This paper considers the importance of walking for many children and young people's everyday lives, experiences friendships. Drawing upon research with 175 9- to 16-year-olds living in new urban developments south-east England, we highlight key characteristics (daily, taken-for-granted, ostensibly aimless) practices, which were constitutive friendships, communities geographies. These practices characteristically bounded, yet intense circuitous. They vivid, vital, loved, playful, social also...

Amid research into the mounting social and environmental threats presented by climate change, young people’s everyday experiences knowledges are often overlooked, despite being generation that will be most affected change. We present a ‘looping’ methodology, developed through collaborative work between two distinct but complementary projects wherein people in Paraíba do Sul watershed, São Paulo state, Brazil shared their perspectives on (respectively) climate-related disasters...

This paper reflects upon emotional moments in research with children and young people. In particular, we seek to contribute the now-extensive literature on emotions social scientific practice by: (i) attempting acknowledge often-overlooked experienced by people whilst participating research; (ii) highlighting complex, multiperspectival nature of research. We suggest that these complexities can, simultaneously be problematic an opportunity celebrate achievement doing together.

This paper critically analyses pervasive contemporary discourses that call for children and young people to be “reconnected” with nature natural resources. Simultaneously, it reflects on emerging forms of nexus thinking policy seek identify govern connections between diverse sectors, especially water, energy food. Both these fields scholarship are concerned connections, different kinds, at spatial scales. Based a large‐scale, mixed‐method research project in São Paulo State, Brazil, this...

This special issue draws together diverse new research papers about children and young people's lives, practices knowledges relating to sustainability environmental or ecological issues. Th...

This paper considers the everyday geographies of children living in new largescale urban developments which multiple forms 'sustainable' architecture are characteristic features.We argue that children's experiences with materialities, politics, and technologies sustainability have too often been marginalised much chief research on childhood, youth, sustainability.Drawing qualitative 8-16-year-olds materialities ecohousing, drainage, wind turbines, photovoltaic panelling, we explore how...

This paper examines experiences of young people (9–16) who live in new communities that are under construction. In the context large-scale housing developments, built England after 2000, it analyses various ways which engage with life 'on a building site'. From ethnographic research three unfinished communities, several inter-linked themes became apparent: how engaged sites both aesthetic and material registers; could, paradoxically, constitute places for safer play significant risk; such...

Sustainable communities are new sites of exploration; spaces which have been planned and designed to overcome a multitude social, economic environmental problems present in the UK urban landscape. Given their credentials, this offers backdrop for investigating children young people's knowledge regarding environment sustainability. Data presented from research with children, people families living one these communities. The paper focuses on local primary school homes equipped various...

Purpose – This paper aims to explore corporate social responsibility (CSR) within the Indian context, focusing on banking sector. is of particular importance at this time given financial industry's pivotal role in driving forward India's growth; contributes literature operationalisation CSR one world's fastest growing economies. Design/methodology/approach The presents empirical, on-the-ground qualitative evidence from finance sector with regard operations and motivations. Data are based...

Whilst interdisciplinarity has been an integral part of childhood studies, it is less common for social scientists and natural to collaborate in this space – especially with scholars like environmental (nano)scientists. This paper draws on vignettes from a project about children plastics, which combined range qualitative, artistic biosampling methods. Focusing these methodological intersections, the critically reflects ethical issues, including institutional approval, health risk...

Engaging contemporary forms of nexus-thinking with interdisciplinary food scholarship and childhood youth studies, this paper explores the social, cultural political implications young people's entangled connections – beyond food. The draws on a large-scale research project investigating Brazilians' relationships understandings water-energy-food nexus. Based upon ethnographic, mixed-methods research, we attend to everyday, material experiences water-energy-food, call for transfigured...

In this paper we frame children as geological agents, very much part of epoch and biospherical processes, enfolded in Earth system changes. We draw on the experiences Indian childhoods a context where land, water, animals, children's bodies forests are being shaped by politics corporate city building. analyse how young people contribute to changes consider everyday, multispecies consequences living with anthropogenic urbanism. The shows entangled human non-human forces; they agents which...

Abstract Over the past decade, financial institutions have become increasingly conscious of environmental and social implications their lending decisions. This is due to widespread awareness within mainstream society rise sophisticated nongovernmental organisations. Geography provides an insight into a range issues related project finance, particularly with regard human‐environmental relationships, spatial differentiation modes governance. The ‘Equator Principles’ are examined focusing on...

The aim of this paper is to complicate predominantly western, dominant discourses childhood-nature relations. Drawing on an approach inspired by common-world theorisations, we attend the experiences children and their families living, learning, working playing in goings-on Indian urban transformation. Based in-depth, ethnographic research, build literature which highlights messy world child-nature relations extend current theorisations. We pay attention socio-spatial negotiations, spiritual...

This paper addresses the multiple politics of being young in new Sustainable Communities UK, places which were designed and built to foster active participation inclusiveness. It is this context that we uncover a series rules regulations inhibit people's their communities. However, also draw attention everyday broader deeper than formal structures participation. Through in-depth ethnographic research get closer understanding what an looks feels like from person's perspective. Sounds, sights...

This paper focuses on everyday watery relations; children and young people's fluid, messy, affective encounters with the rainy season in India. We attend to rhythms, depths, capacities flows of water argue that a more nuanced understanding entanglements is needed context fluid inequality. Through in-depth, ethnographic research people, we offer new ways thinking about relations inequality attending material-social-spatial–temporal complexities living monsoon.

In the context of a globalised interdisciplinary moment, where boundary-crossing research collaborations are valorised, this paper considers encounters between multidisciplinary researchers. Presenting empirics and reflections from an international project social scientists engineers sought to collaborate, communicate address complex challenges associated with sustainable urban development, we question series assumptions about research. Importantly, pause consider practical implications...

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 analyses data co-produced 11–15 year-olds through interviews, app-based experimental/arts-led workshops. It moves beyond scholarship in health environmental sciences, education research, to outline far richer range ways conceptualise based everyday, embodied emotive interactions

This paper advances multidisciplinary research, policy, education and activisms which cohere around the concept of ‘water–energy–food (W–E–F) nexus’ via an evidence-led critique normative forms nexus-thinking draws upon research with 3705 diverse young people's (aged 10–24 years) W–E–F experiences in SE Brazil. We consider how neat, cool, ostensibly authoritative buzzword style is radically unsettled – sometimes conceptually-critically overwhelmed encounters social scientific data practice....

The water–energy–food nexus approach to the sustainable management of resources emphasizes chains interdependence and contingencies their elements. As these concepts are increasingly relevant for research policy, educational institutions seek add materials about them into curricula. This article aimed identify issues points education sustainability in undergraduate higher education, based on a combined analysis results regarding perceptions, experiences participation undergraduates São...