The Geographies of Young People: The Morally Contested Spaces of Identity
, by Aitken,Stuart CNote: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.
- ISBN: 9780415223942 | 0415223946
- Cover: Hardcover
- Copyright: 8/9/2001
Anxieties over children's safety or teenage propensities towards violence and sex have precipitated a moral panic in a large swathe of our society. This provocative work traces the changing scientific and societal notions of what it is to be a young person, and argues that there is a need to rethink how we view childhood spaces, child development and the politics of growing up. The book challenges popular myths that evoke general notions of childhood as a natural stage in the development towards adulthood and offers alternative theories that value the embodiment and local embeddedness of young people.