Full Description
This volume explores the political geographies of children and young people and aims to cement this research area within human geography and beyond. Indeed, the policies that specifically target young individuals and groups, and the politics in the everyday lives of children and youth across all scalar dimensions deserve broad attention. The book is structured in four sections with specific focus on the spatialities of the rights of the child, children and young people's agency in politics, youthful practice as political resistance, and active youth citizenship. In the 28 chapters, a total of 43 authors based in 14 different countries explicate how issues of youthful citizenship, children's rights, and children and young people's political agencies cross disciplinary, methodological and theoretical boundaries, with notable geographical variation. Particular attention falls on children and young people's active roles in different kinds of political situations,environments, processes, and practices. The volume also emphasises that there is scope for future research, not least because of the shifting (geo)political landscapes across the globe.
Contents
1. Defining Children's Rights to Work and Care in Sub-Saharan Africa: Tensions and Challenges in Policy and Practice.- 2. Privatized Rights, Segregated Childhoods: A Critical Analysis of Neoliberal Education Policy in India.- 3. Creating Spaces to Care: Children's Rights and Food Practices in Residential Care.- 4. Making Space for Listening to Children in Ireland: State Obligations, Children's Voices, and Meaningful Opportunities in Education.- 5. Paradoxical Moments in Children's Contemporary Lives: Childhoods in East Asia.- 6. Youthful Political Presence: Right, Reality and Practice of the Child.- 7. Children and Young People's Political Participation: A Critical Analysis.- 8. Brain-Targeted Teaching and the Biopolitical Child.- 9. Youth as Geopolitical Subjects: The Case of Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina.- 10. "Down the Toilet": Spatial Politics and Young Children's Participation.- 11. Children's Embodied Politics of Exclusion and Belonging in Public Space.- 12. Counter-Mapping for Social Justice.- 13. Beyond Crisis Narratives: Changing Modes and Repertoires of Political Participation Among Young People.- 14. Existence as Resistance: Children and Politics of Play in Palestine.- 15. The Art of Not Been Governed: Street Children and Youth in Siem Reap, Cambodia.- 16. Female Political Morality in Palestine: Children's Perspectives.- 17. Young People and the Cultural Politics of Paradise.- 18. Impact of Social Media on Chilean Student Movement.- 19. Between Exclusion and Political Engagement: Conceptualizing Young People's Everyday Politics in the Postwar Setting of Sri Lanka.- 20. Dissent and Youth Citizenship.- 21. A Genealogy of the "Everyday" Within Young People's Citizenship Studies.- 22. Negotiating Active Citizenship: Young People's Participation in Everyday Spaces.- 23. Young People and Citizenship in Rural Estonia: An Everyday Perspective.- 24. Theatre and Citizenship: Young People's Participatory Spaces.- 25. Contending with Multicultural Citizenship ina Divided Society: Perspectives from Young People in Tallinn, Estonia.- 26. Learning Citizenship: Civility, Civil Society, and the Possibilities of Citizenship.- 27. NGOs and the Making of Youth Citizenship in Lebanon.- 28. Representing, Reproducing, and Reconfiguring the Nation: Geographies of Youth Citizenship and Devolution.- Index.
