AdVocation Nation - Dr. Stuart Aitken, Geographer & Child Rights Advocate

Stuart C. Aitken is June Burnett Chair and Distinguished Professor of Geography at San Diego State University. He is the founding director of the research center Youth, Environment, Society and Space (YESS). Stuart’s research interests include critical social theory, qualitative methods, film, children, families and communities. He has published 14 books and over 200 articles in academic journals as well as in various edited book collections and encyclopedias. Stuart is past co-editor of The Professional Geographer and Children’s Geographies. He has worked with the United Nations on child rights, labor and migration issues. Stuart’s research on children and youth encompasses work in Norway, Brazil, China, Chile, Ethiopia, Slovenia and Romania, as well as the USA, Canada and Scotland. He is active in the American Association of Geographers, the Association of Pacific Coast Geographers and the Institute of British Geographers. Stuart has held honorary professorships at Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada and the University of Wales, Aberystwth. He is an elected member of the Royal Norwegian Society for Science and Letters learned society.

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