Sarah Mill
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 106748 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Sarah Mill |
| PRENOMES | Sarah |
| SOBRENOME | Mill |
| ASSINATURA | MILL S |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Loughborough University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0645-1596 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 49 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 373 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 49 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2007 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 10 |
Digital geographies of/and childhood and youth
This article explores research on digital geographies of childhood and youth , critically considering (potential) contributions to wider scholarship in geography and interdisciplinary childhood studies. Although geographers’ engagement with this emerging field is developing productively, extant scholarship remains relatively diffuse and research methods-focused; more sustained interrogation of digital processes and experiences with/in young peopl…
Geographies of Prediction Markets
This commentary outlines the economic, political and moral geographies of prediction markets and maps how they are gamifying the future. These digital platforms are transforming the gambling industry and raising significant ethical questions
Re‐Thinking the Imposter Participant
Imposter participants are participants who falsely claim to meet inclusion criteria. They are an increasingly recognised issue in the interdisciplinary methods literature, an issue which has been exacerbated by the development of online research methods. This existing work recognises imposter participants as a frustration in the research process and provides important interventions that raise awareness and provide strategies of detection and prev…
Civil society in crisis times
The gamification of citizenship
This paper outlines the ‘gamification of citizenship’ through a focus on digital rewards, participation and volunteering. In recent years, a proliferation of mobile apps have incentivised behaviour change in various contexts such as health and sustainability. The growth of ‘gamification’ (using elements of game design in non-gaming contexts) in these popular mobile apps is now making ‘good citizenship’ a game to play, with real prizes to be won. …
Children's environmental citizen science
Compared to our understanding of adult participation in environmental citizen science (CS), the current literature on child engagement is limited. As adult stakeholders may control children's access to environmental CS (through recruitment strategies, resource provision or as gatekeepers), it is important to understand their experiences and perceptions of engaging children in environmental CS. Semistructured online interviews were conducted with …
Immigration and the contested politics of volunteering as ‘good behaviour’
Following the release of the UK Government’s recent White Paper on Immigration (2025), this provocation critically reflects on the role of points-based contributions, voluntary service and ‘good character’ within this policy landscape. We importantly identify a collision of geographies centred on mobilities, volunteering, citizenship, character, belonging, displacement and professionalization in both the White Paper and the immediate response to …
Reconceptualising volunteering, crisis and precarity
The scale, forms and distribution of volunteering amongst refugee youth populations in Uganda
Geographies of volunteering have examined the relationships between people, places and forms of voluntary action, but there has been limited geographical scholarship on the scales, forms and distribution of volunteering amongst specific populations in different settings, particularly in the global South. While in the global North there are some established quantitative data sets, often produced by humanitarian and development organisations, these…
Digital geographies of home
This paper advances debates at the intersection of geographies of children, youth and families, digital geographies, and geographies of home. We argue that social, seasonal and limited time are vitally important for understanding the new landscape between gaming and gambling and have wider analytical purchase for geographers. The paper reveals parenting practices connected to the multi-billion-dollar industry of paid-for currency in digital games…
The Reproduction of Inequality Through Volunteering by Young Refugees in Uganda
Research confronting inequality in volunteering has mostly focused on the attribution of its benefits to different groups and communities, with little attention paid towards fundamental factors that shape such inequalities and how these intersect with volunteering opportunities. This paper highlights the importance of volunteering for young refugees in Uganda, as a means of both learning new skills and earning a livelihood. However, evidence sugg…
Children and Young People's Experiences and Understandings of Gambling-Style Systems in Digital Games
