right; Alterity, space and embodiment; Transgressive and geographically embedded bodies; Children embedded in object relations; 5. Material transformations: Local children in global places; Transforming childhood; Globalization and the reconstitution of reproduction; Unhinging the local and the indeterminacy of the global child; 6. Destined to suffer the most; The unchildlike child; Rethinking last century's childhood.
- 7. A space to play and a time for justiceCritical moral geographies; Epilogue; Bibliography; Index.