Play and Recreation, Health and Wellbeing

1. Alcohol Consumption and Geographies of Childhood and Family Life

   • Mark Jayne, Gill Valentine

2. Alternative Childhood Obesity Treatment in Age of Obesity Panic

   • Pamela Ward

3. Children and Medicines

   • Kate Hampshire

4. Children and Young People’s Participation in Cultural Activities

   • Barbro Johansson, Frances Hultgren

5. Children’s Corporeal Agency and Use of Space in Situations of Domestic Violence

   • Joanne H. Alexander, Jane E. M. Callaghan, Judith Sixsmith, Lisa Fellin

6. Children’s Geographies for Activity and Play: An Overview of Measurement Approaches

   • Melody Oliver, Stephanie Schoeppe, Suzanne Mavoa, Scott Duncan, Paul Kelly, Phillip Donovan et al.

7. Children’s Play in their Local Neighborhoods: Rediscovering the Value of Residential Streets

   • Paul Tranter

8. Children’s Play in Urban Areas

   • Sruthi Atmakur-Javdekar

9. Children’s Relations to the More-Than-Human World Beyond Developmental Views

   • Pauliina Rautio, Päivi Jokinen

10. Children’s Spaces of Mental Health: The Built Environment as Places of Meaning

    • Sarah Crafter, Evangelia Prokopiou, Samuel Stein

11. Development of Nature Playgrounds from the 1970s onwards

    • Lianne Verstrate, Lia Karsten

12. Geographies of Maternal Obesity, Eugenics, and the Clinical Space

    • Deborah McPhail, Anthony Huynh

13. Geographies of Trolls, Grief Tourists, and Playing with Digital Transgression

    • Nic Crowe, Mike Watts

14. Geography of Adolescent Anaphylaxis

    • Michael Gallagher, Allison Worth, Sarah Cunningham-Burley, Aziz Sheikh

15. Governing Futures and Saving Young Lives: Willful Smoking Temporalities and Subjectivities

    • Qian Hui Tan

16. Introduction to Play and Recreation, Health and Wellbeing in Geographies of Children and Young People

    • Bethan Evans, John Horton

17. Locking Up Children and Young People: Secure Care in Scotland

    • Anna Katharina Schliehe

18. Ludic Geographies

    • Tara Woodyer, Diana Martin, Sean Carter

19. Mediating Young People’s Knowledge: Framing School-Based Sexuality Education in New Zealand and Canada

    • Tara M. Coleman, Damian Collins, Robin A. Kearns

20. Mental Health of Looked-After Children: Embodiment and Use of Space

    • Jane E. M. Callaghan, Lisa C. Fellin, Joanne H. Alexander

Geographies of children and young people is a rapidly emerging sub-discipline within human geography. There is now a critical mass of established academic work, key names within academia, growing numbers of graduate students and expanding numbers of university level taught courses. There are also professional training programmes at national scales and in international contexts that work specifically with children and young people. In addition to a productive journal of Children’s Geographies, there’s a range of monographs, textbooks and edited collections focusing on children and young people published by all the major academic presses then there is a substantive body of work on younger people within human geography and active authors and researchers working within international contexts to warrant a specific Major Reference Work on children’s and young people’s geographies.
The volumes and sections are structured by themes, which then reflect the broader geographical locations of the research.

• Cultural geography
• Development geography
• Emotional and affective geography
• Feminist geography
• Formation of geographies of children and young peoples

• Department of Geography and Planning, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom

  Bethan Evans

• Centre of Children and Youth, The University of Northampton, Northampton, United Kingdom

  John Horton

• Department of Geography, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore

  Tracey Skelton

Formerly a Professor in Critical Geographies, Loughborough University, UK, Tracey Skelton currently teaches at the National University of Singapore. A prolific writer, and avid researcher, Skelton has written numerous papers in top journals and authored and edited several books. She is an active editorial board member of premium journals in Geography, such as Geoforum, Children’s Geographies, and ACME.

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