Victoria Derr, Ph.D., is Associate Professor of Environmental Studies at California State University Monterey Bay, where her teaching and research focus on the intersections between sustainable communities, place-based environmental education, and social justice, particularly in under-represented communities.Yolanda Corona holds a Ph.D. in Ethnohistory and is a professor in the Department of Education and Communication at the Autonomous University of Mexico-Xochimilco. Her recent research and teaching include topics of children’s participation and children’s relationship with nature. She provides educational programs about children´s rights to teachers and cultural promoters.

• IntroductionPerspectives on Place1. Children’s Sense of Place in Transnational Contexts: La Querencia Explored2. Love and Care for the Land among Children of a Traditional Indigenous Community3. The Notion of Neighborhood: Children’s Perspectives on City and Sense of Place in Mexico City 4. The Relationship between Outdoor Nature and Latinx Children’s Sense of Place5. Cultural Hybridities in the Multiethnic Enclave: Generational Perspectives on Neighborhood Identity in Wilshire Center, Los Angeles Homeland, Belonging, and Transnational Identity6. Belonging, Place, and Homeland Nostalgia7. From the Cuchumatanes to the Plain of Flowers: Imagined Nature and Vivid Nature among Indigenous Children in Kuchumatán, Quintana Roo and Xochistlahuaca, Guerrero, Mexico8. In Transit: The Territory from a Child Migrant Experience9. Across Transited Landscapes: Memories and Experiences of Terruño from Young Mexican Immigrants in the United States and Mexico10. Ways of Being and Belonging: Latina Reflections on Development of Environmental IdentitiesLearning and Expressing Care 11. Rising Voices: Participatory and Anticolonial Frames for Realizing Young People’s Rights12. In Defense of Mother Earth: Rebel Resistance of Zapatista Children in Chiapas, Mexico13. Listening to Elders: Birds and Forests as Intergenerational Links for Nurturing Social-Ecological Memory in the Southern Andes14. "When We Cut Them, They Feel Pain Too." Indigenous and Afro-Descendent Knowledges in Science Classrooms15. The Emergence of Concern for the Natural Environment: Farm Worker Children, Pesticides, and Direct Experience in Nature16. "I am an Ecomestizo": Significant Life Experiences of Latinx Environmental Professionals17. From Paralysis to Activism: Climate Change and World Care by Young PeopleConclusion

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