Amy Walker
Biographic Data
| ID | 3600425 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Amy Walker |
| GIVEN NAMES | Amy |
| FAMILY NAME | Walker |
| SIGNATURE | WALKER A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Kent State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6383-5633 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 18 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Emancipation literacies: Healing, resistance, and the power of becoming in and out of the classroom
This article theorizes emancipation literacies as a framework for how Black and Brown youth reimagine their lives in and beyond schooling. Stemming from a classroom exchange that revealed tensions among emancipation, liberation, and freedom, the authors argue that emancipation is a self‐directed, ongoing practice rather than a status granted by institutions. Grounded in Black intellectual traditions such as Marcus Garvey, Bob Marley, W. E. B. Du …
‘I have a galaxy hand’: Centering children and youth in spatial reclamation within the nexus of practice
In this article, we examine how children and youth reclaim space in adult-centered and adult-constructed settings. Using a spatial reclamation framework, this research explores how children and youth use their awareness of power dynamics to assert themselves to gain visibility. Using nexus analysis and narrative inquiry, we analyze embodied action and storytelling across children’s actions on a public housing playground and youth’s protesting pra…
Fostering antiracist pedagogies: Centering Black and Brown students through instructional practices as semiotics of care and hope
This article explores two critical ethnographic studies that emphasised the need to recognise and reshape education hierarchies, particularly to empower Black and Brown students towards racial justice and equity. We engage with in-service and pre-service teachers to centre young people, empower them to challenge power relations, and envision positive trajectory despite adversity, urging agency and visibility. Our studies are framed in critical ho…
You can't ignore us”: Multiliteracies and disruption in youth activism
This article examines the activism of student protesters in a rural Rust Belt community's Black Lives Matter protest, challenging prevailing stereotypes about civic engagement, literacies, and youth involvement in rural settings. Utilizing critical ethnography and nexus analysis to examine disruptions of discourses in place and interview student participants about their activism, findings showcase how students strategically practiced multiliterac…
Nostalgia and the cruel promises of austerity: Neoliberal narratives and post-industrial memory in the South Wales coalfield
Austerity in the United Kingdom has been widely framed, in academic and popular representations, as a nostalgic project, drawing legitimacy from idealised images of a resilient past. We argue that these notions of resilience embedded in austerity discourses parallel nostalgic attachments to mining legacies in the South Wales coalfield. Through analysing the promises and strategies behind austerity, we explore its complex dynamics in post-industri…
Advancing Middle Grade Research on Critical Pedagogy: Research Synthesis
In this critical literature review, we examine how middle-level pedagogies, specifically critical pedagogies, impact students’ academic, physical, and socioemotional development. This literature review examines critical pedagogies research in middle-level education, focusing on methods that address systemic inequities and center diverse and historically marginalized student populations. Examining the literature from 2013 to 2023, key findings ind…
Transformative Potential of Culturally Responsive Teaching: Examining Preservice Teachers’ Collaboration Practices Centering Refugee Youth
Using a critical ethnographic approach, this research explores the experiences of preservice teachers in a Midwestern educator preparation program as they plan and implement an interdisciplinary community exploration and learning project using culturally responsive teaching practices to center local refugee youth. Data collection includes observing collaborative planning processes, collecting written reflections and photographs, and conducting po…
On geographies of endurance and inevitability in the context of UK austerity: A response to Sarah Marie Hall’s “A Pregnant Pause?”
