Posted on behalf of Michael Leyshon
AAG 2005 Call for Papers
Youth and Civic Engagement
Denver, Colorado, 5-9 April 2005
(http://www.aag.org/annualmeetings/call_for_papers/call_for_papers1.html)
Contemporary research on young people and the provision of open public space
has begun to highlight the extent to which youth see themselves as part of or
apart from their communities (Jentsch and, Shucksmith, 2003). Yet relatively
few studies have attempted to address the extent to which these idealizations
and behaviors are being incorporated into the local planning process (McGrath,
2002). While traditional planning approaches tend to plan for young people,
few cases exist where youth are encouraged to take an active role in planning.
Similarly, much recent geographical research has offered an uncritical
treatment of informal recreation space and designing-in young people in
communities. In order to promote a greater awareness in the planning system
of young people’s needs the session will focus on the intersection of the
ways in which rural, suburban and urban youth are negotiating the increasing
annihilation of public space and the ways in which communities attempt to
control or accommodate youth behavior.
Contributions are invited from scholars researching young people’s geographies
and planning for young people, with interests in ‘power’, ‘planning’,
‘governance’, ‘class’ and the construction of public space.
Please send expressions of interest to the organisers by 30 September 2004.
Michael Leyshon, Department of Geography, University of Exeter in Cornwall,
Tremough Campus, Treliever Road, Penryn, Cornwall, TR10 9EZ. Email
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Sean M. DiGiovanna, Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy,
Rutgers—The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ 08901. Email
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Dr. Michael Leyshon
University of Exeter in Cornwall
Department of Geography
Tremough Campus
Treliever Road
Penryn
Cornwall
TR10 9EZ
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