Routledge Spaces of Childhood and Youth Series
Children, Securitization, War and Peace: Perspectives from the West
1st Edition
By Kathrin Horschelmann
January 30, 2026
It is not just in ‘failed states’ and dictatorships that children become a key target for military recruitment and the politics of national security. The ‘securitisation’ in western societies today relies equally strongly on the multi-faceted enrolment of children in national and international ...
Film Landscapes of Global Youth: Imagining Young Lives
1st Edition
Edited
By Stuart C. Aitken, Jacob Rowlett
August 29, 2025
This book explores the dynamic landscapes of global youth through spatially grounded chapters focused on film and media. It is a collection of incredible works concerning children and young people in, out, and through media as well as an examination of what is possible for the future of research ...
The Space and Power of Young People's Social Relationships: Immersive Geographies
1st Edition
By Louise Holt
May 27, 2025
The book examines the power of young people’s social relationships in schools to transform, or more often, to continue, differences that pervade societies: mind-body-emotional diff erences or Special Educational Needs and Disability, gender, poverty, race/ethnicity, sexuality and their ...
Diplomatic Families and Children’s Mobile Lives: Experiences of British Diplomatic Service Children from 1945 to 1990
1st Edition
By Sara Hiorns
May 31, 2023
This book is the first of its kind: a historical inquiry into the family life of British diplomats between 1945 and 1990. It examines the ways in which the British Diplomatic Service reacted to and were influenced by the radical social changes that took place in Britain during the latter half of ...
Mapping the Moral Geographies of Education: Character, Citizenship and Values
1st Edition
By Sarah Mills
May 31, 2023
This book explores the growth of ‘character education’ in schools and youth organisations over the last decade. It delves into historical and contemporary debates through a geopolitical lens. With a renewed focus on values and virtues such as grit, gumption, perseverance, resilience, generosity, ...
Why Garden in Schools?
1st Edition
By Lexi Earl, Pat Thomson
May 31, 2023
This book delves into the complex history of the gardening movement in schools and examines the question why gardens should be built in schools. It offers practical guidance for teachers to begin thinking about how to approach educational gardening. A resurgence of interest in school gardens is ...
Latin American Transnational Children and Youth: Experiences of Nature and Place, Culture and Care Across the Americas
1st Edition
Edited
By Victoria Derr, Yolanda Corona
August 01, 2022
Latin American Transnational Children and Youth focuses on understanding young people’s connection to nature and place within a transnational and Latin American context. It serves to diversify, elaborate, and sometimes challenge the assumptions made in researching people and place, and unearths ...
Youth Activism and Solidarity: The non-stop picket against Apartheid
1st Edition
By Gavin Brown, Helen Yaffe
February 07, 2019
From April 1986 until just after Nelson Mandela’s release from prison in February 1990, supporters of the City of London Anti-Apartheid Group maintained a continuous protest, day and night, outside the South African Embassy in central London. This book examines how and why a group of children, ...
Children, Young People and Care
1st Edition
Edited
By John Horton, Michelle Pyer
January 17, 2019
The very notions of childhood and youth are intimately connected to contemporary norms, practices and spaces of care, caring and care-giving. The provision of care is widely figured as both the primary responsibility of parents, carers and practitioners who work with children and young people, and ...
Young Entrepreneurs in Sub-Saharan Africa
1st Edition
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By Katherine V. Gough, Thilde Langevang
February 24, 2017
Young people in sub-Saharan Africa are growing up in rapidly changing social and economic environments which produce high levels of un- and underemployment. Job creation through entrepreneurship is currently being promoted by international organizations, governments and NGOs as a key solution, ...