This edited collection brings together international experts of geographies of children, youth and families. The book provides an overview of current conceptual and theoretical debates, drawing upon cutting-edge research from across the globe. The volume is an invaluable course text for undergraduate and postgraduate students of geography, the social sciences and education.

1. Introduction: Geographies of Children, Youth and Families, Disentangling the Socio-Spatial Contexts of Young People Across the Globalising World 2. Geographies of Children, Youth and Families: Defining Achievements, Debating the Agenda Part 1: Bodies and Identities 3. Foucault's Children 4. Building a Sense of Community: Children, Bodies and Social Cohesion 5. Shutting the Bathroom Door: Parents, Young Teenagers and the Negotiation of Bodily Boundaries at Home Part 2: The Home, Family and Intergenerational Relationships 6. The Search for Belonging: Youth Identities and Transitions to Adulthood in an African Refugee Context 7. Travellers, Housing and the (re)Construction of Communities 8. On Not Going Home at the End of the Day: Spatialised Discourses of Family Life in Single Location Home/Workplaces 9. Geographies of 'Family' Life: Interdependent Relationships Across the Life Course in the Context of Problem Internet Gambling 10. Negotiating Children's Outdoor Spatial Freedom: Portraits of Three Parisian Families Part 3: Cities and/or Public Spaces 11. Children Living in the City: Gendered Experiences and Desires in Spain and Mexico 12. Dredging History: the Price of Preservation at La Jolla's Children's Pool 13. Filling the Family's Transport Gap in Sub-Saharan Africa: Young People and Load Carrying in Ghana 14. Adult Anxieties Versus Young People's Resistance: Negotiating Access to Public Space in Singapore 15. Socio-Spatial Experiences of Young People under Anti-social Behaviour Legislation in England and Wales Part 4: Institutional Spaces 16. Tears and Laughter at a Sure Start Centre: Preschool Geographies, Policy Contexts 17. Social and Educational Inequalities in English State Schools: Exploring the Understandings of Urban White Middle Class Children 18. De/re-institutionalising Deafness through the Mainstreaming of Deaf Education in the Republic of Ireland 19. 'The Teachers seemed a bit Obsessive with Health and Safety': Fieldwork Risk and the Social Construction of Childhood