Developing current geographical debates on children's digital geographies and popular culture, this article examines children and young people's experiences and understandings of gambling-style systems in digital games. Chance-based mechanisms such as loot boxes are a growing feature of the global gaming industry. This article examines the space between gaming and gambling and provides new perspectives to this emerging field, drawing on empirical…
Geographies of the event? Rethinking time and power through digital interfaces
This paper examines work in cultural and human geography that theorises temporality in terms of events. Moving from humanist phenomenology, to non-representational and assemblage theories and current geographies of encounter, it suggests these accounts of events tend to analyse the past and future through the lens of the present. Building upon these literatures and the work of Tristan Garcia, the paper argues for an expanded notion of the event, …
The state and voluntary sector in austere times
In this article we examine the latest chapter in the relationship between the state and the voluntary sector in the UK. We present an analysis of the UK Government’s ‘National Citizen Service’ (NCS) scheme and map the landscape of youth services over the past decade. Drawing on interview data with delivery providers of the programme, and key government and policy actors, we explore the new geographies NCS has created and reflect on the wider impl…
Uneven geographies of youth volunteering in Uganda
This paper develops a multi-scalar geography of youth volunteering in Uganda. A growing body of research has explored the geographies of volunteering in the global North and international volunteering and development. However, despite the mainstreaming of volunteers as development actors, less attention has been paid to the unique local and national geographies of volunteering in global South settings. This paper explores how and why different id…
Mapping the Moral Geographies of Education
This book explores the growth of ‘character education’ in schools and youth organisations over the last decade. It delves into historical and contemporary debates through a geopolitical lens. With a renewed focus on values and virtues such as grit, gumption, perseverance, resilience, generosity, and neighbourliness, this book charts the re-imagining and re-fashioning of a ‘character agenda’ in England and examines its multiscalar geographies. It …
Psychometric evaluation of the Multidimensional Health Locus of Control scales in English- and Spanish-speaking Hispanic Americans
The English and Spanish versions of the Multidimensional Health Locus of Control scales have not been psychometrically evaluated for use with Hispanic Americans. Hispanic American adults ( N = 436) completed the English ( n = 210) or Spanish ( n = 226) Multidimensional Health Locus of Control scales. A multiple-group confirmatory factor analysis did not support equivalent four-factor structures for Spanish- and English-speaking Hispanic Americans…
Educational landscapes
In this editorial introduction, we outline recent debates on geographies of education, specifically on themes of nature, place, and outdoor landscapes. We argue for the need to extend these discussions due to the rising popularity and politicisation of educational encounters in outdoor landscapes, as well as their long-standing relationship to a series of moral geographies. We introduce the main focus of the five papers in this themed collection,…
The ‘youth-fullness’ of youth geographies
The 21st anniversary of Cool Places (Skelton, T., and G. Valentine, eds. 1998. Cool Places: Geographies of Youth Cultures. London: Routledge) provides an opportunity to reflect on the direction of travel in youth geographies and map out future journeys. Here, we argue that scholarship on youth geographies is increasingly dispersed across sub-disciplinary niches of Human Geography. A more conspicuous point of coalescence would be beneficial for th…
Questions of agency
Geographies of Children, Youth and Families is flourishing, but its founding conceptions require critical reflection. This paper considers one key conceptual orthodoxy: the notion that children are competent social actors. In a field founded upon liberal notions of agency, we identify a conceptual elision between the benefits of studying agency and the beneficial nature of agency. Embracing post-structuralist feminist challenges, we propose a pol…
Feminist Geopolitics
This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in he AAG Review of Books on 16 Oct 2017, available online: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/2325548X.2017.1366848
Voice
This article uses the sonic geographies of childhood as an entry point into long-standing and important debates in the sub-discipline on ‘voice’. The article uniquely explores children’s voices from the past through considering a different type of research material – archival audio recordings. It argues that literally listening to past children’s voices (and noises, sounds and silences) can offer fresh insights into the concept of voice that tend…
From Big Society to Shared Society? Geographies of social cohesion and encounter in the UK’s National Citizen Service
