A01=Ann Marie F. Murnaghan
A01=Laura J. Shillington
Author_Ann Marie F. Murnaghan
Author_Laura J. Shillington
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childhood geographies
Children's Geographies
children's perspectives in urban environments
city
Dense
ecological urban planning
ecologies
Environmental Issues
environmental justice
environments
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fukuoka
Fukuoka City
Harlem River
Los Angeles2
marginal
Natural Public Space
Natural Sand
Nature Polygons
people
peoples
Play Sand
political
Positive Youth Development
Sand Pile
School Ground Greening
Self-and Collective Efficacy
socio-natural relations
Street Views
Surf Camp
Surf City
UK Definition
UN
urban
Urban Nature
Urban Political Ecologies
urban political ecology
young
Young Man
Young People's Environments
Young People's Presence
Young People's Relation
youth participation
Product details
- ISBN 9781472453174
- Weight: 600g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 27 May 2016
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Why does the way we think about urban children and urban nature matter? This volume explores how dichotomies between nature/culture, rural/urban, and child/adult have structured our understandings about the place of children and nature in the city. By placing children and youth at the center of re-theorising the city as a socio-natural space, the book illustrates how children and youth's relations to and with nature can change adultist perspectives and help create more ecologically and socially just cities. As a key contribution to children's studies, the book engages and enlivens debates in urban political ecology and urban theory, which have not yet treated age as an important axis of difference. With examples from ten localities, the chapters in this volume ask how we can subvert both romanticized and modernist conceptualizations of nature and childhood that conflate innocence and purity with children and nature; the volume asks what happens when we re-invent urban natures with children's needs and perspectives in mind.
Ann Marie F. Murnaghan is Research Associate at the Centre for Research in Young People's Texts and Cultures at University of Winnipeg, Canada.
Laura J. Shillington is faculty in Geosciences at John Abbott College and Research Associate at the Loyola Sustainability Research Centre at Concordia University, Canada.
