Publications

This list contains publications by ISYS Center researchers as well as scholars that participated in workshops sponsored by ISYS Center and its precedent efforts.

Please email isys@geography.sdsu.edu to request copies of publications marked with an asterisk (*).

Children

Aitken, Stuart C., Anne Trine Kjorholt and Ragnhild Lund (2008). Global Childhoods. Routledge. *

Aitken, Stuart, Silvia Lopez Estrada, Joel Jennings and Lina Aguirre (2006). Reproducing life and labor: Global processes and working children in Tijuana. Childhood, Vol. 13, No. 3, 365-387.

Aitken, S.C. (2004). From dismissals and disciplinary inclusions; From block politics to panic rooms. Children’s Geographies 2(2), 171-175.

Aitken, Stuart C. (2004). Placing children at the heart of globalization. In Barney Warf, Kathy Hansen and Don Janelle (Editors), World Minds: Geographical Perspectives on 100 Problems, pp. 579-584. Kluwer Academic Publishers: Norwell, MA.

Aitken, Stuart C. (2004). Stuart C. Aitken on Donald Winnicott. In John H. McKendrick (editor) First Steps: A Primer on the Geographies of Children and Youth, pp. 3. Limited Life Working Party on Children, Youth and Families. The Royal Geographical Society with the Institution of British Geographers. Glenrothes: Barr Printers Ltd.

Aitken, Stuart C. and Joel Jennings (2004). Clarity, rights and children’s spaces of discipline. In Roxanna Transit (editor) Disciplining the Child Via the Discourse of the Professions, pp130-155. Charles C. Thomas Publisher – LTD.

Aitken, Stuart C. and Randi Marchant (2003). Memories and miscreants: Tales of teenage terror in America. Children’s Geographies 1(2), 151-164.

Aitken, Stuart C. (2001). Playing with children: Immediacy was their cry. Geographic Review 91, Nos. 1-2, 496-508. [2]

Aitken, Stuart C. (2001). Schoolyard shootings: Racism, sexism and moral panics over teen violence. Antipode. 33(4), 594-600.

Aitken, Stuart C. (2001). Global crises of childhood: Rights, justice and the unchildlike child. Area 33 (2), 119-127. [2]

Aitken, Stuart C. (2001). Geographies of Young People: The Morally Contested Spaces of Identity. London and New York: Routledge. [2]

Aitken, Stuart C. and Joel Jennings (2004). Clarity, rights and children’s spaces of discipline. In Roxanna Transit (editor), Disciplining the Child Via the Discourse of the Professions, pp130-155. Charles C. Thomas Publisher – LTD.

Aitken, Stuart C. (2000). A quality life for children. In Foo Tuan Seik, Lim Lan Yuan and Grace Wong Khei Mie (editors) Planning for a Better Quality of Life in Cities. School of Building and Real Estate, NUS, Singapore, pp. 129-144. Singapore: Specialist Press Pte. Ltd.

Aitken, Stuart C. (2000). Play, rights and borders: Gender bound parents and the social construction of children. In Sarah Holloway and Gill Valentine (editors) Children’s Geographies: Living, Playing, Learning and Transforming Everyday Worlds, pp. 119-138 London: Routledge.

Aitken, Stuart C. (1999). Putting parents in their place: Child rearing rites and gender politics. In Elizabeth K. Teather (editor) Geographies of Personal Discovery: Places, Bodies and Rites of Passage, pp. 104-125 London: Routledge.

Bosco, F. (2007). Global aid networks and hungry children in Argentina: Thinking about geographies of responsibility and care. Children’s Geographies, 5, 1-2: 55-76 *

Gagen, Elizabeth (2000). An example to us all: Children's bodies and identity construction in early twentieth century playgrounds. Environment and Planning A, 32, 4, 599-616. [1]

Holloway, Sarah L. and Valentine, Gill 2000. Spatiality and the new social studies of childhood Sociology, 34, 763-783. [2]

Hyams, Melissa, Cambridge University, "Pay attention in class ... [and] don't get pregnant": A discourse of academic success among adolescent Latinas. Environment and Planning A, 32, 4, 635-654. [1]

Jennings, Joel, Stuart Aitken, Silvia Lopez Estrada and Adriana Fernandez (2006). Learning and earning: Relational scales of children’s work. Area. *

Ruddick, Susan (2001). Globalism’s Trojan horse: The restructuring of youth and childhood. Antipode. 35:2, 334–362. [2]

Valentine, Gill (2000). Exploring children and young people's narratives of identity, Geoforum 331, 257—267. [2]

Valentine, Gill (1999). Being seen and heard? The ethical complexities of working with children and young people at home and at school, Ethics, Place and Environment 2, 2: 141-55. [2]

Families

Aitken, Stuart C (2006). Families. In Michael Flood, Bob Pease, Judith Gardiner and Keith Pringle (editors) Encyclopedia of Men and Masculinities. Routledge.

