Children's spatialities : embodiment, emotion and agency / edited by Abigail Hackett, Lisa Procter, Julie Seymour.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hackett, Abigail, 1980- editor.

Procter, Lisa, 1981- editor.

Seymour, Julie, editor.

Series:

Studies in childhood and youth

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Space perception in children.

Spatial behavior.

Child development.

Child psychology.

Physical Description:

xvi, 204 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.

Summary:

This volume highlights the role of space in enhancing understandings of children's ordinary, everyday experiences, bringing together spatial theory and the interdisciplinary field of childhood studies. Contributors to Children's Spatialities argue that spatial perspectives are central to understanding how children's practices and trajectories are situated within more-than-social contexts. This lens opens up ways of understanding children's lives that move beyond the notion of the individual agent to recognise that agency exists within and between the spaces where children's lives happen. As such, this is a book about the intersectionality between space and cross-disciplinary approaches to childhood studies. In examining these intersections, its contributors ask: What new insights or interpretations does a critical spatial perspective of children's everyday lives offer? What are the implications for spatial theory and practice when children's lives become the primary focus of research? Drawing from a wide range of disciplines including Anthropology, Sociology, Architecture and Geography, this collection offers both students and scholars a range of ways of thinking spatially about children's lives, drawing on empirical studies from a variety of countries internationally. Book jacket.

Contents:

Part I Senses and Embodiment

1 Knowing the World Through Your Body: Children's Sensory Experiences and Making of Place / Kerstin Leder Mackley Mackley, Kerstin Leder, Sarah Pink Pink, Sarah, Roxana Morosanu Morosanu, Roxana 21

2 The Place of Time in Children's Being / Elizabeth Curtis Curtis, Elizabeth 39

3 Making the 'Here' and 'Now': Rethinking Children's Digital Photography with Deleuzian Concepts / Mona Sakr Sakr, Mona, Natalia Kucirkova Kucirkova, Natalia 54

4 Children's Embodied Entanglement and Production of Space in a Museum / Abigail Hackett Hackett, Abigail 75

Part II Emotion and Relationships

5 Children's Emotional Geographies: Politics of Difference and Practices of Engagement / Matej Blazek Blazek, Matej 95

6 Reconceptualising Children's Play: Exploring the Connections Between Spaces, Practices and Emotional Moods / Helle Skovbjerg Karoff Karoff, Helle Skovbjerg 112

7 'No, You've Done It Once!': Children's Expression of Emotion and Their School-Based Place-Making Practices / Lisa Procter Procter, Lisa 128

Part III Spatial Agency

8 Approaches to Children's Spatial Agency: Reviewing Actors, Agents and Families / Julie Seymour Seymour, Julie 147

9 Children and Young People's Spatial Agency / Helen Woolley Woolley, Helen 163

10 A Proper Place for a Proper Childhood? Children's Spatiality in a Play Centre / Caterina Satta Satta, Caterina 178.

ISBN:

9781137464972

1137464976

OCLC:

911135009