Parents’ Challenges beyond the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit: Fraying at the Seams while Balancing between Two Worlds, Home and Hospital
Even though parents were physically and emotionally present with their child in the PICU, they felt frayed as they concurrently struggled with their physical distance from other children at home. This strain of living in two worlds caused feelings of inadequacy to fulfill their parental role
I don't know where all the cutlery is: Exploring Materiality and Homemaking in Post-Separation Families
This paper explores the ways in which home is experienced by children within post-separation families, who spend time within more than one parental home. To do so it draws on semi-structured interviews with fifteen young adults looking back on their childhood experiences. It argues that for these young people, home is a complex achievement, created and constrained, in part, through emotional encounters with domestic objects, interiors and furnish…
Articulating encounters between children and plastics
In the context of global concerns about plastics, this paper sets out and exemplifies a research agenda for articulating children's encounters with plastics. The paper analyses data co-produced with 11-15 year-olds through interviews, app-based research and experimental/arts-led workshops. It moves beyond scholarship in health and environmental sciences, and in environmental education research, to outline a far richer range of ways to conceptuali…
So you’re literally taking the piss?! Critically analysing and accounting for ethics (and risk) in interdisciplinary research on children and plastics
Whilst interdisciplinarity has been an integral part of childhood studies, it is less common for social scientists and natural scientists to collaborate in this space – and especially with scholars like environmental (nano)scientists. This paper draws on vignettes from a project about children and plastics, which combined a range of qualitative, artistic and biosampling methods. Focusing on these methodological intersections, the paper critically…
Supporting Disaster Resilience Spatial Thinking with Serious GeoGames: Project Lily Pad
The need for improvement of societal disaster resilience and response efforts was evident after the destruction caused by the 2017 Atlantic hurricane season. We present a novel conceptual framework for improving disaster resilience through the combination of serious games, geographic information systems (GIS), spatial thinking, and disaster resilience. Our framework is implemented via Project Lily Pad, a serious geogame based on our conceptual fr…
Geographies of Post-Industrial Place, Memory, and Heritage
This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Routledge via the DOI in this record
That’s politics!’ A critical commentary on the mediation of democracy in Orange is the New Black
I don't know where all the cutlery is: Exploring Materiality and Homemaking in Post-Separation Families
This paper explores the ways in which home is experienced by children within post-separation families, who spend time within more than one parental home. To do so it draws on semi-structured interviews with fifteen young adults looking back on their childhood experiences. It argues that for these young people, home is a complex achievement, created and constrained, in part, through emotional encounters with domestic objects, interiors and furnish…
So you’re literally taking the piss?! Critically analysing and accounting for ethics (and risk) in interdisciplinary research on children and plastics
Whilst interdisciplinarity has been an integral part of childhood studies, it is less common for social scientists and natural scientists to collaborate in this space – and especially with scholars like environmental (nano)scientists. This paper draws on vignettes from a project about children and plastics, which combined a range of qualitative, artistic and biosampling methods. Focusing on these methodological intersections, the paper critically…
Articulating encounters between children and plastics
In the context of global concerns about plastics, this paper sets out and exemplifies a research agenda for articulating children's encounters with plastics. The paper analyses data co-produced with 11-15 year-olds through interviews, app-based research and experimental/arts-led workshops. It moves beyond scholarship in health and environmental sciences, and in environmental education research, to outline a far richer range of ways to conceptuali…
Nostalgia and the cruel promises of austerity: Neoliberal narratives and post-industrial memory in the South Wales coalfield
Austerity in the United Kingdom has been widely framed, in academic and popular representations, as a nostalgic project, drawing legitimacy from idealised images of a resilient past. We argue that these notions of resilience embedded in austerity discourses parallel nostalgic attachments to mining legacies in the South Wales coalfield. Through analysing the promises and strategies behind austerity, we explore its complex dynamics in post-industri…
That’s politics!’ A critical commentary on the mediation of democracy in Orange is the New Black
Supporting Disaster Resilience Spatial Thinking with Serious GeoGames: Project Lily Pad
The need for improvement of societal disaster resilience and response efforts was evident after the destruction caused by the 2017 Atlantic hurricane season. We present a novel conceptual framework for improving disaster resilience through the combination of serious games, geographic information systems (GIS), spatial thinking, and disaster resilience. Our framework is implemented via Project Lily Pad, a serious geogame based on our conceptual fr…
Geographies of Post-Industrial Place, Memory, and Heritage
This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Routledge via the DOI in this record
So you’re literally taking the piss?! Critically analysing and accounting for ethics (and risk) in interdisciplinary research on children and plastics
