1st Edition
Young People, Rights and Place Erasure, Neoliberal Politics and Postchild Ethics
1. The postchild and the law thing 2. Locating young people's rights 3. Play, erasure, and sustainable ethics 4. Codifying state erasure in post-independence Slovenia 5. Youth movement rights 6. Re-thinking the presence and protests of young people 7. Sustaining young people through relational ethics
Biography
Stuart C. Aitken is June Burnett Chair and Distinguished Professor of Geography at San Diego State University. His research interests include critical social theory, qualitative methods, children, families and communities. Stuart has worked with the UN on child rights, labor and migration issues. His previous books include The Ethnopoetics of Space: Young People’s Engagement, Activism and Aesthetics (2016), The Fight to Stay Put (2013), Young People, Border Spaces and Revolutionary Imaginations (2011), Qualitative Geographies (2010), The Awkward Spaces of Fathering (2009), Global Childhoods (2008), Geographies of Young People (2001), Family Fantasies and Community Space (1998), and Place, Space, Situation and Spectacle (1994). He has published over 200 articles in academic journals as well as in various edited book collections and encyclopedias. Stuart is past co-editor of The Professional Geographer and Children’s Geographies.
