Geography 312CG - Seminar: 'Children's Geographies'

What is childhood, and how is it shaped by space and place? What can we learn about broader political and social processes by studying the spaces of children's everyday lives? How do children understand and shape the worlds they inhabit? From the playground to the detention center, from the classroom to the city, this course will explore children's lives in their spatial, social, and political dimensions. We will study childhood as a social category influenced by intersecting identities (e.g. race, class, gender, disability, and citizenship) and spatial processes (e.g. gentrification, capitalism, globalization, and migration). Additionally, we will attend to methodological questions in the study of children's geographies. By the end of the course, students will be equipped to use core geographic concepts to analyze the policies, practices, and discourses of childhood.

This course is open to juniors and seniors