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Changing children's geographies

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posted on 2014-10-30, 11:43 authored by Sarah HollowaySarah Holloway
This keynote explores the changing nature of children's geographies as an academic project. It proceeds in four parts. Part 1 considers the shift away from research on children's spatial cognition which envisaged the child in largely biological terms, and contemplates contemporary efforts to rework the nature/culture dualism. Part 2 traces the incorporation of new social studies of childhood into geography, emphasising the importance of children's voices, their positioning within axes of power, and the need for quantitative and qualitative methods. Part 3 explores how feminist research led to interest in parents, educators and other actors/institutions which shape, and are shaped by, children's lives. Part 4 ponders what children's geographies might add to, and learn from, broader interdisciplinary debates, and the benefits and pitfalls of research impact. The conclusion argues that a well-informed appreciation of sub-disciplinary history provides a strong vantage point from which to engage with new ways of thinking.

Funding

Philip Leverhulme Prize; ESRC award [RES-000-22-4095]; British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship

History

School

  • Social Sciences

Department

  • Geography and Environment

Published in

CHILDRENS GEOGRAPHIES

Volume

12

Issue

4

Pages

377 - 392 (16)

Citation

HOLLOWAY, S.L., 2014. Changing children's geographies. Children's Geographies, 12 (4), pp. 377 - 392.

Publisher

© 2014 The Author(s). Published by Taylor & Francis.

Version

  • VoR (Version of Record)

Publisher statement

This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

Publication date

2014

Notes

This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

ISSN

1473-3285

Language

  • en