Tracey Skelton
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 1116013 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Tracey Skelton |
| PRENOMES | Tracey |
| SOBRENOME | Skelton |
| ASSINATURA | SKELTON T |
| AFILIAÇÕES | National University of Singapore |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 68 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 738 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 60 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 8 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1996 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 16 |
Zoned for privilege
This article examines the relationship between sought-after school zones and spatial in/justice in Aotearoa-New Zealand, challenging the country’s enduring self-image as an egalitarian society. It reveals how elite state schools, valued for their social prestige, drive socio-spatial divides that entrench privilege within specific urban spaces. By influencing housing markets and facilitating residential sorting, these schools contribute to the con…
The death and life of urban public spaces
Young people play a central role in shaping public spaces, yet in contexts marked by control and surveillance their presence often generates tension. This study examines how young Iranians in Gorgan, aged 18–30, navigate and reshape restrictive urban environments, with a particular focus on the interplay between affect, atmosphere, and infrastructures. Drawing on photovoice, ethnographic observation, online and in-person interviews, we show that …
Including the Caribbean. A commentary on David Chandler and Jonathan Pugh's ‘Abyssal geography’
The Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography special lecture at the 2022 RGS-IBG Annual International Conference delivered by Jonathan Pugh (written with his co-author David Chandler), provided a stimulating discussion and triggered a range of engagements and challenges. The plenary raised a complex geographical challenge which had the title then of Abyssal Geographies and located us in the Anthropocene. Subsequently, as one of the three discussan…
Navigating the Racial Landscape
Scholars have noted the need for both empirical and theoretical research on the unique configurations of race and racism within Asia. This paper explores the racialized landscape encountered by Malay youth during their education and employment in the city-state of Singapore. We highlight the three unique building blocks which comprise the country’s racial landscape, namely (i) race is used as a naming device by the state; (ii) economic and social…
Geography Matters! [Audio podcast episode]
Full of Power
Knowledge and politics can be produced in a wide variety of places: a car, football terraces, picket lines, council estates. Doreen Massey was dedicated to popular education. In this introductory episode, we discuss the importance of intellectual spaces beyond the university
Absent‐Presence Present‐Absence
Children and young people are everywhere (present) but often nowhere (absent). They can be seen but not heard, they may use their voice but not be listened to. As a substantially marginalised group of humans, they experience absence and presence in different ways to older people and are confronted with contradictory experiences and recognition. Children and youth face a range of disadvantages in relational comparison of understandings and interpr…
Global Perspectives on the Absent Presence of Marginalised Children and Young People in the Public Realm
This paper introduces a collection of papers drawn from a session sponsored by the Geographies of Children, Youth and Families Research Group at the Annual International Conference of the RGS‐IBG in Cardiff (2018). This subsequent dossier seeks to advance our understanding of the ‘absent presence’ of marginalised children and young people in the public realm. The idea of an absent presence has permeated many fields of geographical scholarship and…
The importance of feminist audacity
In this commentary I glean parts of Underhill-Sem's article in order to structure a discussion around notions of ‘area’ and a particular set of collective events that took place in 2019 in several Pacific islands. Focusing on Samoa specifically, I work to examine the ways in which we can respond to Underhill-Sem's foregrounding of ‘contemporary Pacific indigeneity’ (Underhill-Sem, this issue, p. 314) as part of her commitment to the necessary pro…
Hydrating Hyderabad
The city of Hyderabad plays a significant role in urban transition processes at play in India. Cyberabad, a section of the city of Hyderabad, developed through the rapid urbanisation of rural villages and land, becoming a high-tech, state of the art, globally connected enclave. On weekday mornings in the neighbourhood of Madhapur, smartly dressed HITEC City workers, with ID tags, emerge from hostel accommodation and walk alongside large, black bu…
M assey, D oreen
Professor Doreen Massey (1944–2016) was a powerful, positive, critical academic‐activist who challenged and changed many aspects of geography, quite specifically through her work in regional and urban studies. She championed the significance and importance of space and place and decried the negative impacts of capitalism in everyday lives. Early in her career she channeled these ideas in the seminal text Spatial Divisions of Labour and latterly t…
Teaching sexuality across time, space and political contexts
Reflecting on a previous article, I evaluate changes encountered around teaching sexuality over the past 22 years in different geo-political settings. This article examines the ways in which my teaching practices, as an academic committed to equality, have developed in relation to different academic and political contexts. This personal pathway through learning and teaching work linked to sexuality has been, and still is, embedded within social, …
