Childrens Geographies

Papers
(The median citation count of Childrens Geographies is 1. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)
ArticleCitations
Chasing the unreachable ‘university dream’: an active life course approach integrating chronopolitics54
The role teachers and family members play in secondary-level school learners’ geographical lived experiences in Namibia, Africa30
Clientelism in Cambodian residential care institutions28
PARqueologia Migrante: Latinas engaging in Virtual Youth Participatory Action Research21
Moving towards inclusion and connection: practitioners’ conceptualisations of walking pedagogy20
Adolescents in Humanitarian Crisis. Displacement, Gender and Social Inequalities17
Belittled Citizens: The cultural politics of childhood on Bangkok's margins17
The social significance of children’s work in cashew supply chain activities in Ghana14
The war within: emotional experiences of children in Norwegian child protection services14
Children's playgrounds: ‘inadequacies and mediocrities inherited from the past’?14
Picturing broader socioeconomic conditions: introducing demographic data to participatory photo mapping in order to help youth understand community stratification13
Watching change: attuning to the tempo of decay with pumpkin, weather and young children11
In and out of focus: a reflective Peter Kraftl's After Childhood11
Responsibility at a distance: parents’ accounts of their children’s unaccompanied travelling11
Weaving the pluriverse: childhood encounters with the underground worlds of Birrarung Marr11
Hegemony and the neoconservative politics of early education policymaking11
Being a child in Morelia: child spatial mobility over the years11
Country conscious: everyday attention to the changing climate of childhood with children and country10
Education in a changing climate: reconceptualising school and classroom climate through the fiery atmos-fears of Australia’s Black summer10
Work socialisation gone wrong? Exploring the antecedent of child trafficking in two Ghanaian fishing communities10
Living in a crowd: young people’s counter-narratives of care in a Thai orphanage10
Pedagogy, place, and food education in Australian schools: lessons from Tropical North Queensland9
Constructing and governing freedom – physical environments as a discursive practice in Swedish early childhood education9
Children, education and geography rethinking intersections9
How children negotiate and make sense of social class boundaries8
The street, children and parents: the views of children from Santiago de Chile8
Zones of comfort and imaginability: using Participatory Video Interviewing to explore ecologies of resilience in Guatemala City8
Reconceptualizing family reunification from a youth mobilities perspective: transnational youth between Ghana and Belgium8
‘It’s a great place to find where you belong’: creating, curating and valuing place and space in open youth work8
Childhood(s) through time: an intergenerational lens on flexible narratives of childhood in Irish coastal communities8
Children’s lives in times of pandemic: experiences from Colombia8
Research with children from a transdisciplinary perspective: coproduction of knowledge by walking8
Everyday nationalism in Swedish preschools: something old, something new and something borrowed7
Introduction: Modernity, Schooling and Childhood in India: Trajectories of Exclusion7
Diagnosing communities’ childcare friendliness: case studies of two South Korean cities7
Children’s technologies of the self within neoliberal governmentality at the educational transition to Gymnasium in Zurich7
Latina students’ experiences in public schools7
More-than-human and more-than-digital collecting among young children in Norway6
Play diversity and student agency in the redevelopment of a school playspace6
‘The world is your oyster’: mothers’ perspectives on the value and purpose of an independent Forest School provision6
Attuning to processes of affective sociomaterialisation: exploring subjectivity and identity in outdoor early childhood provision in Scotland, UK6
Displaced children’s experience of places and play: a scoping review6
Speculative caring collaboratories: mattering research alternatives6
Correction6
Preschool aged children’s experiences of integrated early years services in Australia: including missing perspectives6
Children as worlding but not only: holding space for unknowing and undoing, unfolding and ongoing6
Children and young people’s unaccompanied mobility: the role of the built and social environments in an unequal Latin American Metropolis5
Placemaking with children and youth: participatory practices for planning sustainable communities5
