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SOCIOLOGICAL RESEARCH AND URBAN CHILDREN AND YOUTH

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SOCIOLOGICAL STUDIES OF CHILDREN AND YOUTH

Series Editor: David A. Kinney (from 1999)

Series Editors: David A. Kinney and Katherine Brown Rosier (2004–2010)

Series Editors: David A. Kinney and Loretta E. Bass (from 2011)

Series Editor: Loretta E. Bass (from 2012)

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Editorial Board

• Lars Alberth

  Leuphana University Lüneburg, Germany

• Sampson Lee Blair

  The State University of New York, USA

• Ingrid E. Castro

  Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts, USA

• Patricia Neff Claster

  Edinboro University, USA

• Tobia (Toby) Fattore

  Macquarie University, Australia

• Sam Frankel

  King’s University College at Western University, Canada

• David Kinney

  Central Michigan University, USA

• Valeria Llobet

  Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina

• Sandi Nenga

  Southwestern University, USA

• Doris Bühler-Niederberger

  Universität Wuppertal, Germany

• Kate Tilleczek

  York University, Canada

• Yvonne M. Vissing

  Salem State University, USA

• Nicole Warehime

  University of Central Oklahoma, USA

• Katie Wright

  La Trobe University, Australia

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Sociological Studies of Children and Youth - Volume 32

SOCIOLOGICAL RESEARCH AND URBAN CHILDREN AND YOUTH

EDITED BY

Rachel Berman

Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada

Patrizia Albanese

Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada

and

Xiaobei Chen

Carleton University, Canada

SERIES EDITOR

Loretta E. Bass

The University of Oklahoma, USA

United Kingdom – North America – Japan – India – Malaysia – China

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Contents

List of Figures and Tables

About the Editors

Rachel Berman is Professor and Graduate Program Director, School of Early Childhood Studies, Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada, and an adjunct member of the graduate program in Gender, Feminist & Women’s Studies at York University, Canada. She is the Co-editor of Equity as Praxis in Early Childhood Education and Care (Canadian Scholars Press, 2021). She recently led two projects funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Council, a federal research funding agency in Canada, focusing on “race” and anti-racism in early childhood learning contexts in and around Toronto.

Patrizia Albanese is Professor in the Department of Sociology and Interim Vice Provost Faculty Affairs, Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada. She is Co-editor of Reading Sociology: Decolonizing Canada (Oxford University Press, 2023) and numerous other titles. Her work focuses on policies affecting children, youth, and families. She is Lead Researcher on a Women and Gender Equality (WAGE) grant on the post-pandemic economic recovery of women in Toronto.

Xiaobei Chen is Professor of Sociology in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Carleton University, Canada, and a recent past President of the Canadian Sociological Association. Her research and teaching interests include: sociology of childhood and youth, governance and power, citizenship, racism, colonialism, citizenship, Asian diasporas especially the Chinese diaspora, and Buddhist social thought. She is Co-editor of The Sociology of Childhood and Youth in Canada (Canadian Scholar’s Press, 2017) and Reading Sociology: Decolonizing Canada (Oxford University Press, 2023). Her current research and community engagement are focused on anti-Asian racism and Sinophobia.

About the Contributors

Alex Bing is an adjunct Faculty and Instructor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Carleton University in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. He obtained his PhD in sociology in 2021. His research examines the impact of STEM-based (science, technology, engineering, and math) educational streaming on the civic engagement of Asian Canadian youth. He obtained his MA degree in 2015 in education, where he examined the history of the science–art divide in the Ontario educational system. He also received a degree in Engineering Science in 2012.

Edgar A. Burns is an Associate Professor, School of Social Sciences. He works as an Environmental Sociologist, examining social and personal factors motivating land-owners and communities to adopt sustainable water and land practices. His previous research has studied professions and professionalism. He writes on tertiary teaching and communication, and regenerative agriculture. He recently published Theorizing Professions with Palgrave Macmillan.

Sydney Chapados is a Doctoral student in Sociology at Carleton University in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Her research focuses on anti-poverty policies and programs in Canada. She is particularly interested in how these policies and programs conceptualize and address children and childhood in ways that direct state and extra-state interventions into the lives of children. She previously worked as a support worker in a shelter for women and children experiencing homelessness and draws on both practical and theoretical knowledge.

Sina Davoudi is a qualified civil and transport engineer and a PhD student at RMIT University, Melbourne. In his Master’s research, he studied children’s independent mobility and the role of environmental, socioeconomic and social cognition parental parameters affecting children’s transportation modes used in their daily educational journeys in Iran.

Christine Emeran holds a PhD in Sociology and is the Director of the Youth Free Expression Program at the National Coalition Against Censorship, based in New York City, USA. She is a Sociologist of young people’s social movements. She is the author of New Generation Political Activism in Ukraine: 2000–2014 (2017) and a contributing author of “The March for Our Lives Movement in the USA: Generational Change and the Personalization of Protest” in When Students Protest: Secondary and High Schools (Rowman & Littlefield, 2021).

Beatriz Gallo Cordoba, PhD, is a Research Fellow in Quantitative Data/Statistics in the Centre for Youth Policy and Education Practice within the School of Education, Culture and Society, Faculty of Education, Monash University, Australia. Her research focuses on the study of disadvantage in young people, how to measure and model it to acknowledge that this is a problem with multiple dimensions and levels.

