Young People, Border Spaces and Revolutionary Imaginations

Stuart C. Aitken is Professor of Geography at San Diego State University. His research interests include children, families, critical theory and qualitative methods. His books include The Awkward Spaces of Fathering (Ashgate, 2009) and Global Childhoods (Routledge 2008). He is current North American editor of Children's Geographies. Fernando J. Bosco is Associate Professor of Geography at San Diego State University, California, USA. He works at the intersection of social, political and cultural geographies, and his main research interest is critical analysis of space-society relations, with specific foci on children, families, communities, collective action and social change. Thomas Herman is Adjunct Professor of Geography and Project Director for the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies of Youth and Space at San Diego State University. His research examines the social geographies of children, families, and urban neighborhoods, and he provides technical assistance to non-profits and local governments in San Diego. Kate Swanson is Assistant Professor of Geography at San Diego State University. She is broadly interested in marginality, exclusion, and identity. She is the author of Begging as a Path to Progress: Indigenous Women and Children and the Struggle for Ecuador's Urban Spaces (University of Georgia Press, 2010).

1. Overturning Assumptions about Young People, Border Spaces and Revolutions Part 1: Borders as Bricolage 2. The Importance of Looking at the Border from a Young Person's Perspective 3. Listening for Spaces of Ordinariness: Filipino-Canadian Youths' Transnational Lives 4. Narratives from the Other Side: The Revelations and Dynamics of a Bi-national Pen-pal program in border spaces Part 2: Young People as La Frontera 5. "Not Bad for a Little Migrant Working Kid" 6. Glocalists in Tijuana: Youth, Cultural Citizenship and Cosmopolitan Identity 7. Play, Work or Activism? Broadening the Connections Between Political and Children's Geographies Part 3: Border Spaces and Revolution 8. Border Rootedness as Transformative Resistance: Youth Overcoming Violence and Inspection in a U.S.-Mexico Border Region 9. Youth on the Line and the No Borders Movement 10. Institutional Borders, Revolutionary Imaginings and the Becoming-adult of the Child Hadi 11. 'For Every Border, There is also a Bridge': Overturning Borders in Young Aboriginal Peoples' Lives