Strong addition to the growing literature on children, written by an expert in the field
Challenges conventional scientific views on children's cognitive development and the social construction of children and teenagers
Articulates how young people resist the notions of justice taught by institutions, places and mechanistic notions
This book is likely to be a key text for those interested in studying, teaching and researching the geographies of childhood. - Progress in Human Geography
'A useful book for anyone interested in exploring the psychoanalytic and feminist theories which challenge general notions of childhood' - Gender, Place & Culture
This book is likely to be a key text for those interested in studying, teaching and researching the geographies of childhood. - Progress in Human Geography
What Aitken does well is to highlight the social-spatial processes embedded in the moral foundations in the institutions of thought and theory - Mary E Thomas, Environment and Planning
'A useful book for anyone interested in exploring the psychoanalytic and feminist theories which challenge general notions of childhood' - Gender, Place & Culture