ABSTRACT

This chapter discusses the role and development of children's geographies in four European countries that seem to us representative of what occurs in some countries of Southern Europe: Greece, Italy, Portugal, and Spain. In Italy, cultural geography is not very developed, and therefore within Italian academic geography there is no sub discipline that could be called cultural geography. Italian geography is absent from the international scene and there is also no real national dialogue in the field. In Spain, social and cultural geography has developed in recent years, in a somewhat timid but constant manner, in the areas of geographical thought, women's studies, and urban studies. In Greece, there is almost no human geography research that focuses on children and youth. The chapter discusses the international project The Children's City' of the Laboratory of Children's Participation Psychology, Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies in Rome.