This article explores and expands debates on the geographies of social cohesion and encounter, specifically in relation to young people and informal citizenship training. Three questions drive our agenda in this paper. First, how do certain youth spaces get enrolled into wider political discourses, functioning as geographical expressions of government visions to create a political legacy? Second, how are these spaces engineered and operate on-the…
Brands of youth citizenship and the politics of scale
This paper explores the politics of scale in the context of youth citizenship. We propose the concept of ‘brands of youth citizenship’ to understand recent shifts in the state promotion of citizenship formations for young people, and demonstrate how scale is crucial to that agenda. As such, we push forward debates on the scaling of citizenship more broadly through an examination of the imaginative and institutional geographies of learning to be a…
Jives, jeans and Jewishness? Moral geographies, atmospheres and the politics of mixing at the Jewish Lads' Brigade & Club 1954-1969
This paper examines a series of anxieties about mixing at the Jewish Lads' Brigade and Club (JLB & C) in Manchester, UK during the 1950s and 1960s, primarily focused on inter-faith activities, relationships and marriages. This paper explores how a powerful moral geography of gender and religion came to be shaped, regulated and negotiated at this youth work space. The concerns expressed by some adults over teenage encounters in the post-war city w…
Questions of agency
Geographies of Children, Youth and Families is flourishing, but its founding conceptions require critical reflection. This paper considers one key conceptual orthodoxy: the notion that children are competent social actors. In a field founded upon liberal notions of agency, we identify a conceptual elision between the benefits of studying agency and the beneficial nature of agency. Embracing post-structuralist feminist challenges, we propose a pol…
Cultural-Historical Geographies of the Archive
This article reviews the increasingly diverse ways in which geographers are engaging with archives. Although traditionally associated with historical geography, cultural-historical geographers have recently 'animated' the archive and its collections of fragments, objects and ghosts. Through this article, I provide an overview of the central characteristics of work in this field, as well as considering the discipline's wider relationship with arch…
An instruction in good citizenship’
This paper examines informal citizenship training for youth and the historical geographies of education over time through analysing the Scout Movement in Britain and its activities in the first half of the twentieth century. In doing so, it highlights the complexity of youth citizenship and the significance of non‐school spaces in civil society to our understandings of young people’s positioning as citizen‐subjects. Drawing on archival research, …
Scouting for girls? Gender and the Scout Movement in Britain
This article brings a feminist geopolitics to bear upon an analysis of the Boy Scout Movement in Britain in order to illustrate how an emphasis upon seemingly banal, embodied practices such as dressing, writing and crafting can provide a counter-view to prevailing notions of the elite, organisational ‘scripting’ of individualised, geopolitical identities. Here, these practices undertaken by girls are understood not as subversive, or even transgre…
Geographies of education, volunteering and the lifecourse
This article extends the current scholarly focus within the geographies of education and the geographies of children, youth and families through an original examination of the Woodcraft Folk - a British youth organization founded in 1925 that aimed to create a world built on equality, friendship and peace. This article illustrates how voluntary uniformed youth organizations had a much wider spatial remit and more complex institutional geographies…
Young ghosts
Geographers researching children and young people have often been at the forefront of disciplinary\ndebates in geography surrounding methodological practice and ethical considerations\n(Matthews et al. 1998, Valentine 1999, Pain 2004, Hemming 2008, Hopkins and Bell 2008,\nvan Blerk and Barker 2008). In this short paper, I want to focus on a less-popular research\nmethod used by children’s geographers – archival methods (cf. Gagen 2000, 2001) – an…
Brands of youth citizenship and the politics of scale
This paper explores the politics of scale in the context of youth citizenship. We propose the concept of ‘brands of youth citizenship’ to understand recent shifts in the state promotion of citizenship formations for young people, and demonstrate how scale is crucial to that agenda. As such, we push forward debates on the scaling of citizenship more broadly through an examination of the imaginative and institutional geographies of learning to be a…
Duty to God/my Dharma/Allah/Waheguru
This article was published in the journal, Social and Cultural Geography [© Taylor & Francis] and the definitive version is available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14649365.2012.698749
Cultural geographies of education
This is the guest editorial published in the journal, Cultural Geographies http://dx.doi.org/ 10.1177/1474474015612717
Geographies of youth work, volunteering and employment
