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  • FILM LANDSCAPES OF GLOBAL YOUTH
    STUART C. AITKEN, JACOB ROWLETT
    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 within the intersections of geography, film theory, and children’s studies. It cont...

    $1,240.00

  • YOUNG PEOPLE, RIGHTS AND PLACE
    STUART AITKEN
    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 concerns about the construction of children through the political status quo and ...

    $1,200.00

  • THE AWKWARD SPACES OF FATHERING
    STUART C. AITKEN
    Societal notions of fathers have evolved from the distant breadwinner through genial dad and masculine role model to today's equal co-parent. This book seeks to explore the spaces and movements of men-as-fathers. Weaving together theories of space, sexuality and political identity with the stories of fathers from a range of sources, including popular culture, it discusses the w...

    $1,460.00

  • THE ETHNOPOETICS OF SPACE AND TRANSFORMATION
    STUART C. AITKEN
    Change is inevitable, we are told. A job is lost, a couple falls in love, children leave home, an addict joins Narcotics Anonymous, two nations go to war, a family member's health deteriorates, a baby is born, a universal health care bill is voted into law. Life comprises events over which we have considerable, partial, or little or no control. The distance between the event ...

    $1,560.00

  • YOUNG PEOPLE, BORDER SPACES AND REVOLUTIONARY IMAGINATIONS
    AITKEN, STUART / BOSCO, FERNANDO / HERMAN, THOMAS / SWANSON, KATE
    Drawing from discussions that pulled together child researchers working near the borders of Mexico, the United States and Canada, this book explores how material and metaphoric borders give way to young people's experimentations with cultural, social and political change. The contributors highlight the capacities of children to revolutionize thought and practice through creativ...

    $1,160.00

  • TEACHING CHILDREN WHO ARE DEAFBLIND
    STUART AITKEN, MARIANNA BUULTJENS, CATHERINE CLARK, JANE T. EYRE, LAURA PEASE
    First published in 2000. Resources and training material about children who are deafblind are all too rare. The principles of contact, communication and learning are fundamental; they apply to us all. The process of putting these same principles into practice with children who are deafblind can be complex, incremental and challenging. This book rewards the reader by identifying...

    $1,040.00

  • GLOBAL CHILDHOODS
    STUART AITKEN
    This astute book initiates a broad discussion from a variety of different disciplines about how we place children nationally, globally and within development discourses. Unlike other books of its kind, it does not seek to dwell solely on the abiding complexities of local comparisons. Rather, it elaborates larger concerns about the changing nature of childhood, young people’s ex...

    $1,280.00

  • THE GEOGRAPHIES OF YOUNG PEOPLE
    STUART C AITKEN
    The Geographies of Young People traces the changing scientific and societal notions of what it is to be a young person, and argues that there is a need to rethink how we view childhood spaces, child development and the politics of growing up. This book brings coherency to the growing field of children's geographies by arguing that although most of it does not prescribe solution...

    $1,420.00