2011
DOI: 10.1080/13619462.2011.597552
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Be Prepared: Communism and the Politics of Scouting in 1950s Britain

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“…Mills has shown how the Scouting movement has been continually re-defined and 'stretched' in different directions, whether in relation to gender, faith and ethnicity, and political ideals (Mills 2011a;2011b;.…”
Section: Nations 'Groupness' and The Geographies Of (Devolved) Youthmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…Mills has shown how the Scouting movement has been continually re-defined and 'stretched' in different directions, whether in relation to gender, faith and ethnicity, and political ideals (Mills 2011a;2011b;.…”
Section: Nations 'Groupness' and The Geographies Of (Devolved) Youthmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Some demands have been accommodated in relatively straightforward ways, such as the need for a co-educational Scouting movement (Mills, 2011a) and demands to embrace religious difference (Mills, 2012). Others, such as those thrown up by the presence of a Communist Scout within the movement during the 1950s, did not lead to a process of accommodation but rather encouraged the Scout movement to re-emphasise its traditional commitments to the state and to Christianity (Mills, 2011b). The exact outcomes of these processes are, nonetheless, less important than the fact that they took place in the first place.…”
Section: Nations 'Groupness' and The Geographies Of (Devolved) Youthmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Robson, Horton, and Kraftl (2013) have shown that the people publishing in the journal are interdisciplinary in nature, both in the sense that the majority of first authors are from outside geography, but also in that disciplinary diversity is common in jointly written papers. Moreover, there are numerous examples of where geographers publish in other disciplinary contexts (Mills 2011;.…”
Section: Thinking Beyond the Sub-disciplinementioning
confidence: 99%
“…Although the Scout Law could be viewed as a suggestive code of conduct with no real repercussions, there have been clear examples where certain types of behaviour, or beliefs, have been judged ‘unlawful’ by the organisation and members excluded on these grounds. For example, a minority of Boy Scouts were exposed as members of the Young Communist League in the 1950s and castigated for their failure to ‘keep’ the Scout Law (Mills 2011b).…”
Section: Constructing Citizen‐scout and The Moral Geographies Of Scoumentioning
confidence: 99%