Politics, Citizenship and Rights, 1st ed. 2016 Geographies of Politics, Participation, Resistance, and Rights Geographies of Children and Young People Series, Vol. 7

This volume explores the political geographies of children and young people and aims to cement this research area within human geography and beyond. Indeed, the policies that specifically target young individuals and groups, and the politics in the everyday lives of children and youth across all scalar dimensions deserve broad attention. The book is structured in four sections with specific focus on the spatialities of the rights of the child, children and young people?s agency in politics, youthful practice as political resistance, and active youth citizenship. In the 28 chapters, a total of 43 authors based in 14 different countries explicate how issues of youthful citizenship, children?s rights, and children and young people's political agencies cross disciplinary, methodological and theoretical boundaries, with notable geographical variation. Particular attention falls on children and young people?s active roles in different kinds of political situations,environments, processes, and practices. The volume also emphasises that there is scope for future research, not least because of the shifting (geo)political landscapes across the globe.

1. Defining Children’s Rights to Work and Care in Sub-Saharan Africa: Tensions and Challenges in Policy and Practice.- 2. Privatized Rights, Segregated Childhoods: A Critical Analysis of Neoliberal Education Policy in India.- 3. Creating Spaces to Care: Children’s Rights and Food Practices in Residential Care.- 4. Making Space for Listening to Children in Ireland: State Obligations, Children’s Voices, and Meaningful Opportunities in Education.- 5. Paradoxical Moments in Children’s Contemporary Lives: Childhoods in East Asia.- 6. Youthful Political Presence: Right, Reality and Practice of the Child.- 7. Children and Young People’s Political Participation: A Critical Analysis.- 8. Brain-Targeted Teaching and the Biopolitical Child.- 9. Youth as Geopolitical Subjects: The Case of Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina.- 10. “Down the Toilet”: Spatial Politics and Young Children’s Participation.- 11. Children’s Embodied Politics of Exclusion and Belonging in Public Space.- 12. Counter-Mapping for Social Justice.- 13. Beyond Crisis Narratives: Changing Modes and Repertoires of Political Participation Among Young People.- 14. Existence as Resistance: Children and Politics of Play in Palestine.- 15. The Art of Not Been Governed: Street Children and Youth in Siem Reap, Cambodia.- 16. Female Political Morality in Palestine: Children’s Perspectives.- 17. Young People and the Cultural Politics of Paradise.- 18. Impact of Social Media on Chilean Student Movement.- 19. Between Exclusion and Political Engagement: Conceptualizing Young People’s Everyday Politics in the Postwar Setting of Sri Lanka.- 20. Dissent and Youth Citizenship.- 21. A Genealogy of the “Everyday” Within Young People’s Citizenship Studies.- 22. Negotiating Active Citizenship: Young People’s Participation in Everyday Spaces.- 23. Young People and Citizenship in Rural Estonia: An Everyday Perspective.- 24. Theatre and Citizenship: Young People’s Participatory Spaces.- 25. Contending with Multicultural Citizenship ina Divided Society: Perspectives from Young People in Tallinn, Estonia.- 26. Learning Citizenship: Civility, Civil Society, and the Possibilities of Citizenship.- 27. NGOs and the Making of Youth Citizenship in Lebanon.- 28. Representing, Reproducing, and Reconfiguring the Nation: Geographies of Youth Citizenship and Devolution.- Index.

Dr. Kirsi Pauliina Kallio is Research Fellow with the Academy of Finland, based at the University of Tampere Space and Political Agency Research Group (SPARG) that is part of the Centre of Excellence in Research on the Relational and Territorial Politics of Bordering, Identities and Transnationalization (RELATE). Major themes in her work are political subjectivity and agency, subject formation and spatial socialization, transnational children’s rights, children’s and young people’s political geographies, and lived citizenship. In her research, she seeks to develop theories of the subject, relational spatiality, and experiential politics, to create better understanding about human agency as contextually political. She has also worked extensively on the political significance of youthful agency. Dr. Kallio has published extensively in international human geography and childhood studies, including journal articles such as Subject, Action and Polis: Theorizing Political Agency (Progress in Human Geography), The Global as a Field: Children’s Rights Advocacy as a Transnational Practice (Environment and Planning D: Society and Space), Lived Citizenship as the Locus of Political Agency in Participatory Policy (Citizenship Studies), and Tracing Children’s Politics (Political Geography); edited collections Critical Political Geography (ACME), The Beginning of Politics (Routledge), Children and Young People’s Politics in Everyday Life (Space and Polity), and Transnational Lived Citizenship (Global Networks); as well as book chapters like Children’s Political Geographies (Companion to Political Geography), Intergenerational Recognition as Political Practice (Intergenerational Space), and Becoming Geopolitical in the Everyday World (Children, Young People and Critical Geopolitics). In her current research project “Political Presence as a Right of the Child,” she studies children’s and young p