Families, Intergenerationality, and Peer Group Relations
Youthful geographies
Cool Places: Geographies of Youth Cultures published in 1998 effectively launched young people's geographies and provided interesting examples of the ‘cultural’ and ‘feminist turns’ through its engagement with cultural studies. It placed young people as central and showcased young arts students through their printmaking self-portraits. This article looks back to 1998 and forward beyond 2018 to explore the concept of ‘youthful geographies’. It ref…
Foreword. Playfulness in geography
FOREWORD. Playfulness in geography: respite from neo-liberalism in the academy?." Children's Geographies, 16(4), pp. 444–445
Afterword. Playfulness in geography
10.1080/14733285.2018.1457757
Building relationships and negotiating difference in international development volunteerism
There is growing recognition that building relationships is central to creating sustainable partnerships to achieve meaningful development outcomes. International development volunteers, embedded in the community where they are volunteering, are seen as being ideally placed to build and facilitate these relationships. The nature of international development volunteerism requires both volunteers and host organisations to negotiate through and acro…
Everyday Geographies
Geographies of everyday life focus on the everyday spaces where humans live out their lives. Theoretical insights are derived from de Certeau and Lefebvre, both of whom worked to develop critical insights of the everyday as problematic and to analyze the spaces and places of everyday life. Geographers pay attention to the mundane and banal aspects of the everyday but recognize the possibilities and potentiality of the extraordinary and the specta…
Cross‐Cultural Research
Cross‐cultural research is politically and conceptually complex. The very concept of “culture” has been questioned and debated by cultural geographers to the point that some argue there are no cultures to cross. For others the significance of cultural identities for colonized, marginalized, and persecuted groups is important to recognize. Cross‐cultural researchers, particularly those working with indigenous people, have developed political, theo…
Children and Youth
The relatively recent geographical focus on children and youth has developed rapidly into an established subdiscipline and has brought important social science approaches into the discipline of geography. The difficulty and complexity of accurately defining children, childhood, youth, and young people remains, but it has forced geographers to rethink the taken‐for‐granted character of these concepts. Geographies of children and young people are i…
Risk, Protection, Provision and Policy
Youthful futures? Aspirations, education and employment in Asia’
In this editorial article we frame how young people in Asia are reworking rapidly changing socio-economic, cultural conditions and constraining political structures to create possible successful futures and achieve their aspirations. We critically engage with interdisciplinary debates that conceptualise youth futures and provide an overview of current literature on this topic. Using the intense dynamism of the contemporary Asian region as a lens,…
Sunflowers, youthful protestors and political achievements
In 2014, an interesting youth movement collective started small p political and big P Political action and resistance in Taiwan. Their protest was against the way a major trade agreement proposed between China and Taiwan was being non-democratically pushed through the Taiwanese legislature. In this article, we provide an analysis of the activities of the Sunflower Student Movement (SSM) as a means to record a relatively little-known youthful and …
Identities and Subjectivities
Movement, Mobilities, and Journeys
Coming Out and Outcomes
In late modernity there has been a shift in the ways that individuals relate to society, in which traditional ideas, expectations, and hierarchies are being reworked. Released from the constraints and social norms of tradition, individuals, it is argued, are now freer to choose between a range of options in the pursuit of their own happiness. Notably, these social changes have been understood to provide more opportunities for lesbians and gay men…
Geographies of friendships
Friendships are an important part of what makes us, and our geographies of various kinds, human. We consider how geographers can contribute to efforts to afford friendship greater prominence in the social sciences. The main part of the article considers three strands of work on friendship that push the boundaries of research in human geography: (1) geographies of affect/emotion and the ontological construction of the human; (2) children’s and you…
Finding oneself, losing oneself
In recent years, geographers and urban sociologists have sought to map and understand the emergence and development of lesbian and gay spaces within the city - popularly dubbed 'the scene'. It is often asserted that the city is a space of sexual liberation and that specifically the 'scene' can play an important part in lesbian and gay men's identity formation and development. However, despite the range and richness of the academic literature on t…
Research with children and young people
This article offers a discussion of the ways in which institutional ethical frameworks can obstruct and obfuscate research with children and young people at the very same time as they attempt to protect these subjects of research. The article shows that key aspects of institutional ethical guidelines and regulations fly in the face of contemporary social studies of childhood, of which geography constitutes a significant part. The increasing recog…
