Routledge Spaces of Childhood and Youth Series
Children, Young People and the Future
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By Matthew C. Benwell, Spyros Spyrou, Eleni Theodorou
July 31, 2026
This book explores the intersections between children, childhood, youth and the future and provides critical understandings of how the future is imagined, conceptualised, enlisted, used, negotiated and manipulated to serve diverse political ends and social imaginaries. It foregrounds the value and ...
Public Parks and Playgrounds as Democratic Spaces for Young Children: Playing with Abandon
1st Edition
By Daniel R. Meier
February 06, 2026
This book examines children’s play in public city parks and playgrounds as they pursue their agendas for joy, healing, discovery, and democratic engagement. It offers an understanding of relevant theory and approaches for strengthening public city parks and playgrounds as spaces for children’s ...
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
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By Stuart 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
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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
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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?
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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
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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 ...
After Childhood: Re-thinking Environment, Materiality and Media in Children's Lives
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By Peter Kraftl
December 13, 2021
This book offers a new approach for theorising and undertaking childhood research. It combines insights from childhood and generational studies with object-oriented ontologies, new materialisms, critical race and gender theories to address a range of key, intractable challenges facing children and ...
Intersectionality and Difference in Childhood and Youth: Global Perspectives
1st Edition
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By Nadia von Benzon, Catherine Wilkinson
December 18, 2020
This book explores the alternative experiences of children and young people whose everyday lives contradict ideas and ideals of normalcy from the local to the global context. Presenting empirical research and conceptual interventions from a variety of international contexts, this book seeks to ...
Young People, Rights and Place: Erasure, Neoliberal Politics and Postchild Ethics
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By Stuart Aitken
August 14, 2020
Concern is growing about children’s rights and the curtailment of those rights through the excesses of neoliberal governance. This book discusses children’s spatial and citizenship rights, and the ways young people and their families push against diminished rights.Armed initially with theoretical ...