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Introduction to Play and Recreation, Health and Wellbeing in Geographies of Children and Young People

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Play and Recreation, Health and Wellbeing

Part of the book series: Geographies of Children and Young People ((GCYP,volume 9))

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The introduction chapter provides an orientation and companion piece to the wonderfully rich array of chapters collected in the volume on Play and Recreation, Health and Wellbeing. It draws attention to three themes discussed by chapters in the section on play and recreation: a critical theorization of play and recreation, spaces designed or designated for play and recreation, and the everyday playful and recreational practices and mobilities of children and young people. In relation to the section on health and wellbeing, the following three themes are outlined: children as knowledgeable actors in the context of health and wellbeing, challenging dominant policy and media representations of children and young people’s health and wellbeing, and the everyday and institutional spaces of children’s health and wellbeing. The chapter also draws out some of the key contributions of children’s geographies to understandings of play and recreation, health and wellbeing in relation to intergenerational approaches and agency, and introduces the range of theoretical influences and geographical contexts covered by the chapters in this volume.

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  1. Department of Geography and Planning, University of Liverpool, L69 7ZT, Liverpool, UK

    Bethan Evans

  2. Centre for Children and Youth, University of Northampton, Boughton Green Road, Northampton, NN2 7AL, UK

    John Horton

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    John Horton

  3. Department of Geography, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore

    Tracey Skelton

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Evans, B., Horton, J. (2016). Introduction to Play and Recreation, Health and Wellbeing in Geographies of Children and Young People. In: Evans, B., Horton, J., Skelton, T. (eds) Play and Recreation, Health and Wellbeing. Geographies of Children and Young People, vol 9. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-4585-96-5_39-1

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