This paper brings together current geographical debates on volunteering and employment through a unique focus on post‐war youth work. I use the example of the Jewish Lads' Brigade and Club in Manchester, UK to make a series of wider arguments about the emotional labour of paid/unpaid work, faith‐based identities and the spatialities of informal education. Through conceptualising youth work as a series of localised and inherently spatial practices…
Voice
This article uses the sonic geographies of childhood as an entry point into long-standing and important debates in the sub-discipline on ‘voice’. The article uniquely explores children’s voices from the past through considering a different type of research material – archival audio recordings. It argues that literally listening to past children’s voices (and noises, sounds and silences) can offer fresh insights into the concept of voice that tend…
Divergent geographies of policy and practice? Voluntarism and devolution in England, Scotland and Wales
Across Great Britain, engagement with civil society is an increasingly central component of public policy and governance rhetoric. However, attention has tended to focus on policy developments emanating from Westminster that relate to England, rather than the policy and governance 'spaces' emerging in the devolved administrations, such as Scotland and Wales. It has also tended to focus on the organisations through which voluntary participation ta…
Surprise! Public historical geographies, user engagement and voluntarism
This paper aims to expand understandings of ‘public geographies’, not usually associated with historical geography, through considering voluntarism. It seeks to bring together debates on research practice, positionality and the ‘surprise’ instances of user engagement. To do so, it draws on two experiences and opportunities that emerged during my doctoral research in Wales on the cultural‐historical geographies of scouting in Britain: first, curat…
Geographies of the event? Rethinking time and power through digital interfaces
This paper examines work in cultural and human geography that theorises temporality in terms of events. Moving from humanist phenomenology, to non-representational and assemblage theories and current geographies of encounter, it suggests these accounts of events tend to analyse the past and future through the lens of the present. Building upon these literatures and the work of Tristan Garcia, the paper argues for an expanded notion of the event, …
The ‘youth-fullness’ of youth geographies
The 21st anniversary of Cool Places (Skelton, T., and G. Valentine, eds. 1998. Cool Places: Geographies of Youth Cultures. London: Routledge) provides an opportunity to reflect on the direction of travel in youth geographies and map out future journeys. Here, we argue that scholarship on youth geographies is increasingly dispersed across sub-disciplinary niches of Human Geography. A more conspicuous point of coalescence would be beneficial for th…
Jives, jeans and Jewishness? Moral geographies, atmospheres and the politics of mixing at the Jewish Lads' Brigade & Club 1954-1969
This paper examines a series of anxieties about mixing at the Jewish Lads' Brigade and Club (JLB & C) in Manchester, UK during the 1950s and 1960s, primarily focused on inter-faith activities, relationships and marriages. This paper explores how a powerful moral geography of gender and religion came to be shaped, regulated and negotiated at this youth work space. The concerns expressed by some adults over teenage encounters in the post-war city w…
Be Prepared
This article examines the exposure, and in some cases dismissal, of Boy Scouts who belonged or sympathised with the Young Communist League in Britain during the early 1950s. A focus on the rationale and repercussions of the organisation's approach and attitudes towards ‘Red Scouts’ found within their ‘ranks’ extends our understanding of youth movements and their often complex and conflicting ideological foundations. In particular, the post-World …
Complex geographies of play provision dis/investment across the UK
This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in International Journal of Play on 23 Dec 2015, available online: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/21594937.2015.1106042
Enlivening evidence-based policy through embodiment and emotions
Evidence-based policy and practice tends to operate on a belief that knowledge is obtained through objective observation and reasoning, leading to ‘rational decision-making’. But the work of producing such knowledge is typically more ‘messy’, more iterative and more non-linear; features of the knowledge production process only made more pronounced by imperatives such as co-production. Just over a decade ago Smith and Anderson traced out a positio…
Uneven geographies of youth volunteering in Uganda
This paper develops a multi-scalar geography of youth volunteering in Uganda. A growing body of research has explored the geographies of volunteering in the global North and international volunteering and development. However, despite the mainstreaming of volunteers as development actors, less attention has been paid to the unique local and national geographies of volunteering in global South settings. This paper explores how and why different id…