Whilst interdisciplinarity has been an integral part of childhood studies, it is less common for social scientists and natural scientists to collaborate in this space – and especially with scholars like environmental (nano)scientists. This paper draws on vignettes from a project about children and plastics, which combined a range of qualitative, artistic and biosampling methods. Focusing on these methodological intersections, the paper critically…
Parents’ Challenges beyond the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit: Fraying at the Seams while Balancing between Two Worlds, Home and Hospital
Even though parents were physically and emotionally present with their child in the PICU, they felt frayed as they concurrently struggled with their physical distance from other children at home. This strain of living in two worlds caused feelings of inadequacy to fulfill their parental role
I don't know where all the cutlery is: Exploring Materiality and Homemaking in Post-Separation Families
This paper explores the ways in which home is experienced by children within post-separation families, who spend time within more than one parental home. To do so it draws on semi-structured interviews with fifteen young adults looking back on their childhood experiences. It argues that for these young people, home is a complex achievement, created and constrained, in part, through emotional encounters with domestic objects, interiors and furnish…
Articulating encounters between children and plastics
In the context of global concerns about plastics, this paper sets out and exemplifies a research agenda for articulating children's encounters with plastics. The paper analyses data co-produced with 11-15 year-olds through interviews, app-based research and experimental/arts-led workshops. It moves beyond scholarship in health and environmental sciences, and in environmental education research, to outline a far richer range of ways to conceptuali…
Transformative Potential of Culturally Responsive Teaching: Examining Preservice Teachers’ Collaboration Practices Centering Refugee Youth
Using a critical ethnographic approach, this research explores the experiences of preservice teachers in a Midwestern educator preparation program as they plan and implement an interdisciplinary community exploration and learning project using culturally responsive teaching practices to center local refugee youth. Data collection includes observing collaborative planning processes, collecting written reflections and photographs, and conducting po…
On geographies of endurance and inevitability in the context of UK austerity: A response to Sarah Marie Hall’s “A Pregnant Pause?”
Advancing Middle Grade Research on Critical Pedagogy: Research Synthesis
In this critical literature review, we examine how middle-level pedagogies, specifically critical pedagogies, impact students’ academic, physical, and socioemotional development. This literature review examines critical pedagogies research in middle-level education, focusing on methods that address systemic inequities and center diverse and historically marginalized student populations. Examining the literature from 2013 to 2023, key findings ind…
Fostering antiracist pedagogies: Centering Black and Brown students through instructional practices as semiotics of care and hope
This article explores two critical ethnographic studies that emphasised the need to recognise and reshape education hierarchies, particularly to empower Black and Brown students towards racial justice and equity. We engage with in-service and pre-service teachers to centre young people, empower them to challenge power relations, and envision positive trajectory despite adversity, urging agency and visibility. Our studies are framed in critical ho…
You can't ignore us”: Multiliteracies and disruption in youth activism
This article examines the activism of student protesters in a rural Rust Belt community's Black Lives Matter protest, challenging prevailing stereotypes about civic engagement, literacies, and youth involvement in rural settings. Utilizing critical ethnography and nexus analysis to examine disruptions of discourses in place and interview student participants about their activism, findings showcase how students strategically practiced multiliterac…
Nostalgia and the cruel promises of austerity: Neoliberal narratives and post-industrial memory in the South Wales coalfield
Austerity in the United Kingdom has been widely framed, in academic and popular representations, as a nostalgic project, drawing legitimacy from idealised images of a resilient past. We argue that these notions of resilience embedded in austerity discourses parallel nostalgic attachments to mining legacies in the South Wales coalfield. Through analysing the promises and strategies behind austerity, we explore its complex dynamics in post-industri…
Emancipation literacies: Healing, resistance, and the power of becoming in and out of the classroom
This article theorizes emancipation literacies as a framework for how Black and Brown youth reimagine their lives in and beyond schooling. Stemming from a classroom exchange that revealed tensions among emancipation, liberation, and freedom, the authors argue that emancipation is a self‐directed, ongoing practice rather than a status granted by institutions. Grounded in Black intellectual traditions such as Marcus Garvey, Bob Marley, W. E. B. Du …
‘I have a galaxy hand’: Centering children and youth in spatial reclamation within the nexus of practice
In this article, we examine how children and youth reclaim space in adult-centered and adult-constructed settings. Using a spatial reclamation framework, this research explores how children and youth use their awareness of power dynamics to assert themselves to gain visibility. Using nexus analysis and narrative inquiry, we analyze embodied action and storytelling across children’s actions on a public housing playground and youth’s protesting pra…
Sociology (11 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Political science (7 works) · History (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Children's Rights and Participation (3 works) · Educator Training and Historical Pedagogy (3 works) · History (3 works)