(In)visible encounters with indigeneity: a way towards decolonizing pedagogies in early childhood education5
Sweets are ‘my best friend’: belonging, bargains and body-shaming in working class girls’ food and health relationships5
Creativity in childhood: exploring how children’s experiences of creativity can be understood intersectionally and spatially5
Malnutrition as more-than-food: understanding failings in the broader infrastructures of nurture5
Geographies of school-related gender-based violence: children's visual accounts of school toilets5
Perception, concern, competency: children's understanding of physical and non-physical aspects of urban environment in Iran5
On exploitation, agency and child domestic work: evidence from South-West Nigeria5
Analysis of accessibility to public schools with GIS: a case study of Salihli city (Turkey)5
Responding to COVID-19 in South Africa – social solidarity and social assistance5
Unearned advantages? Redefining privilege in light of childhood5
Power, agency and children’s time use in rural Sierra Leone5
To do or not to do: practical and ethical concerns in online research with children and young people during crises5
Anchors and thresholds in the formation of a transnational sense of belonging of migrant children in Poland5
‘I’m going to call my friend to join us': connections and challenges in online video interviews with children during COVID-194
Decontextualized schooling and (child) development: Adivasi communities’ negotiations of early childhood care and education and schooling provisions in India4
Caste, space, and schooling in nineteenth century South India4
Crossed by the border: children’s lived experiences with flooding in an urbanized transborder watershed4
Imagining an ecological right to the city in Toronto through drama-based research4
Multi-layered mobilities: unaccompanied minors’ trajectories, decision-making and mobility after arrival in Italy4
Child-Friendly Cities and Communities: opportunities and challenges4
Changing childhoods in coastal communities4
From contested spaces to choice-centered places : using geographic interviews to understand young adults’ experiences in permanent support4
Childhood and belonging over time: narratives of identity across generations on Tasmania’s east coast4
Does children’s independent mobility matter? Insights into escorting practices in a developing country4
Designing and making a separate leisure space: exploring the geographies of children with disabilities4
Navigating dis/ableist school playgrounds and toilets with geographic maturity: stories of young people with dwarfism from their secondary education4
The role of positionality in research ‘gone wrong’: critical reflections on research involving young people4
Fishy childhoods in space and time: intergenerational continuities and changes4
Toddlers’ engagements with preschool playgrounds: ethnographic insights from Sweden4
Geography of children’s worry during the COVID-19 pandemic: insights into variations, influences, and implications4
Embodied spatial learning in the mobile preschool: the socio-spatial organization of meals as interactional achievement4
Higher education students’ aspirations for their post-university lives: evidence from six European nations3
Children's physical activity and active travel: a cross-sectional study of activity spaces, sociodemographic and neighborhood associations3
Kid power, inequalities and intergenerational relations Kid power, inequalities and intergenerational relations , by Clara Rübner Jørgensen and Michael Wyness, UK, Londo3
Changes in children’s rhythms of everyday life during the COVID-19 pandemic in a small town in the Prague metropolitan area3
Lived Democracy in Education: Young Citizens’ Democratic Lives in Kindergarten, School and Higher Education Lived Democracy in Education: Young Citizens’ Democratic Lives in Kindergarte3
Stories of shimmer and pollution: understanding child-environment aesthetic encounters in urban wilds3
Growing up in the ‘Ghetto’: children's ambiguous attachment in racialised communities in Denmark3
Not being able to fool around with my friends at break – children’s home-based education in space and time3
The influence of the physical environment on social behavior, school climate, and bullying in schools3
Israel’s war on Gaza and the violation of children’s rights3
Effects of the Hukou system on the geographies of young people in contemporary urban China3
Society and social changes through the prism of childhood: Editorial3
Children’s cartographies of the world: mapping Brazilian modes, methods and moments3
Everyday reality of children in rural Catalonia (Spain): experiences and emotions3
From ‘No’ to ‘Know’: a heuristic for decolonizing research with youth3
