Children's Unequal Geographies

7.5 credits

Reading list, Master's level, 4PE202

A revised version of the reading list is available.

Main group 1

  • Holt, Louise, Geographies of children, youth and families: an international perspective, London, Routledge, 2011Compulsory
  • Gustafson, K, No-go- area, no-go- school: community discourses, local school market and children's identity work, Part of: Children's geographies, vol. 9, no. 2, 2011, p. 185–203Compulsory
  • Karsten, L, It all used to be better? Different generations on continuity and change in urban children's daily use of space, Part of: Children's geographies, vol. 3, no. 3, 2005, p. 275–290Compulsory
  • Karsten, L, Middle-class childhood and parenting culture in high-rise Hong Kong: on scheduled lives, the school trap and a new urban idyll, Part of: Children's geographies, vol. 13, no. 5, 2015, p. 556–570Compulsory
  • Nordbakke, S, Children's out-of-home leisure activities: changes during the last decade in Norway, Part of: Children's geographies, 2018, p. 1–14Compulsory
  • Phiri, D. T., Rural children's role in buffering household poverty through ganyu (piecework) in Zambia, Part of: Children's geographies, vol. 14, no. 6, 2016, p. 685–700Compulsory
  • Sutton, L, 'They'd only call you a scally if you are poor': the impact of socio-economic status on children's identities, Part of: Children's geographies, vol. 7, no. 3, 2009, p. 277–290Compulsory
  • Thomson, S, 'Territorialising' the primary school playground: deconstructing the geography of playtime, Part of: Children's geographies, vol. 3, no. 1, 2005, p. 63–78Compulsory
  • Ursin, M, 'Wherever I lay my head is home' - young people's experience of home in the Brazilian street environment, Part of: Children's geographies, vol. 9, no. 2, 2011, p. 221–234Compulsory
  • van der Burgt, D, Spatial avoidance or spatial confidence? Young people's agency in the active negotiation of risk and safety in public space, Part of: Children's geographies, vol. 13, no. 2, 2015, p. 181–195Compulsory
  • Porter, G et al., Where dogs, ghosts and lions roam: learning from mobile ethnographies on the journey from school, Part of: Children's geographies, vol. 8, no. 2, 2010, p. 91–105Compulsory
  • Crozier, G et al., White middle‐class parents, identities, educational choice and the urban comprehensive school: dilemmas, ambivalence and moral ambiguity, Part of: British journal of sociology of education., vol. 29, no. 3, 2008, p. 261–272Compulsory
  • Zhang, N, Home divided, home reconstructed: children in rural-urban migration in contemporary China, Part of: Children's geographies, vol. 13, no. 4, 2015, p. 381–397Compulsory

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