Danielle Goldberg, MA, is Managing Director of the US Programs and the Child Friendly Cities Initiative at UNICEF USA. She was responsible for initiating and launching UNICEF’s global Child Friendly Cities Initiative in the USA and oversees UNICEF USA’s partnerships with municipal governments and community-based organizations in the USA to improve outcomes for children.

Susan Jagger is an Associate Professor in the School of Early Childhood Studies at Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada. Her research interests include environmental education, learning gardens, place-based education, community mapping, and participatory research with children.

Alice Leyman is a PhD Researcher in Human Geography at the University of Portsmouth in Hampshire, UK, and an Accredited Early Years Practitioner. Her areas of interests include play-based learning, flexible methods and attitudes to research methodology concerning children and young people, play activities and life experience in autistic individuals more generally and the creation of novel and alternate play spaces. She has an Associate Fellowship with the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) and is a member of the RGS-IBG Children, Youth and Families Research Group.

Bahar Manouchehri has worked as an Urban Planner for many years in Iran. She recently completed her PhD in Community Planning and Development in Melbourne, Australia, on the place of children within the Iranian planning system from both children’s points of view and planners’ perspectives. She has experience in child-friendly cities research, collaborative planning and citizens’ engagement and how to integrate marginalized groups into planning debates.

Masha Mikola, PhD, was employed as a Senior Research Officer within the School of Education, Culture and Society, Faculty of Education, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia at the time the chapter “The Digital Mediation of Everyday Lives in the City: Young People Negotiating Troubled Transitions During COVID-19” was written. She provided research, professional and administrative support across projects in the area of youth studies.

Angela Oulton is a Registered Early Childhood Educator, an Ontario Certified Teacher and a recent graduate of the Master of Arts in Early Childhood Studies program at Toronto Metropolitan University. She is a Field Placement Liaison Officer and Course Instructor at George Brown College in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Her research interests include social justice and nature education and their intersections with urban children’s lives.

Kristi Rudelius-Palmer, PhD, is the Human Rights Educators USA strategy advisor and curator. She is a founding steering committee member of Human Rights Educators USA and the University and College Consortium for Human Rights Education and serves on the executive committee of Child-Friendly Cities Initiative – Minneapolis-UNICEF. She co-directed the University of Minnesota Human Rights Center (1989–2016), including teaching as adjunct Associate Professor of Law and directing the International Humphrey Fellowship Program.

Ayyoob Sharifi is Associate Professor at Hiroshima University, Japan. His research is mainly at the interface of urbanism and climate change mitigation and adaptation. He actively contributes to global change research programs such as the Future Earth and is currently serving as a lead author for the Sixth Assessment Report (AR6) of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

Linda Jane Shaw is a Senior Lecturer in Early Childhood and Education Studies at Oxford Brookes University, UK. She worked for 15 years as a primary school teacher before moving into Further Education where she managed and delivered early years and Playwork qualifications. In 2007, she took up a consultancy post at Staffordshire County Council. The roles included support for new early years and youth provision, community development and a funded project on children’s transitions within and between settings. While working for local government, she completed an MA in Social Policy with a focus on statutory and third sector policy and practice. She moved into higher education in 2016, lecturing in human rights and social justice in education, feminist perspective in education and constructions of childhood. She completed her PhD in 2017 and has since published in Playwork journals and for the series Advances in Playwork Research. Her latest publication is a monograph titled Re-imagining Playwork Through a Poststructural Lens (Routledge, 2023).

Yvonne Vissing, PhD, is a Sociologist who is the Founding Director of the Center for Childhood and Youth Studies and Professor of Healthcare Studies at Salem State University, Massachusetts, USA. She is the US policy chair for the Hope for Children CRC Policy Center in Cyprus, on the Human Rights Council of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Steering Committee of Human Rights Educators USA and a former NIMH Post-Doctoral Research Fellow. She is the author of 15 books and many other publications.

Catherine Waite, PhD, is a Research Fellow in the Centre for Youth Policy and Education Practice within the School of Education, Culture and Society, Faculty of Education, Monash University, Australia. Her scholarly work is concerned with highlighting the inequalities faced by young people in contemporary Australia and providing a voice for those on the margins.

Lucas Walsh, PhD, is Director of the Monash Centre for Youth Policy and Education Practice within the School of Education, Culture and Society, Faculty of Education, Monash University, Australia. He is Chief-investigator with Mark Rickinson on The Q Project (Quality Use of Evidence Driving Quality Education) funded by The Paul Ramsay Foundation.

Maddy Wegner is an educator and journalist who has extensive experience developing experiential curricula for and with middle and high school students. She has taught in Vermont, California, and Idaho and lives in Minnesota, USA where she consults with school districts and non-profits on service-learning, civic engagement, and human rights integration. She is a member of the Human Rights Educators USA board.

Pamela Wridt, PhD, is the President of Conscious Data Inc., a female owned and operated company that specializes in ethical and participatory data collection on human rights, perceptions and experiences for planning, evaluation and learning. She served as Senior Child Friendly City Initiative Consultant and technical leader on behalf of UNICEF USA in adapting the approach and building capacity for CFCIs in the USA.

Adrianna Zhang is a first-year student at Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA. She is the Founder and Executive Director of the nationwide non-profit SF CHANGE and the Chair of the San Francisco Youth Commission. She spoke at TEDxCity of San Francisco 2021, and is a member of the National Vote16 Advisory Board and the Human Rights for Educators Steering Committee.