Product Description

This book is an overview of a rapidly expanding area of cutting edge research. Drawing on original research and extensive case studies from around the world, it analyses children's experiences of playing, living and learning.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #411475 in Books
• Published on: 2000-05-18
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 304 pages

Review
'For anyone interested in perceptions of childhood and children's use of public space, this book, the first of it's kind, is an interesting and valuable contribution to an emerging and increasingly interesting knowledge base. A fascinating and detailed look at how children from widely differing pats of the world spend their free time and use public open spaces.' - Issy Cole-Hamilton, Policy and Research Officer, Children's Play Council for Children's Society published in association with the National Children's Bureau

'This is an important book ... It provides an interesting and thought-provoking read, and offers a good base for what is an important developing sub discipline in geographical thinking. It is pleasing to see the quality of research projects upon which the discourses are based.' - International Journal of Population Geography

From the Back Cover
Childrens Geographies presents an overview of a rapidly expanding area of cutting-edge research. Drawing on original research in Europe, North and South America, Africa and Asia, the book analyses childrens experiences of playing, living and learning.
The diverse case studies range from an historical analysis of gender relations in nineteenth century North American playgrounds, through to childrens experiences of after-school care in contemporary Britain, to street cultures amongst homeless children in Indonesia at the end of the twentieth century. Threaded through this empirical diversity, is a common engagement with current debates about the nature of childhood.
The individual chapters draw on contemporary sociological understandings of childrens competence as social actors. In so doing they not only illustrate the importance of such an approach to our understandings of childrens geographies, they also contribute to current debates about spatiality in the new social studies of childhood.

About the Author
Sarah L. Holloway is Lecturer in Human Geography at Loughborough University; she is co-author of Geographies of New Femininities. Gill Valentine is Professor of Human Geography at the University of Sheffield; her numerous publicationss include co-authoring Consuming Geographies, Cool Places and Mapping Desire, all published by Routledge.

Prof. Stuart Aitken, San Diego State University, USA, Shaun Fielding, University of Birmingham, UK, Dr Sarah Holloway, Dr Gill Valentine and Dr Nick Bingham, all at Loughborough University, UK, Dr Allison James, Dr Pia Christensen and Prof. Chris Jenks, all at the University of Hull, UK, Dr Owain Jones, University of Bristol, UK, Dr John McKendrick, Prof Mike Bradford and Anna Fielding, all at Glasgow Caledonian University, UK, Prof Hugh Matthews, Dr Melanie Limb and Mark Taylor, all at Nene College, UK, Dr Sam Punch, University of Stirling, UK, Elsbeth Robson and Nicola Ansell, both at University of Keele, UK, Dr Tracey Skelton, Nottingham Trent University, UK, Dr Fiona Smith and John Barker, Brunel University, UK, Dr Lily Kong, National University of Singapore, Liz Gagen, University of Cambridge, UK, Harriet Beazley, University of Cambridge, UK