ABSTRACT
How children experience, negotiate and connect with or resist their surroundings impacts on their health and wellbeing. In cities, various aspects of the physical and social environment can affect children’s wellbeing. This edited collection brings together different accounts and experiences of children’s health and wellbeing in urban environments from majority and minority world perspectives.
Privileging children’s expertise, this timely volume explicitly explores the relationships between health, wellbeing and place. To demonstrate the importance of a place-based understanding of urban children’s health and wellbeing, the authors unpack the meanings of the physical, social and symbolic environments that constrain or enable children’s flourishing in urban environments. Drawing on the expertise of geographers, educationists, anthropologists, psychologists, planners and public health researchers, as well as nurses and social workers, this book, above all, sees children as the experts on their experiences of the issues that affect their wellbeing.
Children’s Health and Wellbeing in Urban Environments will be fascinating reading for anyone with an interest in cultural geography, urban geography, environmental geography, children’s health, youth studies or urban planning.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part 1|81 pages
Neighbourhood environments
chapter 1|13 pages
The miasma of occupation
part 2|59 pages
Home and away
chapter 9|17 pages
Child medical travel in Argentina
chapter 10|13 pages
Cycles of violence, girlhood and motherhood
part 3|45 pages
Gardens, greens and nature
chapter 12|15 pages
Is ‘natural’ education healthy education?
part 4|50 pages
Viewing wellbeing