OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Childrens Geographies is 4. 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.)

Article	Citations
Chasing the unreachable ‘university dream’: an active life course approach integrating chronopolitics	54
The role teachers and family members play in secondary-level school learners’ geographical lived experiences in Namibia, Africa	30
Clientelism in Cambodian residential care institutions	28
PARqueologia Migrante: Latinas engaging in Virtual Youth Participatory Action Research	21
Moving towards inclusion and connection: practitioners’ conceptualisations of walking pedagogy	20
Adolescents in Humanitarian Crisis. Displacement, Gender and Social Inequalities	17
Belittled Citizens: The cultural politics of childhood on Bangkok's margins	17
The social significance of children’s work in cashew supply chain activities in Ghana	14
The war within: emotional experiences of children in Norwegian child protection services	14
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 stratification	13
Watching change: attuning to the tempo of decay with pumpkin, weather and young children	11
In and out of focus: a reflective Peter Kraftl's After Childhood	11
Responsibility at a distance: parents’ accounts of their children’s unaccompanied travelling	11
Weaving the pluriverse: childhood encounters with the underground worlds of Birrarung Marr	11
Hegemony and the neoconservative politics of early education policymaking	11
Being a child in Morelia: child spatial mobility over the years	11
Country conscious: everyday attention to the changing climate of childhood with children and country	10
Education in a changing climate: reconceptualising school and classroom climate through the fiery atmos-fears of Australia’s Black summer	10
Work socialisation gone wrong? Exploring the antecedent of child trafficking in two Ghanaian fishing communities	10
Living in a crowd: young people’s counter-narratives of care in a Thai orphanage	10
Pedagogy, place, and food education in Australian schools: lessons from Tropical North Queensland	9
Constructing and governing freedom – physical environments as a discursive practice in Swedish early childhood education	9
Children, education and geography rethinking intersections	9
How children negotiate and make sense of social class boundaries	8

The street, children and parents: the views of children from Santiago de Chile	8
Zones of comfort and imaginability: using Participatory Video Interviewing to explore ecologies of resilience in Guatemala City	8
Reconceptualizing family reunification from a youth mobilities perspective: transnational youth between Ghana and Belgium	8
‘It’s a great place to find where you belong’: creating, curating and valuing place and space in open youth work	8
Childhood(s) through time: an intergenerational lens on flexible narratives of childhood in Irish coastal communities	8
Children’s lives in times of pandemic: experiences from Colombia	8
Research with children from a transdisciplinary perspective: coproduction of knowledge by walking	8
Everyday nationalism in Swedish preschools: something old, something new and something borrowed	7
Introduction: Modernity, Schooling and Childhood in India: Trajectories of Exclusion	7
Diagnosing communities’ childcare friendliness: case studies of two South Korean cities	7
Children’s technologies of the self within neoliberal governmentality at the educational transition to Gymnasium in Zurich	7
Latina students’ experiences in public schools	7
More-than-human and more-than-digital collecting among young children in Norway	6
Play diversity and student agency in the redevelopment of a school playspace	6
‘The world is your oyster’: mothers’ perspectives on the value and purpose of an independent Forest School provision	6
Attuning to processes of affective sociomaterialisation: exploring subjectivity and identity in outdoor early childhood provision in Scotland, UK	6
Displaced children’s experience of places and play: a scoping review	6
Speculative caring collaboratories: mattering research alternatives	6
Correction	6
Preschool aged children’s experiences of integrated early years services in Australia: including missing perspectives	6
Children as worlding but not only: holding space for unknowing and undoing, unfolding and ongoing	6
Children and young people’s unaccompanied mobility: the role of the built and social environments in an unequal Latin American Metropolis	5
Placemaking with children and youth: participatory practices for planning sustainable communities	5
(In)visible encounters with indigeneity: a way towards decolonizing pedagogies in early childhood education	5
Sweets are ‘my best friend’: belonging, bargains and body-shaming in working class girls’ food and health relationships	5
Creativity in childhood: exploring how children’s experiences of creativity can be understood intersectionally and spatially	5
Malnutrition as more-than-food: understanding failings in the broader infrastructures of nurture	5
Geographies of school-related gender-based violence: children's visual accounts of school toilets	5
Perception, concern, competency: children's understanding of physical and non-physical aspects of urban environment in Iran	5
On exploitation, agency and child domestic work: evidence from South-West Nigeria	5
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 assistance	5
Unearned advantages? Redefining privilege in light of childhood	5
Power, agency and children’s time use in rural Sierra Leone	5
To do or not to do: practical and ethical concerns in online research with children and young people during crises	5
Anchors and thresholds in the formation of a transnational sense of belonging of migrant children in Poland	5
‘I’m going to call my friend to join us': connections and challenges in online video interviews with children during COVID-19	4
Decontextualized schooling and (child) development: Adivasi communities’ negotiations of early childhood care and education and schooling provisions in India	4
Caste, space, and schooling in nineteenth century South India	4
Crossed by the border: children’s lived experiences with flooding in an urbanized transborder watershed	4
Imagining an ecological right to the city in Toronto through drama-based research	4
Multi-layered mobilities: unaccompanied minors’ trajectories, decision-making and mobility after arrival in Italy	4
Child-Friendly Cities and Communities: opportunities and challenges	4
Changing childhoods in coastal communities	4
From contested spaces to choice-centered places : using geographic interviews to understand young adults’ experiences in permanent support	4
Childhood and belonging over time: narratives of identity across generations on Tasmania’s east coast	4
Does children’s independent mobility matter? Insights into escorting practices in a developing country	4
Designing and making a separate leisure space: exploring the geographies of children with disabilities	4
Navigating dis/ableist school playgrounds and toilets with geographic maturity: stories of young people with dwarfism from their secondary education	4
The role of positionality in research ‘gone wrong’: critical reflections on research involving young people	4

Fishy childhoods in space and time: intergenerational continuities and changes	4
Toddlers’ engagements with preschool playgrounds: ethnographic insights from Sweden	4
Geography of children’s worry during the COVID-19 pandemic: insights into variations, influences, and implications	4
Embodied spatial learning in the mobile preschool: the socio-spatial organization of meals as interactional achievement	4