Children, Young People and Critical Geopolitics

Young people have been marginalized in geopolitical research, but this book integrates current debates with research in children's geographies, childhood studies, and youth research to show how their lives relate to wider regional and global geopolitical processes. It highlights the ways in which young people can be enrolled, ignored, dismissed, empowered, and represented by the state for geopolitical ends, and how they have agency and make decisions about their lives influenced by wider geopolitical processes.

\n Format: Paperback / softback
\n Length: 224 pages
\n Publication date: 24 January 2018
\n Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
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Young people, particularly children, have often been marginalized in geopolitical research, perceived as too young to comprehend or engage with the adult-dominated world of international relations. This book aims to bridge the gap by integrating current debates in critical geopolitics and political geography with research in children's geographies, childhood studies, and youth research. By examining diverse practices such as play, activism, media consumption, and diplomacy, it seeks to understand how the lives of children and young people are interconnected with broader regional and global geopolitical processes.

The authors engage with contemporary concepts in human geography, including ludic geopolitics, affect, emotional geographies, intergenerationality, creative diplomacy, popular geopolitics, and citizenship. They draw on geopolitical research with children and young people from Europe, Asia, Australasia, Africa, and the Americas, highlighting the ways in which young people can be enrolled, ignored, dismissed, empowered, and represented by the state for geopolitical ends.

However, the research also demonstrates that young people possess agency and make decisions about their lives that are influenced by wider geopolitical processes. The focus on the lives of children and young people challenges and extends our understanding of the geopolitical, enriching critical geopolitical enquiry and deserving of greater attention within political geographies.

\n Weight: 155g\n
Dimension: 292 x 216 x 5 (mm)\n
ISBN-13: 9781138308480\n \n