Aitken, Stuart C. (2005). The awkward spaces of fathering. In Bettina van Hoven and Kathrin Hoerschelmann (editors) Spaces of Masculinity, pp. 222-237. New York and London: Routledge

Aitken, Stuart C. (2003). Composing identities: Films, families and racism. Journal of Geography , 102, 1-11.

Aitken, Stuart C. (2001). Shared lives. In Melanie Limb and Claire Dwyer (editors), Qualitative Methods for Geographers, pp. 73-86. New York and London: Arnold Publishers.

Aitken, Stuart C. (2000). Play, rights and borders: Gender bound parents and the social construction of children. In Sarah Holloway and Gill Valentine (editors) Children’s Geographies: Living, Playing, Learning and Transforming Everyday Worlds, pp. 119-138 London: Routledge.

Aitken, Stuart C. (2000) Fathering and faltering: “Sorry, but you don’t have the necessary accoutrements”. Environment and Planning A, 32, 4, 581-598. [1]

Aitken, Stuart C. (1999). Putting parents in their place: Child rearing rites and gender politics. In Elizabeth K. Teather (editor) Geographies of Personal Discovery: Places, Bodies and Rites of Passage, pp. 104-125 London: Routledge.

Aitken, Stuart C. (1998). Family Fantasies and Community Space. New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press. (E-Book: Digitally reproduced at Netlibrary.com’s online library of scholarly electronic books, June 2000.)

Mattingly, Doreen J., Susan Hanson, and Geraldine Pratt. (1998). At home with the kids: Women’s lives, local geographies, and the effects of maternal breaks on women’s employment. Michigan Feminist Studies, 12: 1-25.

Communities

Aitken, Stuart C. (2000). Fear, loathing and space for children. In John R. Gold and George Revill (editors). Landscapes of Defense. Harlow, England: Prentice Hall, pp. 48-67.

Aitken, Stuart C. (1998). Family Fantasies and Community Space. New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press. (E-Book: Digitally reproduced at Netlibrary.com’s online library of scholarly electronic books, June 2000.)

Bosco, F. (2006). “The Madres de Plaza de Mayo and three decades of human rights activism: Embeddedness, emotions and social movements. Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 96, 2: 342-365

Bosco, F. (2004). Human rights politics and scaled performances of memory: Conflicts among the Madres de Plaza de Mayo in Argentina. Social and Cultural Geography 5, 3, 381-402.

Holloway, Sarah, Gill Valentine, and Nick Bingham. (2000). Institutionalising technologies: masculinities, femininities and the heterosexual economy of the IT classroom, Environment and Planning A, 32, 4, 617-634. [1]

Mattingly, Doreen J. (2001). The place of teenagers in neighborhood development: Lessons from a community theater project. International Journal of Social and Cultural Geography 2(4): 445-459. [2]

Mattingly, D. J., Prislin, R., McKenzie, T. L., Rodriguez, J. L., & Kayzar, B. (2002). Evaluating evaluations: The case of parent involvement programs. Review of Educational Research, 72(4), 549-576.

Perez, Ramona L. (2006). The misunderstanding of Mexican community life in urban apartment space: A case study in applied anthropology and community policing. City & Society, Vol. 18, No. 2, pp. 232-259. (Available at http://www.anthrosource.net/doi/abs/10.1525/city.2006.18.2.232)

Thomas, Mary, (2000). From crib to campus: Institutional space and sexual/gender identities, Environment and Planning A, 32, 4, 577-580. [1]

[1] Article part of theme issue of Environment and Planning A (2000, 32, 4) entitled ”From Crib to Campus,” which included five papers from the NSF supported “Young People’s Geographies/The Geographies of Young People” workshop held in San Diego in 1998. Guest Editor: Stuart C. Aitken.

[2] Publication related to work presented at the NSF supported “Young People’s Geographies/The Geographies of Young People” workshop held in San Diego in 1998.