Full Description
Almost a third of the 4 billion people living in urban areas today are children, according to the United Nations. By 2050, 70 percent of the world's children will live in cities. Yet how has recent sociological work engaged with children and youth living in cities around the world? What does a focus on children and youth in an urban context mean for researchers working within a variety of sociological frameworks? How have children's and youth's experiences shaped and been shaped by the diverse urban scapes and contexts in which they live?
Sociological Research and Urban Children and Youth brings together cutting-edge work that addresses children's and youth's urban living experiences as well as the social, political, and ecological realities that accompany this. Featuring contributions from Australia, Canada, the U.K., and the United States, the chapters critically engage with core analytical and conceptual issues ranging from relationality to citizenship and belonging, to power, structure, and agency.
Recognizing the potential research with and about young people can have in decision making on multiple levels of policy and service provision, Sociological Research and Urban Children and Youth provides a key foundation for considering the influence of urban environments on young people, and vice versa.
Contents
Children, Youth, and the City; Rachel Berman, Patrizia Albanese, and Xiaobei Chen
Section I. Social Construction and Relationality - Children's & Youth's Relationships to/with Urban Contexts
Chapter 1. School Gardens and the Urban Child; Angela Oulton and Susan Jagger
Chapter 2. Use of Digital Spaces for Cosplay by Autistic Youth for Social Interaction, In Lieu of Material Spaces within Urban Contexts; Alice Leyman
Chapter 3. The Digital Mediation of Everyday Lives in the City: Young People Negotiating Troubled Transitions during Covid-19; Lucas Walsh, Cathy Waite, Beatriz Gallo Cordoba, and Masha Mikola
Section II. Citizenship, Space, and Belonging
Chapter 4. Inclusion in the Non-Inclusive Community: Exploring Children's Exclusion from the Urban Planning Process in Iran; Bahar Manouchehri, Edgar A. Burns, Ayyoob Sharifi, and Sina Davoudi
Chapter 5. Spaces for Play: Intergenerational Community Development of an Urban Park in the East Midlands of England; Linda Jane Shaw
Chapter 6. Race, Educational Streaming, and Identity Formation amongst Stem-Bound Asian Canadian Youth; Alex Bing
Section III. Power, Structure and Agency
Chapter 7. Students Fight Back against School Censorship; Christine Emeran
Chapter 8. Cycles and Spaces of Child Poverty in Ontario; Sydney Chapados
Chapter 9. Benefits of the Child Friendly Cities Initiative; Pamela Wridt, Danielle Goldberg, Yvonne Vissing, Kristi Rudelius-Palmer, Maddy Wegner, and Adrianna Zhang
