ISBN:
9780415223942
Sprache:
Englisch
Seiten:
Online-Ressource (401 p)
Serie:
Critical Geographies
Paralleltitel:
Print version The Geographies of Young People : The Morally Contested Spaces of Identity
DDC:
304.2083
Schlagwort(e):
Electronic books
Kurzfassung:
This book traces some of 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
Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis:
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
Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis:
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
Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis:
7. A space to play and a time for justiceCritical moral geographies; Epilogue; Bibliography; Index
Anmerkung:
Description based upon print version of record
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