Youth organizations and the reproduction of nationalism in Britain
This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Social and Cultural Geography on 23 Feb 2016 available online: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14649365.2016.1139166
Geographies for play in austere times
This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in International Journal of Play on 23 Dec 2015, available online: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/21594937.2015.1106051
Children and Young People's Experiences and Understandings of Gambling-Style Systems in Digital Games
Developing current geographical debates on children's digital geographies and popular culture, this article examines children and young people's experiences and understandings of gambling-style systems in digital games. Chance-based mechanisms such as loot boxes are a growing feature of the global gaming industry. This article examines the space between gaming and gambling and provides new perspectives to this emerging field, drawing on empirical…
Critical Geographies of Childhood and Youth
Social Capital, Social Inclusion and Changing School Contexts
This paper synthesises a collaborative review of social capital theory, with particular regard for its relevance to the changing educational landscape within Scotland. The review considers the common and distinctive elements of social capital, developed by the founding fathers--Putnam, Bourdieu and Coleman--and explores how these might help to understand the changing contexts and pursue opportunities for growth
Social Capital, Social Inclusion and Changing School Contexts
This paper synthesises a collaborative review of social capital theory, with particular regard for its relevance to the changing educational landscape within Scotland. The review considers the common and distinctive elements of social capital, developed by the founding fathers--Putnam, Bourdieu and Coleman--and explores how these might help to understand the changing contexts and pursue opportunities for growth
Citizenship and faith
One of the accusations levelled at Muslims in the West is a lack of engagement with established institutions and organisations in civil society. As this book seeks to ask what Muslims have to be hopeful about today, and how others may share this hope, we need to uncover the hidden and marginalised stories of where Muslims are not only participating in these spaces, but can also act as the driving force for new growth within organisations. This ch…
Be Prepared
This article examines the exposure, and in some cases dismissal, of Boy Scouts who belonged or sympathised with the Young Communist League in Britain during the early 1950s. A focus on the rationale and repercussions of the organisation's approach and attitudes towards ‘Red Scouts’ found within their ‘ranks’ extends our understanding of youth movements and their often complex and conflicting ideological foundations. In particular, the post-World …
Desire, disorder and design
The spiv and the architect: unruly life in postwar London, Richard Hornsey, University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis and London, 2010, 328 pp., ISBN 9780816653157, US$24.95 (pbk)
Scouting for girls? Gender and the Scout Movement in Britain
This article brings a feminist geopolitics to bear upon an analysis of the Boy Scout Movement in Britain in order to illustrate how an emphasis upon seemingly banal, embodied practices such as dressing, writing and crafting can provide a counter-view to prevailing notions of the elite, organisational ‘scripting’ of individualised, geopolitical identities. Here, these practices undertaken by girls are understood not as subversive, or even transgre…
Manhood Factories
Young ghosts
Geographers researching children and young people have often been at the forefront of disciplinary\ndebates in geography surrounding methodological practice and ethical considerations\n(Matthews et al. 1998, Valentine 1999, Pain 2004, Hemming 2008, Hopkins and Bell 2008,\nvan Blerk and Barker 2008). In this short paper, I want to focus on a less-popular research\nmethod used by children’s geographers – archival methods (cf. Gagen 2000, 2001) – an…
Being observant and observed
An instruction in good citizenship’
This paper examines informal citizenship training for youth and the historical geographies of education over time through analysing the Scout Movement in Britain and its activities in the first half of the twentieth century. In doing so, it highlights the complexity of youth citizenship and the significance of non‐school spaces in civil society to our understandings of young people’s positioning as citizen‐subjects. Drawing on archival research, …
Duty to God/my Dharma/Allah/Waheguru
This article was published in the journal, Social and Cultural Geography [© Taylor & Francis] and the definitive version is available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14649365.2012.698749
Being Boys
Surprise! Public historical geographies, user engagement and voluntarism
This paper aims to expand understandings of ‘public geographies’, not usually associated with historical geography, through considering voluntarism. It seeks to bring together debates on research practice, positionality and the ‘surprise’ instances of user engagement. To do so, it draws on two experiences and opportunities that emerged during my doctoral research in Wales on the cultural‐historical geographies of scouting in Britain: first, curat…