Children and Covid 19 in the UK3
‘But, what is a researcher?’ Developing a novel ethics resource to support informed consent with young children3
‘There are many ways to make it’: young minority men’s aspirations and navigation of their low-income neighbourhood: a case study in Utrecht, The Netherlands3
Inclusive education in practice: disability, ‘special needs’ and the (Re)production of normativity in Indian childhoods3
Using methods across generations: researcher reflections from a research project involving young people and their parents3
Children’s world-making practices as peacebuilders in the community3
Correction2
‘The slow pandemic’: youth’s climate activism and the stakes for youth movements under Covid-192
Constructions and contestations of Indigenous girlhoods in residential schools in Central India2
On foot or by car: what determines children’s active school travel?2
Exploring children’s participation in the framework of early childhood environmental education2
Choreographing collaboratories: studios of situated improvisations2
Moral childhoods: the role of morality in friendship-making among children from refugee backgrounds in rural, multicultural settler Australia2
Public space and urban resilience: children’s perspectives. The case of the hills of Valparaíso, Chile2
Refugee and asylum-seeker children’s experiences: results of a meta ethnography2
Reflections on enabling intergenerational dialogue about climate interventions through deliberative methods2
‘There is a lot of traffic at the school gate in the morning which makes me nervous’: exploring children’s current and desired school commutes2
‘It’s a good start to the day’: Urban Australian children’s understandings of active mobility and place2
Children's access to play during the COVID-19 pandemic in the urban context in Turkey2
Outdoor activities and contact with nature in the Portuguese context: a comparative study between children’s and their parents’ experiences2
Breaking the barriers: the capacity to aspire for higher education of Bangladesh tea workers’ children2
In it together! Cultivating space for intergenerational dialogue, empathy and hope in a climate of uncertainty2
Exploring recent immigrant children’s perceptions of interactions with parents before and after immigration to Canada2
‘We have to make the tourists happy’; orphanage tourism in Siem Reap, Cambodia through the children’s own voices2
School data walls: sociomaterial assemblages to aid children’s literacy outcomes2
‘Why are they making us rush?’ The school dining hall as surveillance mechanism, social learning, or child’s space?2
From maps to spatial stories: a case study to understand children’s (re-)productions of art museum space2
Participatory children curation: an innovative example2
‘We discovered places we never used before’. Home and parenting geographies during the 2020 lockdowns in Italy and Greece2
‘The school of our dreams’: engaging with children’s experiences and hopes at a remote school in India2
Atmospheres of the Anthropocene. Sensing and rerouting dis/inheritances in a university museum with young people2
Creating an ethos for learning: classroom seating and pedagogical use of space at a Chinese suburban middle school2
Investigating children’s affective geographies of Chinese language and culture education2
Temporary youth mobility: motivations and benefits from a life-course perspective2
‘You don’t realise they’re helping you until you realise they’re helping you’: reconceptualising adultism through community music2
Editorial statement on violence against children and a call for a ceasefire in Gaza2
Identifying clientelism in orphanages: a conceptual model2
Young people’s everyday climate crisis activism: new terrains for research, analysis and action2
Designing public playgrounds for inclusion: a scoping review of grey literature guidelines for Universal Design1
Identity, belonging and place attachment amongst Pacific Island children: a photographic analysis1
Reimagining institutional ethics procedures in research partnerships with young people across Majority/Minority World contexts1
Exploring the opportunities and constraints of urban small green spaces: an investigation of affordances1
Growing up in place: two middle-class London girlhoods in the 1920s and late 1940s/1950s1
Category construction and knowledge production in childhood studies: rethinking ‘left-behind children’ through the case of ‘liushou children’ in China1
Children’s opportunities for play in the built environment: a scoping review1
Not-Quite-Friendship: exploring social relations between child domestic workers and the children of employing families1
Environmental education in Aotearoa New Zealand: reconfiguring possum–child mortal relations1
