Children's Geographies and Identity Work
7.5 credits
Reading list, Master's level, 4UK078
Main group 1
- Cele, Sofia, Communicating place: methods for understanding children's experience of place, Stockholm, Acta Universitatis Stockholmiensis, 2006Compulsory
- Children's geographies: playing, living, learning, London, Routledge, 2000Compulsory
- Christensen, Pia Monrad; O'Brien, Margaret, Children in the city: home, neighbourhood and community, London, Routledge/Falmer, 2003Compulsory
- Gill, Valentine, Boundary Crossings, Part of: Children's geographies, 2003, p. 37–52Compulsory
- James, Allison; Jenks, Chris; Prout, Alan, Theorizing childhood., Cambridge ; New York, Polity Press, 1998Compulsory
- Lieberg, Mats, Teenagers and Public Space, Part of: Communication research: an international quarterly, 1995, p. 720–744Compulsory
- Rasmussen, Kim, Places For Children – Children’s Places, Part of: Childhood: a global journal of child research, 2004, p. 155–173Compulsory
- Thorne, Barrie, Gender play: girls and boys in school, Buckingham, Open University Press, 1993Compulsory
- Van der Burgt, Danielle, How children place themselves and others in local space, Part of: Human geography: [a new journal, 2008, p. 257–269Compulsory
- Karsten, Lia, Children's use of public space. The gendered world of the playground, Part of: Childhood: a global journal of child research, vol. 10, no. 4, 2003, p. 457–473Compulsory
Four of the articles below are chosen in consultation with the teacher
- Gustafson, Katarina, Us and Them - children's identity work and social geography in a Swedish school yard, Part of: Ethnography and education, 2009, p. 1–16
- Ekman Ladru, Danielle; Gustafson, Katarina, Children's collective embodiment - Mobility practices and materialities in mobile preschools, 2020
- "'I'm big, you're small. I'm right, you're wrong': the multiple P/politics of 'being young'in new Sustainable Communities." Social & Cultural Geography 22.6 (2021): 828-848, Part of: Children Living in Sustainable Built Environments: New Urbanisms, New Citizens, Routledge, 2017
- Karsten, Lia, 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, 2005, p. 275–290
- Lehto, Satu, and Kristiina Eskelinen., Playing makes it fun' in out-of-school activities: Children's organised leisure., Childhood 27.4 (2020): 545-561.
- Mathisen, Tina, and Sofia Cele., ""Doing belonging": Young former refugees and their active engagement with Norwegian local communities." Fennia 198,1-2 (2020): 39-56., Fennia 198,1-2 (2020): 39-56., 2020
* Compulsory