Children, Young People and Care

John Horton is Associate Professor in Human Geography and Associate Director of the Centre for Children and Youth (CCY) at the University of Northampton, UK. Michelle Pyer is a Senior Researcher in the Institute for Health and Wellbeing at the University of Northampton, UK.

1. Introduction: children, young people and ‘care’ 2. Who cares and how would you know? Conceptualising ‘doxic’ care 3. Theories underpinning kinship care 4. State of care: the ontologies of child welfare in British Columbia 5. Caring citizens: emotional engagement and social action in educational settings in New Zealand 6. Orphanages as spaces of care and control 7. Carefully controlled: young people and their pathways through spaces of secure care 8. Children creating spaces of care in diverse early childhood centre built environments: a complex interplay of social relations and materialities 9. Children and young people as providers of care: perceptions of caregivers and young caregiving in Zambia 10. Caring after parental death: sibling practices and continuing bonds 11. Kindness: caring for self, others and nature – who cares and why? 12. Young women’s careful and careless drinking geographies 13. Views of young people with cognitive disability about care in their relationships 14. Globalising child circulation: the care of children who are privately fostered across international borders 15. Reflection 1: Distance, connection and the power, freedom and obligation (not) to care 16. Reflection 2: Providing care: challenges for practitioners and service-providers 17. Reflection 3: Children, young people and ‘caringscapes’