Finding Oneself, Losing Oneself
Political participation, political action and political identities
This paper critically examines the dominant, and predominantly negative, discourses around young people's political participation, or supposed lack of it. Drawing upon contemporary debates about young people within geography, political science and sociology, it considers the ways in which a redefinition of what constitutes 'the political' is required if young people's engagement in political participation is to be understood fully. The paper repo…
Taking young people as political actors seriously
This article challenges the absence of young people from Political Geography. It shows how in many parts of the world young people are in an in‐between space politically and legally. This article suggests that the geographically divergent liminal positioning of young people within political–legal structures and institutional practices is what makes them extremely interesting political subjects. I argue for a deconstruction of the generally accept…
Children, Young People, Unicef and Participation
The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child is part of a significant shift in thinking about children, young people and childhood. It has introduced participation as the third P, alongside provision and protection. Development actors and policies have identified participation as a facet of meaningful social development. Academics have constructed new ways of conceptualising children, recognising them as competent social actors and social partici…
The Ethical and Methodological Complexities of Doing Research with 'Vulnerable' Young People
In discussing methodological and ethical codes for working with children there is a danger that young people can become homogenised as a social category. In this paper we examine the way in which common methodological and ethical dilemmas, such as accessing potential interviewees or gaining consent, can become more complex and significant when the research involves work with a 'vulnerable' group of children or youth. Here, we draw on our own expe…
Young People’s Urban Im/Mobilities
There is a mobility turn in the social sciences affecting how we scrutinise, research and represent the city. In recent scholarship on mobilities, global human mobilities have been identified as predominant. Nevertheless there have been calls for research that focuses on issues relating to everyday transportation, materialities and the spatial contexts of im/mobilities. This article is a response to those calls with a specific focus on young peop…
Introduction
Youthful futures? Aspirations, education and employment in Asia’
In this editorial article we frame how young people in Asia are reworking rapidly changing socio-economic, cultural conditions and constraining political structures to create possible successful futures and achieve their aspirations. We critically engage with interdisciplinary debates that conceptualise youth futures and provide an overview of current literature on this topic. Using the intense dynamism of the contemporary Asian region as a lens,…
Changing spaces
While there is a burgeoning literature on the role of ICT in the creation of new forms of social networks, dubbed on-line communities, much less attention has been paid to the complex set of relationships which are emerging between some off-line communities and the internet, and in particular to some of the new spatialities that are emerging as a result of community-based ICT practices. This paper develops this work by focusing on the example of …
Regulatory migration regimes and the production of space
Children's Geographies/Geographies of Children
Geographers play an important role in expanding our understanding of children's lives, socio-spatial identities and material practices. As a sub-discipline, Children's Geographies is experiencing exponential growth throughout the wider discipline of geography. There has been a tendency to corral Children's Geographies into special issues of journals and several of these are reviewed below. However, this article specifically draws upon geographica…
New spaces of development partnership
The concept of partnership is frequently invoked in international development as discourse and policy prescription to better understand relationships and engagements between donors and beneficiaries. Despite the increasing prominence of the idea of partnerships, in reality mutual, equal and sustainable development partnerships remain limited. This article examines the extent to which recent growth in international development volunteering can pro…
Living on the Edge
In this paper we examine D/deaf young people's sociospatial transitions from childhood to adulthood. We begin by identifying the common processes through which D/deaf young people may become marginalised in four spaces: at home, in educational institutions, in the workplace, and within Deaf communities. We then go on to consider how these shared predicaments may however result in different outcomes for individuals by focusing on four personal sto…
It feels like being Deaf is normal’
In this article we examine the ways in which young D/deaf British people express and experience their identities and how their D/deafness intersects with other self‐identifications. We examine the controversial debates within D/deaf communities, cultures and studies about D/deafness as disability versus D/deafness as linguistic minority. We explore the ways in which ‘Deaf ’ and ‘deaf ’ definitions and identities contradict, overlap, coexist and c…