Places to belong? Narrating childhood(s) and the coast as a home across three generations in a community of islands1
Children’s tourism memory: an iconological analysis of drawings1
Between the state, capital, and families: the production of children’s space in urban China1
Voices in a pandemic: using deep mapping to explore children’s sense of place during the COVID-19 pandemic in UK1
Being a migrant learner in a South African primary school: recognition and racialisation1
Children living in pandemic times: a geographical, transnational and situated view1
Application of the COM-B model to the correlates of children’s outdoor playing and the potential role of digital interventions: a systematic literature review1
Learning to be (multi)national: Greek diasporic childhood re-memories of nationalism and nation-building in Australia1
Special issue: modernity, schooling, and childhood in India: trajectories of exclusion1
The well-being of children in a full lockdown and partial lockdown situation: a comparative perspective1
Patterns, evolution and determinants of child trafficking in Henan Province, China1
‘We are ignored rather than attacked politically’. Youth participation in regional sustainability transformation in eastern Germany1
The influence of gender on young women’s everyday (im)mobilities in Inverness, Scotland1
The space and power of young people's social relationships: immersive geographies1
Where are preschoolers active in childcare centers? A hot-spot analysis using GIS, GPS and accelerometry data1
Climate policy, youth voice and intergenerational justice: learning from Nottingham Youth Climate Assembly1
‘No one listens to us … ’ COVID-19 and its socio-spatial impact on children and young people in Germany1
Feminist ethicality in child-animal research: worlding through complex stories1
Green versus grey break: children’s place experience of recess-time in primary schools’ natural and built area1
The role of family dialogue in becoming response-able: a common worlds approach1
Children’s perceptions of safety in their school path: the case of the Basque Country1
Intergenerational solidarities for climate healing: the case for critical methodologies and decolonial research practices1
Using Persona Dolls in research with children to combat the insider/outsider researcher status dilemma1
Tiny human geographies: babies and toddlers as non-representational and barely human life?1
Noticing nature on the waterways1
The (unaccompanied) minor as mobility: the tactics of young African migrants in Italy to contest spatio-temporal control1
Identity and life quality: shaping one’s place on a small island in a fishing community1
‘This place does not feel safe’: safe and unsafe spaces in Swedish school-age educare1
Clean bodies in school: spatial-material discourses of children’s school uniforms and hygiene in Tamil Nadu, India1
Hong Kong kindergartens in urban space: policy aspirations, historical trajectories, and contemporary disparities1
(Un-)Protocoling post-qualitative childhood research: a novice researcher1
Our culturally maladaptive transport discourses are continuing to fail our children1
Cracks in the well-plastered façade of the Nordic model: reflections on inequalities in housing and mobility in (post-)coronavirus pandemic Sweden1
‘The boys from the land don’t get anything’: unaccompanied minors’ experience of child protection environments and the humanitarian border in Greece1
Children’s perceptions of their neighbourhoods during COVID-19 lockdown in Aotearoa New Zealand1
Migrant childhoods and schooling in India: contesting the inclusion-exclusion binary1
Contesting the secular school: everyday nationalism and negotiations of Muslim childhoods1
The relationship between young children’s transitions and power: ‘Why are all the doors locked? I don’t feel free … I am not in charge of me anymore'1
‘If I tell them that I live near the neighborhood, they’re like, oh are you poor?’ Differences in young people’s reactions to territorial stigma in the Helsinki metropolitan area, Finland1
Children, common bracken and cows at work: re-considering work in multispecies relations through childhood memories1
Policy development for children in Ethiopia: progress and next steps1
Whose voices? Whose knowledge? Children and young people’s learning about climate change through local spaces and indigenous knowledge systems1
Everyday childhood nature experiences in an era of urbanisation: an analysis of Dutch children’s drawings of their favourite place to play outdoors1
Children as ‘difference makers’: viral discourses of childhood innocence and activism in #Blacklivesmatter1
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