Hi All, with apologies for any cross-posting, please see below our CFP for #AAG2024, with a deadline of 8 Nov. Please feel free to share with your networks! Sincere thanks, Lorraine van Blerk and Janine Hunter
Session Title: Children and young people’s resilient lives in dynamic and challenging contexts
Recent times have seen multiple stressors impacting on young people’s life experiences globally and created challenging contexts for growing up. Heightened awareness of climate change has created anxiety for the future for many young people (Haynes and Tanner, 2015; Hickman, et al. 2021), while the impacts of global lockdowns during the COVID-19 pandemic resulted in missed schooling, reduced opportunities for employment and training and in more extreme cases exposure to violence and isolation (Bell, et al., 2023; Zougheibe, et al., 2023; Ungar and Theron, 2019). Economic austerity has further plunged more young people into poverty globally and conflicts in Ukraine, DRC and Gaza are causing devastation and increasing forced displacement in already stressed regions (Hart, 2023; Seymour, 2012). Yet, young people are resilient in the face of adversity, seeking opportunities for raising awareness of important issues, engaging in political debates, and creating strategies for life endurance and aspiration.
This session aims to explore resilience in young people’s lives and lived experiences in challenging contexts. In particular we are looking for papers that expand our understanding beyond individual-focused conceptualisations of resilience in relation to an environmental hazard or shock. We seek to explore the ways in which young people are resilient to multifaceted and dynamic everyday experiences and examine the ways in which this impacts on identities, relationships, aspirations and future lives. We encourage papers focusing on children and youth from diverse global contexts and where resilience emerges through a wide variety of experiences, including but not limited to:
• Homelessness
• Forced displacement
• Indigenous realities and postcolonial impacts
• COVID-19
• Economic austerity and un/under/employment
• Conflict and violence
• Climate anxiety
• Mental health challenges
• Chronic marginalisation and/or discrimination.
Submission:
This session will be a unique opportunity to gather researchers from across continents to meet, discuss and share on these important topics. Please submit your abstract to [log in to unmask] by Wednesday 8 November 2023 or contact us for any further information.
Organisers:
Lorraine van Blerk, Professor of Human Geography
Energy, Environment and Society, School of Humanities, Social Sciences and Law,
University of Dundee, Scotland, UK. T: +44 (0)1382 385445. E: [log in to unmask]
Recent Publications: https://discovery.dundee.ac.uk/en/persons/lorraine-van-blerk/publications/
Janine Hunter, Researcher, University of Dundee. E: [log in to unmask]
Recent Publications and story maps: https://www.dundee.ac.uk/people/janine-hunter
References
Bell, I. H., Nicholas, J., Broomhall, A., et al. (2023). The impact of COVID-19 on youth mental health: A mixed methods survey. Psychiatry Res. 321:115082. doi: 10.1016/j.psychres.2023.115082.
Hart, J., Procter, C., Alruzzi, M. (2023). Gaza conflict: how children’s lives are affected on every level. The Conversation, October 17, 2023. https://theconversation.com/gaza-conflict-how-childrens-lives-are-affected-on-every-level-215736
Haynes K. & Tanner, T.M. (2015). Empowering young people and strengthening resilience: youth-centred participatory video as a tool for climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction, Children's Geographies, 13:3, 357-371, DOI: 10.1080/14733285.2013.848599
Hickman, C., Marks, E., Pihkala, P., et al. (2021). Climate anxiety in children and young people and their beliefs about government responses to climate change: a global survey. The Lancet Planetary Health. https://doi.org/10.1016/S2542-5196(21)00278-3
Seymour, C. (2012). Ambiguous agencies: coping and survival in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, Children's Geographies, 10:4, 373-384, DOI: 10.1080/14733285.2012.726073
Ungar, M., & Theron, L. (2019). Resilience and mental health: how multisystemic processes contribute to positive outcomes. The Lancet Psychiatry. (5): 441-448. https://doi.org/10.1016/S2215-0366(19)30434-1
Zougheibe, R., Norman, R., Gudes, O. & Dewan, A. (2023). Geography of children’s worry during the COVID-19 pandemic: insights into variations, influences, and implications, Children's Geographies, DOI: 10.1080/14733285.2023.2253160
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