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Ann Marie Murnaghan

@amfms.bsky.social

Associate Professor at York University, Toronto, Canada. Children’s Geographies, Museums, Films, Playgrounds

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A wonderful piece by my colleague @alisonstenning.bsky.social that highlights children's right to the city and right to play.

23.10.2025 11:38 — 👍 139    🔁 38    💬 2    📌 3
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Opinion | Why You Should Send Thank-You Notes, Even Years Later

Agreed, the world needs more love letters!!! Why You Should Send Thank-You Notes, Even Years Later www.nytimes.com/2025/08/22/o...

22.08.2025 11:09 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Child as citizen book cover features drawing of girl sitting cross-legged holding the earth with a plant growing out of it.

Child as citizen book cover features drawing of girl sitting cross-legged holding the earth with a plant growing out of it.

New chapter alert! Naomi Hamer and I have a chapter on the role of museums in children’s citizenship in this excellent volume hot off the presses. Canadians can buy it here: utpdistribution.com/978149685840...

06.08.2025 23:54 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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European Spa Company Therme Misrepresented Itself in an Effort to Expand Into Canada A Times investigation shows Therme, a European firm, exaggerated its track record in securing a deal with Ontario, and government auditors found that the process had been unfair and opaque.

Our investigation found that Therme — a European firm that runs a spa and water park in Romania and plans to develop similar facilities around the world — misrepresented itself, misleading the Ontario government and exaggerating its experience in its bid to secure a contract in Toronto.

16.04.2025 16:08 — 👍 104    🔁 34    💬 18    📌 12
Geographies of Childhoods I: Historical Perspectives, Hybrid/Streamed
Date: Thursday, 3/27/2025, 8:30am - 9:50am, Room: 251B, Level 2, Huntington Place 
Organizers: Meghan Cope, University of Vermont, Ann Marie Murnaghan, York University
Chair: Meghan Cope, University of Vermont
1.	Alexis Peirce Caudell, Indiana University, The letters and drawings of Karin and Ray Costelloe: memory-makers and preservers
2.	Lucie Glasheen, University of Southampton, Magazine-playground infrastructures, sociality and childhood in nineteen-thirties East London
3.	Meghan Cope, University of Vermont, Making Space(s) for Black Children in Vermont, 1870-1945
4.	Ann Marie Murnaghan, York University, Childism in The Canadian Alternative: Urban planning against children in Detroit and Toronto in the 1970s
5.	Hazim Abdullah-Smith, National Parks Service, Picturing Black Recreation: Black Geographies and Historic Photographs of Camp Mueller

Geographies of Childhoods II: 21st century Perspectives, Hybrid/Streamed
Date: Thursday, 3/27/2025 10:10am - 11:30am 
Room: 251B, Level 2, Huntington Place
Chair: Ann Marie Murnaghan, York University
1.	Tony Dinh, University of Ottawa, Oh, the Places You’ll (Not) Go! Mapping children’s geographies in Canada and the United States during the COVID-19 pandemic
2.	Sarah Zerika, Children's Visual Representations of Alternative School Spaces: Geographical, Historical, and Institutional Perspectives
3.	Diana Garcia Gomez, Bridgewater State University, WITNESS CHILDREN: Rethinking Spatial Remembrance and Campesino Identity in San Carlos, Colombia
4.	Heather Swienton, Texas State University - San Marcos, Children's Cartography: A Mental Map Experiment

Sponsored by: Black Geographies Specialty Group, Cultural Geography Specialty Group, Historical Geography Specialty Group, Qualitative Research Specialty Group

Geographies of Childhoods I: Historical Perspectives, Hybrid/Streamed Date: Thursday, 3/27/2025, 8:30am - 9:50am, Room: 251B, Level 2, Huntington Place Organizers: Meghan Cope, University of Vermont, Ann Marie Murnaghan, York University Chair: Meghan Cope, University of Vermont 1. Alexis Peirce Caudell, Indiana University, The letters and drawings of Karin and Ray Costelloe: memory-makers and preservers 2. Lucie Glasheen, University of Southampton, Magazine-playground infrastructures, sociality and childhood in nineteen-thirties East London 3. Meghan Cope, University of Vermont, Making Space(s) for Black Children in Vermont, 1870-1945 4. Ann Marie Murnaghan, York University, Childism in The Canadian Alternative: Urban planning against children in Detroit and Toronto in the 1970s 5. Hazim Abdullah-Smith, National Parks Service, Picturing Black Recreation: Black Geographies and Historic Photographs of Camp Mueller Geographies of Childhoods II: 21st century Perspectives, Hybrid/Streamed Date: Thursday, 3/27/2025 10:10am - 11:30am Room: 251B, Level 2, Huntington Place Chair: Ann Marie Murnaghan, York University 1. Tony Dinh, University of Ottawa, Oh, the Places You’ll (Not) Go! Mapping children’s geographies in Canada and the United States during the COVID-19 pandemic 2. Sarah Zerika, Children's Visual Representations of Alternative School Spaces: Geographical, Historical, and Institutional Perspectives 3. Diana Garcia Gomez, Bridgewater State University, WITNESS CHILDREN: Rethinking Spatial Remembrance and Campesino Identity in San Carlos, Colombia 4. Heather Swienton, Texas State University - San Marcos, Children's Cartography: A Mental Map Experiment Sponsored by: Black Geographies Specialty Group, Cultural Geography Specialty Group, Historical Geography Specialty Group, Qualitative Research Specialty Group

Happy to be headed to Detroit for #AAG2025! @mcope.bsky.social and I are organizing 2 sessions on Geographies of Childhoods. #histchild #childrensgeogs
Come and join us for some excellent research and discussion

24.03.2025 16:00 — 👍 11    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 1

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28.11.2024 15:58 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Come on #canadapost make a deal with #cupw already!

26.11.2024 15:28 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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5 Takeaways From Bernie Sanders’s Interview on ‘The Daily’ “There was no appreciation — no appreciation — of the struggling and the suffering of millions and millions of working-class people,” the senator said.

Beautiful, hopeful message. Youth in public service with good management! www.nytimes.com/2024/11/15/p...

19.11.2024 15:21 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Happy to join the blue sky. My favourite kind of sky!

18.11.2024 20:36 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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