Diverse Spaces of Childhood and Youth
Diverse Spaces of Childhood and Youth focuses on the diverse spaces and discourses of children and youth globally. The chapters explore the influence of gender, age and other socio-cultural differences, such as race, ethnicity and migration trajectories, on the everyday lives of children and youth in a range of international contexts. These include the diverse urban environments of Istanbul, Copenhagen, Helsinki, Toronto, London, and Bratislava and the contrasting rural settings of Ghana and England. The analyses of childrens, young peoples, parents and professionals experiences and discourses provide critical insights into how gender and other socio-cultural differences intersect. The importance of everyday practices and performances in the formation of childrens and young peoples identities is revealed, through for example, friendships and everyday sociality, mobilities and movements across space in both rural and urban environments.
The volume shows how discourses of childhood and youth, particularly those associated with risk, intersect with difference. The recognition of young peoples agency and participation is central to many of the chapters, whilst also raising methodological questions about how discourses of childhood and youth are researched. Overall, the book provides an original contribution to geographies of children, youth and families and research on diversity and difference in global contexts.
This book was published as a special issue of Childrens Geographies.
Ruth Evans is a Lecturer in Human Geography at the University of Reading, UK. Using qualitative participatory methodologies, her recent research has investigated the experiences of children caring for parents with HIV in Tanzania and the UK, sibling care in youth-headed households in East Africa, and access to land, gender and inter-generational relations in West Africa.
Louise Holt is a Senior Lecturer in Human Geography at Loughborough University, UK. Her research interests focus on socio-spatial processes of exclusion, inclusion, embodiment and identity, and social capital. She has explored these theoretical and conceptual themes in empirical research investigating children, young people and families, disability, gentrification, and urban change.
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Contents
Ruth Evans and Louise Holt
Matej Blazek
Caitrona N Laoire
Karen Wells
Rosa Mas Giralt
Kim Kullman and Charlotte Palludan
Elizabeth Brown
Phoebe Foy-Phillips and Sally Lloyd-Evans
Gina Porter, Kate Hampshire, Albert Abane, Augustine Tanle, Kobina Esia-Donkoh, Regina Obilie Amoako-Sakyi, Samuel Agblorti and Samuel Asiedu Owusu
Jenny Parkes and Anna Conolly
E. Tezel
Danielle Leahy Laughlin and Laura C. Johnson
R. Parnell and M. Patsarika
Maria Prats Ferret, Mireia Baylina and Anna Ortiz
Citation Information
The chapters in this book were originally published in Childrens Geographies, volume 9, issues 3-4 (August November 2011). When citing this material, please use the original page numbering for each article, as follows:
Chapter 1
Introduction: Diverse spaces of childhood and youth: gender and other socio-cultural differences
Ruth Evans and Louise Holt
Childrens Geographies, volume 9, issues 3-4 (August November 2011) pp. 277-284
Chapter 2
Place, childrens friendships, and the formation of gender identities in a Slovak urban neighbourhood
Matej Blazek
Childrens Geographies, volume 9, issues 3-4 (August November 2011) pp. 285-302
Chapter 3
Girls just like to be friends with people: gendered experiences of migration among children and youth in returning Irish migrant families
Caitrona N Laoire
Childrens Geographies, volume 9, issues 3-4 (August November 2011) pp. 303-318
Chapter 4
The strength of weak ties: the social networks of young separated asylum seekers and refugees in London
Karen Wells
Childrens Geographies, volume 9, issues 3-4 (August November 2011) pp. 319-330
Chapter 5
In/visibility strategies and enacted diversity: sameness and belonging among young people of Latin American descent living in the north of England (UK)
Rosa Mas Giralt
Childrens Geographies, volume 9, issues 3-4 (August November 2011) pp. 331-346
Chapter 6
Rhythmanalytical sketches: agencies, school journeys, temporalities
Kim Kullman and Charlotte Palludan
Childrens Geographies, volume 9, issues 3-4 (August November 2011) pp. 347-360
Chapter 7
The unchildlike child: making and marking the child/adult divide in the juvenile court
Elizabeth Brown
Childrens Geographies, volume 9, issues 3-4 (August November 2011) pp. 361-378
Chapter 8
Shaping childrens mobilities: expectations of gendered parenting in the English rural idyll
Phoebe Foy-Phillips and Sally Lloyd-Evans
Childrens Geographies, volume 9, issues 3-4 (August November 2011) pp. 379-394
Chapter 9
Mobility, education and livelihood trajectories for young people in rural Ghana: a gender perspective
Gina Porter, Kate Hampshire, Albert Abane, Augustine Tanle, Kobina Esia-Donkoh, Regina Obilie Amoako-Sakyi, Samuel Agblorti and Samuel Asiedu Owusu