Issues of sexuality in the teaching space
This article is based on the author's personal experience of teaching sexuality within the context of a second‐year geography option on social and cultural geography. The paper considers the issues which might surround deciding to teach sexuality and the complex questions around ‘coming out’ as a straight or gay tutor. It also addresses the question, ‘Why should I teach sexuality within my human geography modules?’. The final section of the artic…
The right to be heard
Building relationships and negotiating difference in international development volunteerism
There is growing recognition that building relationships is central to creating sustainable partnerships to achieve meaningful development outcomes. International development volunteers, embedded in the community where they are volunteering, are seen as being ideally placed to build and facilitate these relationships. The nature of international development volunteerism requires both volunteers and host organisations to negotiate through and acro…
Re-Defining 'Norms
Traditionally, young people's transitions from a state of dependent childhood to an independent adult identity have been measured in terms of a developmental stage model. However, it is increasingly being recognised that young people are not a universal category and that their transitions need to be understood within the diverse context of peers, family, and communities. This paper draws on a rich body of work from the interdisciplinary field of …
Girls in the Club
This paper discusses the ways in which a methodological approach evolved through research work with young women (aged 14-17) living in the Rhondda Valley of South Wales. The project was an investigation of their cultural geographies and micro-geographies and was informed by feminist geography's conceptualisation of gender. The qualitative methods were developed in conjunction with the young women. The methodology developed in a format which was i…
Outlaw Culture
Political Uncertainties And Natural Disasters
When a violent and unpredictable volcano erupted on the small Caribbean island of Montserrat the implications for the people who lived there were to be profound. Not only was this a natural disaster which forced people out of their homes and, for many, away from their island, it was also a point of conflict of political and cultural identity. Montserrat is a British Dependent Territory (BDTO) and Montserratians currently have no formal citizenshi…
Cultures of Land’ in the Caribbean
Outlaw Culture
Issues of sexuality in the teaching space
This article is based on the author's personal experience of teaching sexuality within the context of a second‐year geography option on social and cultural geography. The paper considers the issues which might surround deciding to teach sexuality and the complex questions around ‘coming out’ as a straight or gay tutor. It also addresses the question, ‘Why should I teach sexuality within my human geography modules?’. The final section of the artic…
Issues of Sexuality in the Teaching Space
Feminist Research Methodologies and Student Projects in Geography
Although there has been an increasing number of articles on teaching and gender, there has been little discussion of the implications of feminist research methodologies for student projects. This paper aims to overcome this 'blind spot' through discussion of the pedagogic implications raised by the adoption of such methodologies in student projects: choice of topic, choice of research methods, emancipatory role of the project, dilemmas experience…
Political Uncertainties And Natural Disasters
When a violent and unpredictable volcano erupted on the small Caribbean island of Montserrat the implications for the people who lived there were to be profound. Not only was this a natural disaster which forced people out of their homes and, for many, away from their island, it was also a point of conflict of political and cultural identity. Montserrat is a British Dependent Territory (BDTO) and Montserratians currently have no formal citizenshi…
The Ethical and Methodological Complexities of Doing Research with 'Vulnerable' Young People
In discussing methodological and ethical codes for working with children there is a danger that young people can become homogenised as a social category. In this paper we examine the way in which common methodological and ethical dilemmas, such as accessing potential interviewees or gaining consent, can become more complex and significant when the research involves work with a 'vulnerable' group of children or youth. Here, we draw on our own expe…
Girls in the Club
This paper discusses the ways in which a methodological approach evolved through research work with young women (aged 14-17) living in the Rhondda Valley of South Wales. The project was an investigation of their cultural geographies and micro-geographies and was informed by feminist geography's conceptualisation of gender. The qualitative methods were developed in conjunction with the young women. The methodology developed in a format which was i…
Finding Oneself, Losing Oneself
It feels like being Deaf is normal’
In this article we examine the ways in which young D/deaf British people express and experience their identities and how their D/deafness intersects with other self‐identifications. We examine the controversial debates within D/deaf communities, cultures and studies about D/deafness as disability versus D/deafness as linguistic minority. We explore the ways in which ‘Deaf ’ and ‘deaf ’ definitions and identities contradict, overlap, coexist and c…
