Journal Articles

Esson, J, Mills, S, Blazek, M, Pickerill, J, Tebet, G, Kraftl, P (2023) After childhood: re-thinking environment, materiality and media in children’s lives, Peter Kraftl, £38.99 (paperback), £130 (hardcover), £35.09 (ebook). ISBN: 9781032237602, Routledge, London (2020), p. 250 [Review forum], Political Geography, 102995, ISSN: 0962-6298. DOI: 10.1016/j.polgeo.2023.102995.

Mills, S, Ash, J, Gordon, R (2023) Children and young people's experiences and understandings of gambling-style systems in digital games: loot boxes, popular culture, and changing childhoods, Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 114(1), pp.200-217, ISSN: 2469-4452. DOI: 10.1080/24694452.2023.2248293.

Smith, MB, Mills, S, Okech, M, Fadel, B (2022) Uneven geographies of youth volunteering in Uganda: Multi-scalar discourses and practices, Geoforum, 134, pp.30-39, ISSN: 0016-7185. DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2022.05.006.

Ash, J, Gordon, R, Mills, S (2022) Geographies of the event? Rethinking time and power through digital interfaces, cultural geographies, 30(1), pp.3-18, ISSN: 1474-4740. DOI: 10.1177/14744740221086262.

Mills, S and Waite, C (2022) The state and voluntary sector in austere times: 10 years of National Citizen Service, Geography, 107(1), pp.38-45, ISSN: 0016-7487. DOI: 10.1080/00167487.2022.2019495.

Dunne, JLH and Mills, S (2019) Educational landscapes: Nature, place and moral geographies, Geographical Journal, 185(3), pp.254-257, ISSN: 0016-7398. DOI: 10.1111/geoj.12305.

Holloway, S, Holt, L, Mills, S (2018) Questions of agency: capacity, subjectivity, spatiality and temporality, Progress in Human Geography, 43(3), pp.458-477, ISSN: 1477-0288.

Smith, D and Mills, S (2018) The 'youth-fullness' of youth geographies: 'coming of age'?, Children's Geographies, ISSN: 1473-3285. DOI: 10.1080/14733285.2018.1539701.

Mills, S and Waite, C (2017) From big society to shared society? Geographies of social cohesion and encounter in the UK’s national citizen service, Geografiska Annaler: Series B, Human Geography, 100(2), pp.131-148, ISSN: 0435-3684. DOI: 10.1080/04353684.2017.1392229.

Mills, S, Clark, N, Fluri, JL, Tyner, J, Dixon, DP (2017) Book review: Feminist Geopolitics: Material States, by Deborah P. Dixon, AAG Review of Books, ISSN: 2325-548X. DOI: 10.1080/2325548X.2017.1366848.

Mills, S (2017) Children, Childhood and Youth in the British World, JOURNAL OF HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY, 56, pp.154-154, ISSN: 0305-7488. DOI: 10.1016/j.jhg.2016.05.011.

Mills, S and Waite, C (2017) Brands of youth citizenship and the politics of scale: National Citizen Service in the United Kingdom, Political Geography, ISSN: 0962-6298. DOI: 10.1016/j.polgeo.2016.11.007.

Mills, S (2017) Voice: Sonic geographies of childhood, Children's Geographies: advancing interdisciplinary understanding of younger people's lives, ISSN: 1473-3285. DOI: 10.1080/14733285.2017.1287879.

Jones, R, Merriman, P, Mills, S (2016) Youth organisations and the reproduction of nationalism in Britain: the role of Urdd Gobaith Cymru, Social and Cultural Geography, ISSN: 1470-1197. DOI: 10.1080/14649365.2016.1139166.

Mills, S and Kraftl, P (2016) Cultural geographies of education, Cultural Geographies, 23(1), pp.19-27, ISSN: 1477-0881. DOI: 10.1177/1474474015612717.

Mills, S (2016) Jives, jeans and Jewishness? Moral geographies, atmospheres and the politics of mixing at the Jewish Lads’ Brigade & Club 1954–1969, Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, ISSN: 0263-7758. DOI: 10.1177/0263775816644257.

Woolvin, M, Mills, S, Hardill, I, Rutherford, A (2015) Divergent geographies of policy and practice? Voluntarism and devolution in England, Scotland and Wales, The Geographical Journal, 181(1), pp.38-46, ISSN: 0016-7398. DOI: 10.1111/geoj.12069.

