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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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Format:
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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