Political participation, political action and political identities
This paper critically examines the dominant, and predominantly negative, discourses around young people's political participation, or supposed lack of it. Drawing upon contemporary debates about young people within geography, political science and sociology, it considers the ways in which a redefinition of what constitutes 'the political' is required if young people's engagement in political participation is to be understood fully. The paper repo…
Finding oneself, losing oneself
In recent years, geographers and urban sociologists have sought to map and understand the emergence and development of lesbian and gay spaces within the city - popularly dubbed 'the scene'. It is often asserted that the city is a space of sexual liberation and that specifically the 'scene' can play an important part in lesbian and gay men's identity formation and development. However, despite the range and richness of the academic literature on t…
Coming Out and Outcomes
In late modernity there has been a shift in the ways that individuals relate to society, in which traditional ideas, expectations, and hierarchies are being reworked. Released from the constraints and social norms of tradition, individuals, it is argued, are now freer to choose between a range of options in the pursuit of their own happiness. Notably, these social changes have been understood to provide more opportunities for lesbians and gay men…
Living on the Edge
In this paper we examine D/deaf young people's sociospatial transitions from childhood to adulthood. We begin by identifying the common processes through which D/deaf young people may become marginalised in four spaces: at home, in educational institutions, in the workplace, and within Deaf communities. We then go on to consider how these shared predicaments may however result in different outcomes for individuals by focusing on four personal sto…
Culture and Global Change
Culture and Global Change presents a comprehensive introduction to the cultural aspects of third world development. It contains 25 chapters from leading writers in the field who each explore a particular aspect of 'culture' and the significance and meaning of cultural issues for different people in throughout the contemporary world. With chapters dealing with the importance of 'Third World' cultures but also with changes in Russia, Japan, the USA…
Cool Places
There are estimated to be 340,000 16-29-year-olds with disabilities in Britain (Martin et al., 1988). Despite their numbers and heterogeneity they have remained largely invisible in representations of youth culture. Images of ‘super cripples’ overcoming all odds (Figure 5.1), evil ‘monsters’, bitter and twisted in body and mind, or pitiful charity cases in need of care and attention, account for most billboard, film and other media images of disa…
The Commonwealth Games Baton arrives in Montserrat’
For the first time ever the Commonwealth Games Baton is visiting all member countries of the Commonwealth as part of the (British) Queen's Baton Relay. Although the tiny Caribbean island of Montser
Islands for the young
Children, Young People, Unicef and Participation
The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child is part of a significant shift in thinking about children, young people and childhood. It has introduced participation as the third P, alongside provision and protection. Development actors and policies have identified participation as a facet of meaningful social development. Academics have constructed new ways of conceptualising children, recognising them as competent social actors and social partici…
The right to be heard
Re-Defining 'Norms
Traditionally, young people's transitions from a state of dependent childhood to an independent adult identity have been measured in terms of a developmental stage model. However, it is increasingly being recognised that young people are not a universal category and that their transitions need to be understood within the diverse context of peers, family, and communities. This paper draws on a rich body of work from the interdisciplinary field of …
Research with children and young people
This article offers a discussion of the ways in which institutional ethical frameworks can obstruct and obfuscate research with children and young people at the very same time as they attempt to protect these subjects of research. The article shows that key aspects of institutional ethical guidelines and regulations fly in the face of contemporary social studies of childhood, of which geography constitutes a significant part. The increasing recog…
Changing spaces
While there is a burgeoning literature on the role of ICT in the creation of new forms of social networks, dubbed on-line communities, much less attention has been paid to the complex set of relationships which are emerging between some off-line communities and the internet, and in particular to some of the new spatialities that are emerging as a result of community-based ICT practices. This paper develops this work by focusing on the example of …
‘An Umbilical Cord to the World’
Communication technologies have historically isolated D/deaf and hard of hearing people from information in mainstream society, for example, the telephone, radio, and television are all inaccessible to D/deaf without relay services or subtitles. This paper therefore begins by examining the consequences for D/deaf people's personal information landscapes of their exclusion from traditional off-line Information sources. It then goes onto examine ho…
Intersections of neoliberalism, mobilities and development in the Caribbean
10.1111/j.1467-9493.2009.00371.x
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