Children, young people and ‘disability’: challenging children's geographies?

Editorial: Thinking and doing children's emotional geographies

“…However, dialogue between these fields remains limited. Whilst children's emotions certainly have been addressed by geographers (Nayak 2003;Hemming 2007;Horton and Kraftl 2009;den Besten 2010;Pain et al 2010;Pyer et al 2010;Brown 2011), we believe that there needs to be greater and more focused mutual engagement on such questions as how emotions matter in the spatialities of children's lives (Horton and Kraftl 2006;Hadfield-Hill and Horton 2013) and what is at stake in researching them (Valentine 1999;Robson 2001;Barker and Smith 2001;Horton 2001;Gaskell 2008). It is also important to question if and how children's geographies can and should speak towards the broader field of emotional geographies and to debates in cognate disciplines and practice.…”

Disabilities, urban natures and children’s outdoor play

“…Thus, it is argued that disabilities are often rendered invisible in many contemporary popular and academic discourses, norms and ideals relating to leisure and play (particularly, I argue, outdoor, natural, active play). Therefore, like Pyer et al (2010), MacPherson (2008) and Skelton & Valentine (2007), I will argue that the presences and perspectives of disabled people in spaces of play, leisure and nature have the capacity to significantly unsettle some key, normative assumptions about such spaces and practices which circulate widely in extant literature.…”

Critical psychologies of disability: boundaries, borders and bodies in the lives of disabled children

“…Notions which can feel stable and ubiquitous (ÔchildhoodÕ, ÔdisabilityÕ) are actually diversely patterned, complexly interconnected, processually constituted and extended at multiple scales, and experienced differently in different time/space contexts (Pyer at al, 2010: 3).…”

“…Attending to the ways in which bodies and subjectivities are constituted in social environments is a growing consideration of critical psychology (Blackman et al, 2008;Bridger, 2010), childhood and disability studies (Parr and Butler, 1999;Gleeson, 1999aGleeson, , 1999bImrie, 1998Imrie, , 2000Power, 2009;Hansen, 2002;Holt, 2010, Pyer et al, 2010 and a line of analysis we take forward in this paper.…”