The geography of children

James (1990) asks geographers to incorporate a child and geography perspective into their research (282). She argues that ' for too long, children have been hidden from geography' (278). Sibley (1991) has supported her argument and suggested that geographers could usefully adopt approaches from other fields of social research. James has pinpointed three key issues for the geography of children: socio-spatial relationships, spatial behaviour and environmental cognition, while Sibley has focused on children as agents' anarchists and subversives ' who make their own geographies. This comment supports the contention that the geography of children is under-developed and disparate. However, some aspects of the geography of children, including the three issues suggested by James, have already been addressed and are more readily available in the geographical literature than James and Sibley have indicated