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This edited collection explores what mobility meant, and means, in the specific contexts of socialist and post-socialist Soviet and East European societies. Under the socialist regimes, mobility was at the heart of everyday interactions with the state, from controls on travel and communications mobilities to daily experiences of transport usage and the immobility of queuing for goods at times of shortages. These mobilities have been reshaped under post-socialist regimes. While the collapse of socialism heralded a liberalization of international migration and increased automobility, new experiences of poverty, unemployment, and in the case of some states, war, plus the loss of subsidized travel greatly reduced fields of mobility. Bringing together contributors from the dynamic fields of Mobilities and Socialist/Post-Socialist Studies this book uses the focus on socialist and post-socialist mobilities to investigate fundamental intersections of power, control, resistance and inequality.

Changing circumstances in Western and global societies have introduced new constraints and opportunities for men and the formation of male identities. Meanwhile, the emerging diversity of 'atypical' identities ('atypical' when compared with traditional conceptions of middle-class, white, heterosexual men) poses new challenges for the production and use of spaces.Spaces of Masculinities provides a comprehensive introduction to the innovative and diverse research on spaces of masculinity. Drawing on a variety of geographical research projects, the central concern of the book is to highlight the

More than half of the global and around 80 per cent of the Western population grow up in cities. This text provides a vivid picture of children and youth in the city, how they make sense of it and how they appropriate it through their social actions.

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- List of boxes -- List of contributors -- 1. Reflecting research ethics in human geography: A constant need -- PART I: Ethics in human geographical research -- 2. Caring about research ethics and integrity in human geography -- 3. Research ethics in human and physical geography: Ethical literacy, the ethics of intervention, and the limits of self-regulation -- 4. Childhood is a foreign country? Ethics in socio-spatial childhood research as a question of 'how' and 'what' -- 5. Ethical challenges arising from the vulnerability of refugees and asylum seekers within the research process -- 6. Research ethics and inequalities of knowledge production in Eastern Europe and Eurasia -- 7. Sensitive topics in human geography: Insights from research on cigarette smugglers and diamond dealers -- 8. Volunteer-practitioner research, relationships and friendship-liness: Re-enacting geographies of care -- PART II: Research ethics in the wider academic context -- 9. Illegal ethnographies: Research ethics beyond the law -- 10. Researcher trauma: Considering the ethics, impacts and outcomes of research on researchers -- 11. Practical ethics approaches for engaging ethical issues in research geography -- 12. Facing moral dilemmas as a method: Teaching ethical research principles to geography students in higher education -- 13. Doing geography in classrooms: The ethical dimension of teaching and learning -- 14. Ethics of reflection: A directional perspective -- Index.

Geographies of children and young people is a rapidly emerging sub-discipline within human geography. There is now a critical mass of established academic work, key names within academia, growing numbers of graduate students and expanding numbers of university level taught courses. There are also professional training programmes at national scales and in international contexts that work specifically with children and young people. In addition to a productive journal of Children's Geographies, there's a range of monographs, textbooks and edited collections focusing on children and young people published by all the major academic presses then there is a substantive body of work on younger people within human geography and active authors and researchers working within international contexts to warrant a specific Major Reference Work on children's and young people's geographies. The volumes and sections are structured by themes, which then reflect the broader geographical locations of the research

While in the past two decades a rich literature has emerged about the politics of public space, many of these theoretical works and empirical studies consider public space interactions and behaviors against the backdrop of deliberative or representative politics. In this special issue, to which this article is the preface, we offer some reflections on how the everyday and the micro-level can be sites of political expression, leading inevitably to a critical discussion of the central assumptions regarding private/public space and its generational, gendered, classed, and "culturalized" construction. This analysis takes place with three theoretical axes in the background: Katz's minor theory, anarchist theory on prefigurative politics, and Foucault, de Certeau, and Lefebvre's work on power, knowledge, and place.