ABSTRACT
Latin American Transnational Children and Youth focuses on understanding young people’s connection to nature and place within a transnational and Latin American context.
It serves to diversify, elaborate, and sometimes challenge the assumptions made in researching people and place, and unearths the complexities of a world in which the identity of many is not shaped by a single place or culture, but instead by complex interactions among these. Spanning across ages and geographies, the book explores the central themes of sense of place, identity, and environmental action, with an emphasis on Latinx and Indigenous communities. This book balances theoretical questions with geographically contextual empirical research. Each section is situated in current interdisciplinary research and provides geographically specific examples of children and youth’s perspectives on place relations, migration, transnationalism, and an emerging demographic of environmentalists.
Contributors from Latin America and the United States advance the fields of childhood and youth studies, environmental psychology, geography, sociology, planning, and education. This book looks across the Americas, to see how young people experience their worlds and constructively contribute to their places and environments.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part 1|66 pages
Perspectives on place
chapter Chapter 2|13 pages
Love and care of the land among children of a traditional Indigenous community
chapter Chapter 3|16 pages
The notion of neighborhood
chapter Chapter 4|12 pages
The relationship between outdoor nature and Latinx children's sense of place
chapter Chapter 5|12 pages
Cultural hybridities in the multiethnic enclave
part II|56 pages
Homeland, belonging, and transnational identity
chapter Chapter 7|13 pages
From the Cuchumatanes to the Plain of Flowers
chapter Chapter 9|11 pages
Across transited landscapes
chapter Chapter 10|11 pages
Ways of being and belonging
part III|88 pages
Learning and expressing care