Sunday, May 29, 2011

Pre-workshop entertainment

We have received a few emails from participants regarding preparation for the workshop. To clarify, you do not have to come with a formal paper or chapter from your thesis, as the small group sessions will be based on the discussion points from your abstract. Traditional (lecture style) conferences are fine, but the aim of this workshop is to cultivate a space for the discussion of ideas, not a presentation of them. We hope that our alternative approach will provide a more interactive experience and environment for participants.

For those of you looking for some pre-workshop ‘entertainment’, below are some suggested readings to keep you occupied. All of the articles listed can be found quite easily using Google Scholar. Please feel free to recommend articles, books, websites etc that you feel will be of interest to other participants.

Enjoy!

Ansell N, van Blerk L, Hajdu F and Robson E (2010) ‘Spaces, times and critical moments: A relational time-space analysis of the impacts of AIDS on rural youth in Malawi and Lesotho’ Environment and Planning A. 43 (3), pp. 525-544

Evans, B. (2008) 'Geographies of youth/young people.' Geography compass. 2 (5), pp. 1659-1680.
Hopkins P, Alexander C (2010) ‘Politics, mobility and nationhood: upscaling young people's geographies’. Area. 42 (2), pp. 142-144

Jeffrey, C. (2011) ‘Geographies of Children and Youth II: Global youth agency’. Progress in Human Geography. Published online before print.

Jeffrey, C. (2010) ‘Geographies of children and youth I: eroding maps of life’. Progress in Human Geography. 34 (4), pp. 496-505

Vanderbeck, Robert M. (2008) ‘Reaching critical mass? Theory, politics, and the culture of debate in children’s geographies’. Area. 40 (3), pp. 393-400

Thursday, May 26, 2011

Youth in Motion - preview!

We've had some great submissions for the Youth in Motion workshop at UCL on 16th June. We thought we'd share some of the emerging ideas via the blog to whet your appetites in advance of the day itself. Below are just a few of the themes and questions that participants are hoping to explore.

If you'd like to join the discussion in person on the 16th, we have a couple of places still available. (Although please note that we are no longer able to accept any further position papers.) Please email Caitlin at c.o'neill@ucl.ac.uk or James at james.esson.09@ucl.ac.uk if you'd like to register. If you're unable to attend in person but you're keen to connect with the event, please get in touch and share some of your questions or ideas via this blog.

Preview questions

How might disciplinary paradigms of education have overlooked the practical articulation students have within educations institutions? How should we think of the school through the ambiguous engagement/movement of the students? What other socialities and subjectivities may be encouraged by the school that nonetheless feature peripherally in theorizations of education? (Charis Boutieri, King's College London, UK)

How do young people's bodies and corporeality relate to and/or become incorporated by the internet/mobile technologies? How do these technologies facilitate movement and mobility in material spaces? Do these technologies provide spaces of belonging, or do they create a further layer of exclusion for young people to negotiate and resist? (Gary Downing, University of Reading, UK)

What sort of research methods might permit more effective analyses of young people’s movement through urban places, and the kinds of affective atmospheres generated in these movements? (Cameron Duff, Monash University, Australia)

In what ways do public youth organisations serve both youth and the state? How can public youth organisations contribute to our understanding of young people's self-definition and broader definitions of "youth", as well as their participation, exclusion, inequalities and resistance? (Falma Fshazi, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, France)

What should be the transformative role of the university establishment in supporting efforts for access to higher education to immigrant youth who are in precarious immigration situations (asylum seeking or undocumented)? What does silence on this point signify within the larger discourse of inequalities? What ethical issues does political-scholarly activism for youth in precarious immigration situations raise for researchers and scholars? (Felipe Mendez, McGill University, Canada)

Tuesday, May 3, 2011

Youth mobility in Africa

Dr Gina Porter (Durham University) has shared the following link with workshop participants and blog followers:

http://www.dur.ac.uk/child.mobility/

The booklet on young people's mobility was produced by the 70 young researchers (aged 11-19) involved in the project. Further information is also available via the website.

REMINDER: 9th May submission deadline for Position Paper Abstracts

The deadline for submitting your Position Paper Abstract is fast-approaching. We would love to have as many confirmed submissions as possible by the 9th of May 2011.

Places to attend the workshop are free but limited - they're filling up so don't delay!

See the Call for Participation post below for more information on what to include in your brief abstract - if you're unsure of what to write or how to present your work, then shoot us an email expressing your interest and we'd be happy to help or answer your questions.

Caitlin - c.o'neill@ucl.ac.uk
James - james.esson.09@ucl.ac.uk

We look forward to seeing you in June! :-)