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. (2011). The edge of the world: Embattled leagues of children and seals teeter on the rim, Presidential Address. Yearbook of the Association of Pacific Coast Geographers. Forthcoming.

Aitken, Stuart C. (2010). 'Not bad for a little migrant working kid'. Children's Geographies. 8, 4: 363-372. [3]

Aitken, Stuart C. and Vicky Plows (2010). Overturning assumptions about young people, border spaces and revolutions. Children's Geographies. 8, 4: 327-334. [3]

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

Aitken, Stuart C. (2007). Poetic child realism: Scottish film and the construction of childhood. Scottish Geographical Journal, Vol. 123 (1), 68-86.

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.

Baylina, Mireia and Maria Prats Ferret (2010). The Second International Conference on Geographies of Children, Youth and Families, Barcelona 2009: a report. Children's Geographies, 8, 4: 437-440 [3]

Bejarano, Cynthia (2010). Border rootedness as tranformative resistance: youth overcoming violence and inspection in US-Mexico border region. Children's Geographies, 8, 4: 391-400. [3]

Bosco, Fernando J. (2010). Play, work, or activism? Broadening the connections between political and children's geographies. Children’s Geographies, 8, 4: 381-390. [3]

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

Burridge, Andrew (2010). Youth on the line and the No Borders movement. Children's Geographies, 8, 4: 401-412. [3]

Crotty, Sean, Christopher Moreno and Stuart C. Aitken (2008). "Each and every single story about me … There’s like a huge twist to it”: Growing up at risk in the United States. In Craig Jeffreys and Jane Dyson (editors) Telling Young Lives, pp. 97-112. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.

Curti, Giorgio H. and Christopher M. Moreno (2010). Institutional borders, revolutionary imaginings and the becoming-adult of the child. Children's Geographies, 8, 4: 413-428. [3]

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]

Inzunza, Dina J. and Christian Fernandez Huerta (2010). The importance of looking at the border from a young person's perspective. Children's Geographies, 8, 4: 335-342. [3]

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

Ongay, Luis (2010). Glocalists in Tijuana: youth, cultural citizenship and cosmopolitan identity. Children's Geographies. 8, 4: 373-380. [3]

Perez, Ramona L. (2010). Narratives to the other side: the revelations and dynamics of a bi-national penpal program in border spaces. Children's Geographies. 8, 4: 353-362. [3]

Pratt, Geraldine (2010). Listening for spaces of ordinariness: Filipino-Canadian youths' transnational lives. Children's Geographies. 8, 4: 343-352. [3]

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

Swanson, Kate. 2010. Begging as a Path to Progress: Indigenous Women and Children and the Struggle for Ecuador's Urban Spaces. Geographies of Justice and Social Transformation book series edited by Nik Heynen, Andrew Herod and Melissa W. Wright. Athens: University of Georgia Press.

Swanson, Kate (2010). 'For every border, there is also a bridge': overturning borders in young Aboriginal peoples' lives. Children's Geographies. 8, 4: 429-436. [3]

Swanson, Kate. 2008. Witches, children and Kiva-the-research dog: striking problems encountered in the field. Area, 40: 55-64 (1).

Swanson, Kate (2007). Swanson, Kate. 2007. "Bad mothers" and "delinquent children": unravelling anti-begging rhetoric in the Ecuadorian Andes. Gender, Place and Culture: A Journal of Feminist Geography, 14: 703-720.

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. (2009). The Awkward Spaces of Fathering. Aldershot: Ashgate Press.

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.)

Bosco, Fernando J. (2007). Mother activism and the geographic conundrum of social movements. Urban Geography, 28, 5: 426-431.

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.

Bosco, Fernando J., Stuart C. Aitken and Thomas Herman. (2011). Women and children in a neighborhood advocacy group: Engaging community and refashioning citizenship. Gender, Place and Culture. In Press.

Dahman, Nicholas, Jennifer Wolch, Pascale Joassart-Marcelli, Kim Reynolds, and Michael Jerrett. (2010). The active city: Recreation programs, public health and environmental justice. Health and Place 16: 431–445.

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]

Joassart-Marcelli, Pascale. (2010). Leveling the playing field? Urban disparities in funding for local parks and recreation. Environment and Planning A 42(5): 1174-1192.

Joassart-Marcelli, Pascale. (2010). For whom and for what? An investigation of the roles of nonprofits as providers to the neediest. Chapter 7 in L. Salamon (Ed.), The State of Nonprofit America. Washington, DC: The Brookings Institution Press.

Joassart-Marcelli, Pascale and Philip Stephens. (2009). Immigrant banking and financial exclusion in Greater Boston. Journal of Economic Geography. Advance online access. 1-30.

Joassart-Marcelli, Pascale and Alberto Giordano. (2006). Does local access to employment services reduce unemployment? A GIS analysis of one-stop career centers. Policy Sciences 39: 335-359.

Joassart-Marcelli, Pascale, Juliet Musso, and Jennifer Wolch. (2004). Federal expenditures, intrametropolitan poverty, and fiscal disparities between cities. Chapter 7, pp.195-224, in Up Against the Sprawl: Public Policy and the Making of Southern California, edited by Jennifer Wolch, Manuel Pastor, and Peter Dreier. University of Minnesota Press.

Marcelli, Enrico, Colin Williams, and Pascale Joassart (Editors). Informal Work in Developed Nations, London: Routledge.

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.

[3] These papers were part of a workshop at San Diego State University that brought together researchers interested in borders and young people. The workshop, entitled 'Mapping North American Youth Cultures', was convened in August 2008 and funded by the Canadian Government and San Diego State University's Centre for Interdisciplinary Research on Youth and Space (ISYS). The discussions were wide-ranging and not necessarily focused on the political borders that encompass North America.