Children's Geographies

Abstract

1. Children's geographies and the new social studies of childhood Sarah L. Holloway and Gill Valentine Part I: Playing 2. Melting geography: purity, disorder, childhood and space Owain Jones 3. Children's strategies for creating playspaces: negotiating independence in rural Bolivia Samantha Punch 4. The 'street as thirdspace' Hugh Matthews, Melanie Limb and Mark Taylor 5. 'Nothing to do, nowhere to go'?: teenage girls and 'public' space in the Rhondda Valleys, South Wales Tracey Skelton 6. Time for a party!: making sense of the commercialisation of leisure space for children John H. McKendrick, Michael G. Bradford and Anna V. Fielding Part II: Living 7. Play, rights and borders: gender bound parents and the social construction of children Stuart C. Aitken 8. Home and movement: children constructing 'family time' Pia Christensen, Allison James and Chris Jenks 9. Transforming cyberspace: children's interventions in the new public sphere Gill Valentine, Sarah L, Holloway and Nick Bingham 10. Young carers in Southern Africa? Exploring stories from Zimbabwean secondary school students Elsbeth Robson and Nicola Ansell 11. Home sweet home? Street children's sites of belonging Harriet Beazley Part III: Learning 12. Playing the part: performing gender in American playgrounds Elizabeth A. Gagen 13. Walk on the left! Children's geographies and the primary school Shaun Fielding 14. 'Out of school', in school: a social geography of out of school childcare Fiona Smith and John Barker 15. Nature's dangers, nature's pleasures: urban children and the natural Lily Kong