Human Geography by Tracey Skelton
Friendships are an important part of what makes us, and our geographies of various kinds, human. ... more Friendships are an important part of what makes us, and our geographies of various kinds, human. We consider
how geographers can contribute to efforts to afford friendship greater prominence in the social sciences. The
main part of the article considers three strands of work on friendship that push the boundaries of research in
human geography: (1) geographies of affect/emotion and the ontological construction of the human; (2) children’s
and young people’s geographies and the (re)production of social ordering; and (3) geographies of mobility and
transnationalism in a world of increased human spatial movement and social relations at a distance.
Papers by Tracey Skelton
Springer eBooks, 2016
Geographies of Children and Young People is a Major Reference Work comprising 12 volumes that pul... more Geographies of Children and Young People is a Major Reference Work comprising 12 volumes that pulls together the best international reflective and innovative scholarship focusing on younger people. Volumes 1 and 2 establish and critically engage with the theoretical, conceptual, and methodological groundings of this geographical sub-discipline. Volumes 3-11 provide in depth thematic analysis of key topical areas pertinent to children's and young people's lives: space, place and environment; identities and subjectivities; families and peer groups; movement and mobilities; politics and citizenship; global issues and change; play and well-being; learning and labouring; conflict and peace. Volume 12 connects both academic, policy, and practitioner based work around protection and provision.
Springer eBooks, 2016
The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this p... more The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use.
Children's Geographies, Nov 1, 2012
In July 2012 (11–13th) the Department of Geography and the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (F... more In July 2012 (11–13th) the Department of Geography and the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) at the National University of Singapore hosted the 3rd International Conference on Geographies of Children, Young People and Families (3rdICGCYP&F). The previous two conferences in the series were both held in Europe, in Reading, UK, in 2007 and Barcelona, Spain, 2009. Members of the Geographies of Children, Youth and Families Research Group of the Royal Geographical Society UK, initiated the conference series. This third conference was awarded partial sponsorship by Taylor and Francis; the publishers of the international journal, Children’s Geographies, and this funded the first evening conference reception (Wednesday 11th July). The conference was directly assisted by funding through the NUS FASS Conference Grant Scheme and the FASS Family, Children and Youth Research Cluster (CYFRC). The financial support from FASS and the CYFRC provided registration subsidies for postgraduates, who constituted about half of the 70 plus delegates. It also funded the attendance of three keynote speakers and three youth activists who presented special sessions at the conference. As Conference Organiser and Chair there were four key aims and aspirations I had for this 3rd International Conference; this report outlines how these were met. The first aim was to actively showcase Asian scholarship and academic work focused in Asia. The second was to put the key goals of the journal, Children’s Geographies, into practice. In the first editorial, its chief editor, Hugh Matthews (2003) stated that a central ambition of the journal was to ‘be interdisciplinary in its scope and cross-disciplinary in the ways it attempts to straddle the multifarious realms of contemporary childhoods’ (p. 3), young people under 25, and their families. The conference achieved both these two aims (as detailed below). A third aspiration was to create an intellectual and social meeting space, without hierarchy, for international scholarly exchange. The conference attracted delegates from 25 different countries in Asia, Australasia, Europe, North America and Scandinavia; the geographical focus of some of
Geographical Research, Nov 1, 2012
Journal of Geography in Higher Education, Nov 1, 1997
... writes about the interconnections of political economy, sexuality and urban space with case s... more ... writes about the interconnections of political economy, sexuality and urban space with case studies of London and Amsterdam; Angie Hart whose work investigates the different identities found within a Spanish city barrio, with emphasis on the barrio as a prostitution site; and ...
Children's Geographies, Apr 2, 2018
Geographies of Children and Young People is a Major Reference Work comprising 12 volumes that pul... more Geographies of Children and Young People is a Major Reference Work comprising 12 volumes that pulls together the best international reflective and innovative scholarship focusing on younger people. Volumes 1 and 2 establish and critically engage with the theoretical, conceptual, and methodological groundings of this geographical sub-discipline. Volumes 3-11 provide in depth thematic analysis of key topical areas pertinent to children's and young people's lives: space, place and environment; identities and subjectivities; families and peer groups; movement and mobilities; politics and citizenship; global issues and change; play and well-being; learning and labouring; conflict and peace. Volume 12 connects both academic, policy, and practitioner based work around protection and provision.
Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 1996
Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography, Jul 1, 2007
John Connell's paper (this issue, pp. 116-35) is a richly written essay on the ways in which Paci... more John Connell's paper (this issue, pp. 116-35) is a richly written essay on the ways in which Pacific islanders have engaged, critiqued and clashed with both colonialism and various subsequent 'detours of development' that have impacted the region. Connell shows, through his case study material, and case studies of other scholars in the region, that the southern Pacific brings its own unique approach to contemporary development attempts. I use the word 'attempts' purposively, because what is apparent from Connell's writing is that development in the region has been far from successful. A key facet of Connell's argument is that the Pacific (which covers a quarter of the earth's surface) is highly diverse in social, cultural and political constitution, and yet it is possible to talk of a 'Pacific' response to external forces of development. External forces for 'development', which as a counter to the western construction of the region as part of an 'arc of instability' we might call the 'ring of interference', have had differential effects on the Pacific islands through space and time. For some islands of the region, the initial encounters were through colonialism; for others, as sites for the extraction of primary material; and for yet others, through the latter day push towards neoliberalism and models of development. At the same time as these intrusions into Pacific ways of life have been occurring, young Pacific people have been extruded out beyond the Pacific as workers, taking migratory pathways to new places. However, even though migration might at first appear as a flight response to development processes in the home islands and as a reaction to the poverty, conservatism and smallness of island economies and societies, it has a long trajectory. Connell provides evidence of the extensive history of Pacific island culture as one that has always looked outwards. Contemporary migration, therefore, can be construed as a continuation of cultural practices that are part of what it means to be of the Pacific. What Connell argues is that alongside being part of a historical continuity, migration connects with other ancient cultural practices that form contemporary evidence of hybrid and syncretic Pacific alternatives to development. Remittances from migrants become part of traditional customs of gift exchanges that can create more equitable patterns of wealth distribution connecting with cultural practices rather than individualized acquisition. On reading this I was reminded of the ways in which resistances can be worked through in complex ways within everyday society, not just as alternatives as Connell suggests, but also in the form of de Certeau's (1984) 'tactics' or Scott's (1985) 'weapons of the weak'. They are not a direct rejection of hierarchical or external structures, but, rather, subtle ways of doing development differently and embedding these alternatives/tactics/weapons within pre-existing cultural practices.
Space and Polity, Apr 1, 2013
ABSTRACT This review essay covers a decade of scholarship developed by geographers who engage wit... more ABSTRACT This review essay covers a decade of scholarship developed by geographers who engage with children, young people and politics. It first outlines the boundaries within which the review was conducted. It then sets the scene of the starting points in 2003 of the when and where of the scholarship of children's and young people's political geographies. Section 3 provides focus on a wide range of contributions made in order to stake a claim within the wider discipline of Geography and explores the connections made with, and conceptions drawn from, feminist geography. Section 4 examines the ways in which the field has been expanded through conceptualisation and deconstruction of taken-for-granted approaches. Here, the intellectual value of reconsiderations or innovations of the concepts of scale, child and childhood, politics, agency, articulation, geopolitics and critical geopolitics are excavated and explicated. The paper ends with concluding thoughts and pointers towards the next decade of youthful political geographies and provides an extensive reference list covering a wide range of work on the subject.
Geography Compass, May 12, 2009
Geographers play an important role in expanding our understanding of children's lives, socio‐... more Geographers play an important role in expanding our understanding of children's lives, socio‐spatial identities and material practices. As a sub‐discipline, Children's Geographies is experiencing exponential growth throughout the wider discipline of geography. There has been a tendency to corral Children's Geographies into special issues of journals and several of these are reviewed below. However, this article specifically draws upon geographical work cited in many places of the discipline and also highlights work from an extremely wide range of geographies across the globe. This paper provides a review of geographers’ investigations into a very well‐established theme of social science research connected with children, that of play. It considers the spatialities and geographies of children's play (and its counterpoint, work), playing and spaces for play. It also examines the newer and emerging themes of mobilities, children's use of outdoor, public spaces collectively grouped under the term ‘street’, and the role of children in migration and of migration in children's lives. Throughout it considers possibilities for future research with children.
