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Listening to children’s voices and respecting their rights
By Rosa Mas Giralt In last Sunday’s Observer, Henry Porter commented on the lack of public attention given to the fact that about 2,000 asylum seeking children a year are locked up with their parents...
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Our fat future?
Model sizes: 'normal' - 'overweight' - 'obese' By William Hasty The world’s heaviest human being lives in the UK – Ipswich to be more specific. He weighs 70 stone and, as of this week, requires highly...
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Fateful fatness
By Rosa Mas Giralt Reports about the pandemic of obesity affecting Western countries are never far from the news agenda. Urgent cries for action aiming at saving us from our expanding waistlines and...
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The Geographies of Childhood Obesity
Sarah Mills The recent criticism Jamie Oliver received for his attempts to combat obesity in the US highlight how emotive the issue of childhood obesity can be. The American backlash to Oliver’s...
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The Social Geography of Youth
City Centre, Belfast, Northern Ireland by Benjamin Sacks Naomi Bushin and Allen White’s excellent article in the June 2010 issue of Area analyses the critical impact of migration in conflicting zones...
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Family Returns: Children Seeking Asylum
Sarah Mills In the recent special section of Area on ‘Upscaling young people’s geographies’, Heaven Crawley examines the role of children in the UK asylum system. She focuses specifically on the...
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In today’s unsustainable consumer culture, are young people part of the...
by Rebecca Collins Shopping Centre. Photo by Gordon Griffiths, via Wikimedia Commons Most young people like to have new things. This much has been true since the birth of the ‘teenager’ in the 1950s...
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Content Alert: New Articles (30th March 2012)
These Early View articles are now available on Wiley Online Library. Adapting water management to climate change: Putting our science into practice Ecological benefits of creating messy rivers Nicholas...
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I Predict a Riot: A Research Agenda One Year On
By Fiona Ferbrache It was a year ago last week that riots broke out in several English cities and our television screens portrayed scenes of violence, looting and arson. Last week, journalists were...
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‘Fun gifts for boys’ and the geographies of ‘aww’, ‘umph’, ‘wow’ and ‘cool’
By Ashley Crowson, King’s College London As manufacturers and retailers prepare to sell huge quantities of toys and gadgets in the run up to Christmas, at least one seven-year-old girl has protested...
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