‘Children's Geographies’ could do more. In this paper we present a succession of key ideas currently arising in and of new and emergent theoretical, philosophical and conceptual work in the Social Sciences. We invite reflection upon each of these ideas in turn, with a mind, specifically, to ‘Children's Geographies’. In so doing, we make two broad claims. First, that greater engagement with some or all of these ideas might prove useful, enabling, thought-provoking, profound, constructive, challenging, telling, or interesting to ‘Children's Geographers’. Second, that—particularly given the nature of its extant concerns and efforts— ‘Children's Geographies’ could do much more to speak back to (these) wider contemporary lines of thought.

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Reviews : Groans From a Bookshelf New books in Material Culture and Consumption

What else? some more ways of thinking and doing ‘Children's Geographies’

By addressing the issue of food and eating in Britain today this collection considers the ways in which food habits are changing and shows how social and personal identities and perceptions of health risk influence people's food choices The articles explore, among other issues: * the family meal * wedding cakes * nostalgia and the invention of tradition * the rise of vegetarianism * the recent BSE crisis * the `creolization' of British food eating out * creation of individual identity through lifestyle The contributors include Hanna Bradby, Simon Charsley, Allison James, Anne Keane, Lydia Martens and Alan Warde

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What else? some more ways of thinking and doing ‘Children's Geographies’

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Food, Health and Identity