Environment in the lives of children and families

Boddy, Janet; Walker, Catherine; Vennam, Uma; Phoenix, Ann

doi:10.1332/9781447339236

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“…Given the lack of literature which engages in dialogue between the majority and minority worlds, there has been limited reciprocal learning across cultural contexts (exceptions include Chawla, 2002;Jeffrey and Dyson, 2008;Panelli et al, 2007;Punch and Tisdall, 2014). There have been even fewer direct comparisons of childhoods situated in the majority world with those from the minority world (notable exceptions include Cribari-Assali, 2018; Katz, 2004;Phoenix et al, 2017).…”

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‘Global/local’ research on children and childhood in a ‘global society’

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Aitken

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To start our conversation, I wonder if you would think of your own research as 'global' or as 'local' research? Also, how do you understand the terms 'local', 'global' and 'globalized' childhood? Do you personally find these terms useful/ productive? STUART AITKEN: For some time now, I've been persuaded by the notion of flat ontologies. Sally Marston and her colleagues David Woodward and J.P. Jones published the now famous piece in the Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers (Marston et al., 2005) that looked at the production of scale for what it was: precisely that, a production. They argued for an intense focus on flat networks and relationalities rather than hierarchical scales, and that is how I like to proceed with my own work with children and young people. I've published books on children and globalization, youth activists jumping scale (to use the term of the late, great Neil Smith, 1992) to affect national and international politics, the impact of neoliberal forms of governance on young people and so forth, and it always seems to come down to (if you will pardon the pun) engagement and aesthetics (the latter formed by the ideas of Jacques Rancière). My empirical work these days looks at young people as part of communities of care rather than scaled communities. Now, it is possible for some people (politicians, CEOs) to create scales and hierarchies to shut young people down so I do not want to diminish the politics behind the production of scale, but for me, at least at the moment, I am very much concerned with reproduction in the sense that Elizabeth Grosz and others use that term. I want to use the term reproduction here in perhaps a more expansive way than it is used by contemporary feminists like Grosz, Cindi Katz, Katharyne Mitchell and others, as the potential for young people to reproduce and remake themselves differently. The importance of the right to create and recreate themselves and their spaces is in the best interests of young people (and adults) and, as a consequence, the focus on spatial rights is not only about occupying spaces that are suitable for access to housing, livelihoods and education but also the right to stay put as well as right of movement and 779480C HD0010.

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