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Tables of Contents for Children's Geographies
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
List of plates
x
List of maps
xi
List of tables
xii
Notes on contributors
xiii
Acknowledgements
xvii
Children's geographies and the new social studies of childhood
1
28
Sarah L. Holloway
Gill Valentine
PART 1 Playing
Melting geography: purity, disorder, childhood and space
29
19
Owain Jones
Children's strategies for creating playspaces: negotiating independence in rural Bolivia
48
15
Samantha Punch
The `street as thirdspace'
63
17
Hugh Matthews
Melanie Limb
Mark Taylor
`Nothing to do, nowhere to go?': teenage girls and `public' space in the Rhondda Valleys, South Wales
80
20
Tracey Skelton
Time for a party!: making sense of the commercialisation of leisure space for children
100
19
John H. Mckendrick
Michael G. Bradford
Anna V. Fielder
PART 2 Living
Play, rights and borders: gender-bound parents and the social construction of children
119
20
Stuart C. Aitken
Home and movement: children constructing `family time'
139
17
Pia Christensen
Allison James
Chris Jenks
Transforming cyberspace: children's interventions in the new public sphere
156
18
Gill Valentine
Sarah L. Holloway
Nick Bingham
Young carers in Southern Africa: exploring stories from Zimbabwean secondary school students
174
20
Elsbeth Robson
Nicola Ansell
Home sweet home?: Street children's sites of belonging
194
19
Harriott Beazley
PART 3 Learning
Playing the part: performing gender in America's playgrounds
213
17
Elizabeth A. Gagen
Walk on the left!: Children's geographies and the primary school
230
15
Shaun Fielding
`Out of school', in school: a social geography of out of school childcare
245
12
Fiona Smith
John Barker
Nature's dangers, nature's pleasures: urban children and the natural world
257
15
Lily Kong
Index
272