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Children, Young People and Critical Geopolitics
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224 Pages
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Young people, and in particular children, have typically been marginalised in geopolitical research, positioned as too young to understand or relate to the adult-dominated world of international relations. Integrating current debates in critical geopolitics and political geography with research in children’s geographies, childhood studies and youth research, this book sets out an agenda for the... Read more
1: Introducing Children's and Young People's Critical Geopolitics; 2: Crossing Points: Contesting Militarism in the Spaces of Children's Everyday Lives in Britain and Germany; 3: Children, Young People and the Everyday Geopolitics of British Military Recruitment; 4: Ludic - or Playful - Geopolitics; 5: Children's Emotional Geographies and the Geopolitics of Division in Cyprus; 6: Life, Love, and Activism on the Forgotten Margins of the Nation State; 7: Young Falkland Islanders and Diplomacy in the South Atlantic; 8: 'Dear Prime Minister ...' Mapping Island Children's Political Views on Climate Change; 9: Critical Geopolitics of Child and Youth Migration in (Post)socialist Laos; 10: Young People's Engagement with the Geopolitics of Anti-Apartheid Solidarity in 1980s' London; 11: Becoming Geopolitical in the Everyday World; 12: Conclusion
Biography
Matthew C. Benwell is Lecturer in Human Geography and Peter Hopkins is Professor of Social Geography, both in the School of Geography, Politics and Sociology at Newcastle University, UK.
'For those considering how everyday life is imbricated in geopolitics, this volume is a must-have. While its most obvious contribution can be found in foregrounding the role of children and young people in geopolitics, I think it more broadly pushes us to think carefully about the spaces and times in which geopolitical agency emerges in unexpected ways.’ Jason Dittmer, University College London, UK ’How do children see and respond to prevailing geopolitical imaginaries in their everyday lives? Benwell and Hopkins have assembled an outstanding volume that advances both critical geopolitics and children’s geographies by probing their subjectivities and the quotidian ways in which they are militarised. Children should be seen, heard, and understood as actors who are not merely the humanitarian victims of violent wars, but brokers and makers of geopolitical knowledge. Drawing on emotional, feminist, and other intimate geopolitics, the authors in this collection mobilise rich original research to foreground the agency and relationships of young people to geopolitics, from Laos to London, India to Cyprus, Australia to the Falkland Islands, and more.’ Jennifer Hyndman, York University, Canada