Mills, S (2015) Geographies of youth work, volunteering and employment: the Jewish Lads' Brigade and Club in post-war Manchester, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, ISSN: 0020-2754. DOI: 10.1111/tran.12092.

McKendrick, JH, Kraftl, P, Mills, S, Gregorius, S, Sykes, G (2015) Complex geographies of play provision dis/investment across the UK, International Journal of Play, ISSN: 2159-4937. DOI: 10.1080/21594937.2015.1106042.

McKendrick, JH, Kraftl, P, Mills, S, Gregorius, S, Sykes, G (2015) Geographies for play in austere times, International Journal of Play, ISSN: 2159-4937. DOI: 10.1080/21594937.2015.1106051.

Mills, S (2014) Geographies of education, volunteering and the lifecourse: the Woodcraft Folk in Britain (1925-1975), cultural geographies, 23(1), pp.103-119, ISSN: 1474-4740. DOI: 10.1177/1474474014536855.

Mills, S (2014) Youth on streets and Bob-a-Job Week: Urban geographies of masculinity, risk, and home in postwar Britain, Environment and Planning A, 46(1), pp.112-128, ISSN: 0308-518X. DOI: 10.1068/a45400.

Rogers, A, Bear, C, Hunt, M, Mills, S, Sandover, R (2014) Intervention: The impact agenda and human geography in UK higher education, ACME, 13(1), pp.1-9.

Hardill, I and Mills, S (2013) Enlivening evidence-based policy through embodiment and emotions, Contemporary Social Science, 8(3), pp.321-332, ISSN: 2158-2041. DOI: 10.1080/21582041.2013.770909.

Mills, S (2013) Cultural-historical geographies of the archive: Fragments, objects and ghosts, Geography Compass, 7(10), pp.701-713, DOI: 10.1111/gec3.12071.

Mills, S (2013) Surprise! Public historical geographies, user engagement and voluntarism, Area, 45(1), pp.16-22, ISSN: 0004-0894. DOI: 10.1111/area.12001.

Mills, S (2013) An instruction in good citizenship': scouting and the historical geographies of citizenship education, TRANSACTIONS OF THE INSTITUTE OF BRITISH GEOGRAPHERS, 38(1), pp.120-134, ISSN: 0020-2754. DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-5661.2012.00500.x.

Robinson, J and Mills, S (2012) Being observant and observed: embodied citizenship training in the Home Guard and the Boy Scout Movement, 1907-1945, JOURNAL OF HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY, 38(4), pp.412-423, ISSN: 0305-7488. DOI: 10.1016/j.jhg.2012.03.003.

Mills, S (2012) Duty to God/my Dharma/Allah/Waheguru: Diverse youthful religiosities and the politics and performance of informal worship, Social and Cultural Geography, 13(5), pp.481-499, ISSN: 1464-9365. DOI: 10.1080/14649365.2012.698749.

Mills, S (2012) Young ghosts: Ethical and methodological issues of historical research in children's geographies, Children's Geographies, 10(3), pp.357-363, ISSN: 1473-3285. DOI: 10.1080/14733285.2012.693838.

Mills, S (2011) Be Prepared: Communism and the Politics of Scouting in 1950s Britain, Contemporary British History, 25(3), pp.429-450, DOI: 10.1080/13619462.2011.597552.

Mills, S (2011) Scouting for Girls? Gender and the Scout Movement in Britain, Gender, Place and Culture: a journal of feminist geography, 18(4), pp.537-556, DOI: 10.1080/0966369X.2011.583342.

Books

Mills, S (2021) Mapping the Moral Geographies of Education: Character, Citizenship and Values, London: Routledge.

P, KK and Sarah, M (ed) (2016) Politics, Citizenship & Rights, Springer Science+Business Media, ISBN: 9789814585569.

Sarah, M and Peter, K (ed) (2014) Informal Education, Childhood and Youth: Geographies, Histories, Practices, Palgrave Macmillan / selection and editorial matter © Sarah Mills and Peter Kraftl. Individual chapters © Respective author, ISBN: 9781137027726.

Chapters

Mills, S (2021) Introduction [Mapping the Moral Geographies of Education: Character, Citizenship and Values]. In Mapping the Moral Geographies of Education: Character, Citizenship and Values, Routledge, pp.1-7, ISBN: 9781138300828. DOI: 10.4324/9780203733066.

