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Growing-up in the Countryside: Children and the Rural Idyll.
- H. Matthews, Mark Taylor, K. Sherwood, F. Tucker, M. Limb
- Geography
- 1 April 2000
‘They don’t like girls hanging around there’: conflicts over recreational space in rural Northamptonshire
- F. Tucker, H. Matthews
- Economics
- 1 June 2001
This paper provides new insights into girls' use of recreational spaces within rural areas. We draw upon data from in-depth discussion work with 10–14 year old girls undertaken in rural…
Sameness or Difference? Exploring Girls' Use of Recreational Spaces
- F. Tucker
- Psychology
- 1 March 2003
Recent publications within childhood studies have advocated the use of the concept of generation in understanding children's everyday lives. In this paper meanings of generation are explored and the…
Children, young people and ‘disability’: challenging children's geographies?
- M. Pyer, J. Horton, F. Tucker, S. Ryan, Peter Kraftl
- Geography
- 25 January 2010
This editorial puts forward a selection of papers which were first presented at the 2007 Annual International Conference of the Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers),…
Critical Geographies of Childhood and Youth: Contemporary Policy and Practice
- Peter Kraftl, J. Horton, F. Tucker
- Geography
- 21 March 2012
This original book explores the importance of geographical processes for policies and professional practices related to childhood and youth. Contributors from a wide range of disciplinary backgrounds…
The Road Less Travelled – New Directions in Children's and Young People's Mobility
- J. Barker, Peter Kraftl, J. Horton, F. Tucker
- Psychology
- 4 February 2009
This collection emerges from the intersection of two vibrant, dynamic and expanding academic endeavours. The papers are situated within ‘new’ social-scientific studies of childhood and youth and also…
The challenges of ‘Children's Geographies’: a reaffirmation
- J. Horton, Peter Kraftl, F. Tucker
- Geography
- 23 October 2008
The majority of papers published in this edition of Children’s Geographies were first presented at the New Directions in Children’s Geographies conference held at The University of Northampton, UK,…
Disabilities in academic workplaces: experiences of human and physical geographers
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‘With us, we, like, physically can’t’: Transport, Mobility and the Leisure Experiences of Teenage Wheelchair Users
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‘The show must go on!’ Fieldwork, mental health and wellbeing in Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences
Fieldwork is central to the identity, culture and history of academic Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences (GEES). However, in this paper we recognise that, for many academic staff, fieldtrips…
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