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The Everyday Lives of Children Who Have Experienced Domestic Abuse : Looking Beyond the Trauma Lens.
De Gruyter Bristol University Press/Policy Press Complete eBook-Package 2026 Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Herbert, Brenda.
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (221 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Bristol : Policy Press, 2026.
- Summary:
- Discussions on children who have experienced domestic abuse often focuses on trauma and risks, and little is known about their lives beyond abuse.This risks pathologising children and reinforcing colonial and patriarchal social norms.
- Contents:
- Front Cover
- The Everyday Lives of Children Who Have Experienced Domestic AbusE: Looking Beyond the Trauma Lens
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Table of Contents
- List of figures
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction: Now you see me
- Children and mothers in their own words
- The children
- The mothers
- Domestic abuse and children
- The story of harm
- Domestic abuse, safeguarding and social work intervention
- The figure of the child and epistemic justice
- Cultural theories of the everyday
- The reluctant ethnographer
- Shifting the gaze
- Summary of the book
- One last note before I begin
- 2 Over-researched and under-represented: decolonising the figure of the child
- Child as method
- The passive child
- The early years child
- The fugitive child
- Tropes of childhood beyond the social work literature
- The figure of the child soldier
- The figure of the traumatised child
- Disrupting the Global North/Global South binary
- Tropes of childhood and the purpose of dehumanisation
- Humanising the child and epistemic justice
- The case for studying the everyday of children who have experienced domestic abuse
- Conclusion
- 3 The everyday life of Mystical
- Everyday relations, food and identity
- Everyday space and safety
- Everyday relationships: portrait of a mother
- A sticker for his mother
- Impediments to the good life: being 'good' at school
- 'The voice of Mystical'
- Living and researching under the shadow of child protection (CP)
- 4 Taking the fun out of play
- Making sense of fun and play
- Bending, changing and breaking rules
- Playground: an everyday place for fun
- 'Catch me!' Playground, bodies, risk and fun
- Desire hiding in plain sight
- Vouchers for fun: subverting resource for play
- Mothers' delight: a different gaze
- Loitering with pleasure
- Conclusion.
- 5 The aesthetics of everyday life
- The knife in the sun
- Banners, balloons and waiting for the big day
- The bedroom
- A doll that looks like me
- Virtual homes
- Minecraft and curation
- Memories and photographs: the aesthetic of remembering, curating and archiving
- Outside in
- Everlasting and shifting shapes
- Shape-shifters
- 6 The art of loving in everyday life
- 'What's Love Got to Do with It?'
- Do you want to play? The art of getting to know you, me, us
- Sisterly love
- Unloving spaces
- Patriarchy and love
- 'I just nod my head and smile': care without love
- Philia: love of a friend
- Multi-species love
- Mothers' love
- My 'other family': researcher's love
- 7 Conclusion: Floating Matters
- Who gets to tell the story?
- Decolonising the figure of the child through multimodality
- It takes time
- 'Blah blah blah': creating with children
- What will you do with my story?
- More than that!
- Appendix : Methods
- Art packs
- Video calls, telephone calls and home visits
- Prompted photography/videos
- Gaming (Minecraft/Roblox)
- Use of internet (YouTube)
- Object stories
- Photography
- Walking (physically distanced)
- Exhibition
- Photo book
- References
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-4473-7470-3
- 9781447374701
- OCLC:
- 1569120190
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