Global Childhoods: Globalization, Development and Young People

Stuart Aitken is Professor of Geography at San Diego State University. His past books on children and families include Geographies of Young People: The Moral Contested Spaces of Identity (2001), Family Fantasies and Community Space (1998) and Putting Children in Their Place (1994). He is past editor of The Professional Geographer and is a current commissioning editor of Children's Geographies. He has also published a number of books and articles on films, philosophies and qualitative methods.,
Ragnhild Lund is Professor of Geography/Development Studies at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim. Her past works include various articles on qualitative methodology, gender and development, development induced displacement, post-tsunami recovery and organisational learning of NGOs. Her past books on development include Gender and Place (1993), Renegotiating local values (1994). In the Maze of Displacement (2003). She has also published a recent article on orphanhood and HIV/AIDS. She is chief editor of Gender, Technology and Development (Sage) and she has been guest editor of FORUM of Development research and the Norwegian Journal of Geography.,
Anne Trine Kjørholt is Director and Associate Professor at Norwegian Centre for Child Research, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim. Her recent publications include: Children as New Citizens: In the best interest of the child? (2007) Childhood as a Social and Symbolic Space. Discourses on Children as social participants in society (2004), Imagined Communities. The Local Community as a Place for ‘Children's Culture’ and Social Participation in Norway (2004), Co-editor: Social actors or victims of exploitation? Working children in the cash economy of Ethiopia's South (2008), Flexible Places for Flexible Children? Discourses on new kindergarten architecture (2007), Beyond Listening. Children's Perspectives in Early Childhood Services (2005), Children, food consumption and culture in the Nordic countries (2005), Childhood and generation in Norway — Money, time and space (2004). She is editor of the Nordic journal ‘Barn’ (peer-reviewed) and Member of the Editorial Board in the journal ‘Childhoods Today’ and the journal Educational Research, both peer-reviewed.