| Description |
xvii, 275 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm |
| Series |
Critical geographies |
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Critical geographies.
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| Contents |
1. Children's geographies and the new social studies of childhood / Sarah L. Holloway and Gill Valentine -- Pt. 1. Playing. 2. Melting geography: purity, disorder, childhood and space / Owen 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. Fielder -- Pt. 2. 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 / Harriott Beazley -- Pt. 3. Learning. 12. Playing the part: performing gender in America's 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 world / Lily Kong |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Children.
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Human geography.
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| Author |
Valentine, Gill, 1965-
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| LC no. |
99056246 |
| ISBN |
0415207290 (cased) |
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0415207304 (paperback) |
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