Guest Editorial: Political geographies of children and young people
Guest Editorial: Political geographies of children and young people
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客座社论：儿童和青少年的政治地理学
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2003
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F. Smith
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C. Philo;F. Smith
本文的目的是介绍本期《空间与政治》特刊，探讨儿童和青少年的政治地理学问题。历史上，该子学科很少受到关注，因为儿童和年轻人似乎对国家、民族、地缘政治等的运作几乎没有积极影响，现在有一些小迹象表明政治地理学家可能如何以及为何重新审视这一人群的经历和贡献。基于大萧条期间儿童和年轻人写给埃莉诺·罗斯福的信件的实证小插曲被用来发展这一主张。然后，对“以成人为中心”和“以儿童为中心”的儿童和年轻人的政治地理进行了对比，这与“宏观政治”和“微观政治”之间的区别和联系有关。有人建议，尽管以儿童为中心的方法可以得出令人兴奋的见解，但这种情况不应使这些方法优于以成人为中心的方法。事实上，有人认为，沿着这样的路线走下去是有危险的，从而将“政治”瓦解为“个人”，从而错过了需要研究和书写的地理学的独特政治性。在简要讨论了关于（后）现代儿童和年轻人所谓的政治冷漠的辩论之后，本文介绍了本期特刊的其他贡献。
The purpose of this paper is to introduce the present Special Issue of Space & Polity tackling the political geographies of children and young people. Historically given scant attention by the sub-discipline, since children and young people appear to have little active influence on the workings of states, nations, geopolitics and the like, there are now small signs of how and why political geographers might look anew at the experiences and contribu tions of this population cohort. An empirical vignette, based on letters written by children and young people to Eleanor Roosevelt during the Great De pression, is deployed to develop this claim. Contrasts are then drawn between political geographies of children and young people that are ‘adult-centred’ and those that are ‘child-centred’, as related to claims about the distinctions and connections between ‘macro-politics’ and ‘micro-politics’. It is suggested that, notwithstanding the exciting insights to be derived from child-centred approaches, the situation should not be a matter of privileging these over adult-centred approaches. Indeed, it is argued that there are dangers in going down such a route and of thereby collapsing ‘the political’ into ‘the personal’, thus missing what is distinctively political about the geographies needing to be researched and written. Following a brief excursion into debates about the supposed political apathy of (post)modern children and young people, the paper then introduces the other contributions to the Special Issue.