Springer eBooks, 2017
The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this p... more The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use.
Children's Geographies, Dec 1, 2005
... View full textDownload full text Full access. DOI: 10.1080/14733280500353142 Tracey Skelton a... more ... View full textDownload full text Full access. DOI: 10.1080/14733280500353142 Tracey Skelton a ... View all references) and this creates a unique political, social and economic context for many people (Gamaliel Ramos and Israel Rivera, 20011. Gamaliel Ramos, A. and Israel ...
Urban Studies, Jan 24, 2013
There is a mobility turn in the social sciences affecting how we scrutinise, research and represe... more There is a mobility turn in the social sciences affecting how we scrutinise, research and represent the city. In recent scholarship on mobilities, global human mobilities have been identified as predominant. Nevertheless there have been calls for research that focuses on issues relating to everyday transportation, materialities and the spatial contexts of im/mobilities. This article is a response to those calls with a specific focus on young people’s local experiences of urban im/mobilities. It is also a challenge to the lack of attention afforded young people by urban studies. Young urbanites are of an age where personal physical mobility to take advantage of all the resources, recreation and sociality offered by an urban landscape is an important part of ‘growing up’ and identity formation. Utilising two of mobility studies’ conceptualisations, relationality and identity formation, this article examines young Aucklanders’ im/mobilities through urban space.
Routledge eBooks, Aug 18, 2005
Cool Places explores the contrasting experiences of contemporary youth. The chapters draw on tech... more Cool Places explores the contrasting experiences of contemporary youth. The chapters draw on techno music and ecstasy in Germany, clubbing in London, global backpacking and gangs in Santa Cruz as well as expereinces at home, on the streets and seeking employment. The contributors use these examples to explore representation and resistance and geographical concepts of scale and place in young people's lives within social, cultural and feminist studies to focus upon the complexities of youth cultures and their spatial representations and interactions. Contributors: Shane Blackman, Sophie Bowlby, Myrna Margulies Breitbart, Deborah Chambers, Luke Deforges, Claire Dwyer, Keith Hetherington, Cindi Katz, Heinz-Herman Kruger, Marion Leonard, Sally Lloyd Evans, Tim Lucas, Sara McNamee,Ben Malbon, Doreen Massey, Robina Mohammad, David Oswell, David Parker, Birgit Richard, Susan Ruddick, Tracey Skelton, Fiona Smith, Kevin Stevenson, Gill Valentine and Paul Watt
Tijdschrift voor economische en sociale geografie, Mar 2, 2022
Children and young people are everywhere (present) but often nowhere (absent). They can be seen b... more Children and young people are everywhere (present) but often nowhere (absent). They can be seen but not heard, they may use their voice but not be listened to. As a substantially marginalised group of humans, they experience absence and presence in different ways to older people and are confronted with contradictory experiences and recognition. Children and youth face a range of disadvantages in relational comparison of understandings and interpretations of ‘adulthood’. They are described as unready, immature, unformed, citizens‐in‐waiting and caught in interstitial nowhere/everywhere betweenness. However, geographers of children and young people are engaging with political conceptualisations of younger people that provide space for discourse, dialogue and discussion combined with an ethics of seeing, looking, hearing, listening, supporting and including children and young people. This article spins out from the three Dossier papers and weaves a threaded analytical examination of absent/presence and present/absence.
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Human Geography by Tracey Skelton
how geographers can contribute to efforts to afford friendship greater prominence in the social sciences. The
main part of the article considers three strands of work on friendship that push the boundaries of research in
human geography: (1) geographies of affect/emotion and the ontological construction of the human; (2) children’s
and young people’s geographies and the (re)production of social ordering; and (3) geographies of mobility and
transnationalism in a world of increased human spatial movement and social relations at a distance.
Papers by Tracey Skelton
how geographers can contribute to efforts to afford friendship greater prominence in the social sciences. The
main part of the article considers three strands of work on friendship that push the boundaries of research in
human geography: (1) geographies of affect/emotion and the ontological construction of the human; (2) children’s
and young people’s geographies and the (re)production of social ordering; and (3) geographies of mobility and
transnationalism in a world of increased human spatial movement and social relations at a distance.