Enlivening evidence-based policy through embodiment and emotions
Evidence-based policy and practice tends to operate on a belief that knowledge is obtained through objective observation and reasoning, leading to ‘rational decision-making’. But the work of producing such knowledge is typically more ‘messy’, more iterative and more non-linear; features of the knowledge production process only made more pronounced by imperatives such as co-production. Just over a decade ago Smith and Anderson traced out a positio…
Cultural-Historical Geographies of the Archive
This article reviews the increasingly diverse ways in which geographers are engaging with archives. Although traditionally associated with historical geography, cultural-historical geographers have recently 'animated' the archive and its collections of fragments, objects and ghosts. Through this article, I provide an overview of the central characteristics of work in this field, as well as considering the discipline's wider relationship with arch…
Critical Geographies of Childhood and Youth
Youth on Streets and Bob-a-Job Week
After World War Two, youth in Britain was constructed as unruly, troublesome, and deviant, particularly in public urban space and streets. However, not all children and young people were discouraged from entering these environments or engaging with the general public. Drawing from literature published by the Boy Scout Association and a case study of Bob-a-Job Week in Britain launched in 1949, I examine the institutional geographies of responsibil…
Youth work and faith
This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Children's Geographies on 26 Dec 2015, available online: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14733285.2015.1119529
Geographies of youth work, volunteering and employment
This paper brings together current geographical debates on volunteering and employment through a unique focus on post‐war youth work. I use the example of the Jewish Lads' Brigade and Club in Manchester, UK to make a series of wider arguments about the emotional labour of paid/unpaid work, faith‐based identities and the spatialities of informal education. Through conceptualising youth work as a series of localised and inherently spatial practices…
Geographies for play in austere times
This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in International Journal of Play on 23 Dec 2015, available online: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/21594937.2015.1106051
Divergent geographies of policy and practice? Voluntarism and devolution in England, Scotland and Wales
Across Great Britain, engagement with civil society is an increasingly central component of public policy and governance rhetoric. However, attention has tended to focus on policy developments emanating from Westminster that relate to England, rather than the policy and governance 'spaces' emerging in the devolved administrations, such as Scotland and Wales. It has also tended to focus on the organisations through which voluntary participation ta…
Complex geographies of play provision dis/investment across the UK
This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in International Journal of Play on 23 Dec 2015, available online: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/21594937.2015.1106042
Jives, jeans and Jewishness? Moral geographies, atmospheres and the politics of mixing at the Jewish Lads' Brigade & Club 1954-1969
This paper examines a series of anxieties about mixing at the Jewish Lads' Brigade and Club (JLB & C) in Manchester, UK during the 1950s and 1960s, primarily focused on inter-faith activities, relationships and marriages. This paper explores how a powerful moral geography of gender and religion came to be shaped, regulated and negotiated at this youth work space. The concerns expressed by some adults over teenage encounters in the post-war city w…
Youth organizations and the reproduction of nationalism in Britain
This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Social and Cultural Geography on 23 Feb 2016 available online: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14649365.2016.1139166
Cultural geographies of education
This is the guest editorial published in the journal, Cultural Geographies http://dx.doi.org/ 10.1177/1474474015612717
Geographies of education, volunteering and the lifecourse
This article extends the current scholarly focus within the geographies of education and the geographies of children, youth and families through an original examination of the Woodcraft Folk - a British youth organization founded in 1925 that aimed to create a world built on equality, friendship and peace. This article illustrates how voluntary uniformed youth organizations had a much wider spatial remit and more complex institutional geographies…
Sociology (41 obras) · Political science (30 obras) · Law (23 obras) · Gender Studies (22 obras) · Politics (21 obras) · Gender Studies (19 obras) · Law (18 obras) · Tourism, Volunteerism, and Development (11 obras) · Children's Rights and Participation (9 obras) · Citizenship (9 obras)