Safe Places in Domestic Spaces: Two-Year-Olds at Play in their Homes

Hancock, Roger; Gillen, Julia

doi:10.1080/14733280701631775

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“…Ethnographic explorations of young children offer insight into how the agency of children can be expressed without recourse to a notion of a sovereign, autonomous agent (Hancock and Gillen, 2007;cf. Horton and Kraftl 2011) viii .…”

Section: Some Possible Methodological and Epistemological Approaches mentioning

confidence: 99%

Exploring the Emergence of the Subject in Power: Infant Geographies

Holt

2013

Environ Plan D

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Following Butler's argument that understanding the operations of power requires an examination of the contexts of 'infants' emergence', this paper explores the potential for infant geographies. Butler points to the importance of infancy to subjection, the formation of psyches, and the 'fiction' of an interior or socially anterior self. Attention to infants' everyday geographies therefore has the potential to unravel how individuals are subjected; how power becomes an embodied part of individuals' subjective identities, operating creatively to produce subjects with agency, and, at the same time, limiting and circumscribing appropriate subjectivities. A critical reflection on Butler suggests a need to focus upon how subjection occurs in specific material spaces, and the role of a host of human and nonhuman others to the process of subjection. Also pertinent is a fuller exploration of how diversities of kinship and nonkinship social relations might lead to other constellations of power in the subjection of infants. How the geographies of infants can be operationalised methodologically and epistemologically is also explored. The paper has broader resonance to issues of subjection; to how embodied inequalities are reproduced, transformed, or both; to questions of agency; and to concerns to deconstruct an autonomous, thinking, rational, human subject within human geography-reconfiguring individuals as constituted within emotional and psychic interdependency.

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Section: Some Possible Methodological and Epistemological Approaches mentioning

confidence: 99%

Exploring the Emergence of the Subject in Power: Infant Geographies

Holt

2013

Environ Plan D

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“…The paramountcy of the child's welfare has been a prominent policy issue at both national and international levels due to the ongoing political and social concerns over the physical and emotional integrity of the child within the family and the inability of the welfare system to protect children. Critics have viewed the private/family/home associations as overly romanticised with home and family a place from which some children need to escape rather than a retreat from the public realm (Hancock and Gillen 2007). Arguably now there is less trust in the family with more questioning of parent-child relations (Parton 2006).…”

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Children, Family and the State: Revisiting Public and Private Realms

Wyness

2013

Sociology

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A note on versions:The version presented here may differ from the published version or, version of record, if you wish to cite this item you are advised to consult the publisher's version. Please see the 'permanent WRAP url' above for details on accessing the published version and note that access may require a subscription.For more information, please contact the WRAP Team at: publications@warwick.ac.uk 1 Family and the State: revisiting public and private realmsAbstract: The state is often viewed as part of the impersonal public sphere in opposition to the private family as a locus of warmth and intimacy. In recent years this modernist dichotomy has been challenged by theoretical and institutional trends which have altered the relationship between state and family. This paper explores changes to both elements of the dichotomy that challenge this relationship: a more fragmented family structure and more individualised and networked support for children. It will also examine two new elements that further disrupt any clear mapping between state/family and public/private dichotomies: the third party role of the child in family/ state affairs and children's application of virtual technology that locates the private within new cultural and social spaces. The paper concludes by examining the rise of the 'individual child' hitherto hidden within the family/state dichotomy and the implications this has for intergenerational relations at personal and institutional levels.

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“…Accounts of youth have also continued apace (Evans, 2008). A very small number of studies have attempted to engage with young children as agents (Gallacher, 2005;Harker, 2005;Hancock & Gillen, 2007;Horton & Kraftl, 2010). I am aware of only one recent study which specifically seeks to explore the geographies of infants as agents (de Campos Tebet, 2015).…”

Section: Why Are Infants As Agents Largely Absent From Geography Andmentioning

confidence: 99%

Food, feeding and the material everyday geographies of infants: possibilities and potentials

Holt

2016

Social & Cultural Geography

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Safe Places in Domestic Spaces: Two-Year-Olds at Play in their Homes

Cited by 45 publications

References 17 publications

Exploring the Emergence of the Subject in Power: Infant Geographies

Exploring the Emergence of the Subject in Power: Infant Geographies

Children, Family and the State: Revisiting Public and Private Realms

Food, feeding and the material everyday geographies of infants: possibilities and potentials

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