Crawford, L and Mills, S (2020) Historical research: Gender, politics and ethics. In Silva, ADPHLJEOJM (ed) Routledge Handbook of Gender and Feminist Geographies, Routledge, pp.490-500, ISBN: 9781138057685.

Crawford, L and Mills, S (2020) Historical research: Gender, politics and ethics. In Routledge Handbook of Gender and Feminist Geographies, pp.490-500, ISBN: 9781138057685.

Hardill, I and Mills, S (2016) Enlivening evidence-based policy through embodiment and emotions. In Knowledge Mobilisation and the Social Sciences: Research Impact and Engagement, pp.155-166, ISBN: 9781138806757.

Kallio, KP and Mills, S (2016) Editorial: geographies of children and young people's politics, citizenship and rights. In Politics, Citizenship & Rights, Springer Science+Business Media, pp.0-0, ISBN: 9789814585569.

Mills, S (2016) Archival fieldwork and children’s geographies. In Methodological Approaches, © Springer, pp.0-0, ISBN: 9789814585897.

Mills, S and Duckett, J (2016) Representing, reproducing and re-configuring the nation: geographies of youth citizenship and devolution. In Politics, Citizenship and Rights, Vol. 7 of Skelton, T. (ed.) Major Reference Work on Geographies of Children and Young People, © Springer, pp.0-0, ISBN: 9789814585569.

Mills, S (2014) 'A powerful educational instrument': The woodcraft folk and indoor/outdoor 'nature', 1925-75. In Informal Education, Childhood and Youth: Geographies, Histories, Practices, pp.65-78, ISBN: 9781137027726. DOI: 10.1057/9781137027733.

Mills, S (2014) “A Powerful Educational Instrument": the Woodcraft Folk, indoor/outdoor nature 1925-1975. In Informal Education, Childhood and Youth: Geographies, Histories, Practices, Palgrave Macmillan / © The Author reproduced with permission of Palgrave Macmillan, pp.65-78, ISBN: 9781137027726.

Mills, S and Kraftl, P (2014) Introduction: geographies, histories and practices of informal education. In Informal Education, Childhood and Youth: Geographies, Histories, Practices, Palgrave Macmillan / © The Authors reproduced with permission of Palgrave Macmillan, pp.1-18, ISBN: 9781137027726.

Mills, S (2009) Citizenship and Faith: Muslim Scout Groups. In Muslim Spaces of Hope: Geographies of Possibility in Britain and the West, pp.85-103.

Mills, S (2009) Youth Citizenship and Religious Difference: Muslim Scouting in the United Kingdom. In Proctor, T and Block, N (ed) Scouting Frontiers: Global Youth and the Scout Movement’s First Century, pp.190-206.

Fadel, B, Smith, MB, Ahimbisibwe, F, Boyle, O, Freimane, I, Kanyandago, P, Mills, S, Okech, M, O'Loghlen, A, Rogerson, D, Sahasranaman, A, Tukundane, C, Turyamureeba, R (Accepted for publication) Volunteering by displaced youth in Uganda: Livelihoods, skills, employability and inequalities. In Civic Engagement & Voluntary Services - Handbook for Science and Practice, Nomos-Verlagsgesellschaft.

Reports

James, A, Gordon, R, Mills, S (2022) Between gaming and gambling: Children, young people, and paid reward systems in digital games.

Mills, S and Waite, C (2017) National Citizen Service: A Geographical Approach,ISBN: 9781527212794.

Other

Jones, R, Cornelissen, S, Hiemstra, N, Johnson, C, Mills, S, Yamazaki, T, Pallister-Wilkins, P (2020) Editorial. DOI: 10.1080/14650045.2020.1688347.

Mills, S (2016) Youth work and faith: debates, delights and dilemmas. DOI: 10.1080/14733285.2015.1119529.

Mills, S (2016) Book review: Shirleene Robinson and Simon Sleight (Eds), Children, Childhood and Youth in the British World. Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2016, xiii + 328 pages, £63 hardcover, Book review: Shirleene Robinson and Simon Sleight (Eds), Children, Childhood and Youth in the British World. Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2016, xiii + 328 pages, £63 hardcover. DOI: 10.1016/j.jhg.2016.05.011.

Mills, S (2013) Critical Geographies of Childhood and Youth: Contemporary Policy and Practice. DOI: 10.1080/14649365.2013.797189.