A safe place to grow up? Parenting, perceptions of children's safety and the rural idyll

Valentine, Gill

doi:10.1016/s0743-0167(97)83094-x

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“…This reflects the contradictions inherent in the idyllisation of rural childhood (Valentine, 1997). As Bushin (2004) has found in her research, it is often very easy to use children's needs as a way of explaining migration decisions, regardless of the significance of other reasons.…”

Section: Childrenmentioning

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The ‘green green grass of home’? Return migration to rural Ireland

Laoire

2007

Journal of Rural Studies

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Section: Childrenmentioning

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“…This also incorporates notions of the heterosexual nuclear family and of rearing children in the countryside (Valentine, 1997). Ireland is commonly constructed by them as a good place to bring up children, characterised by a sense of freedom and space, safety, and the support of an extended family network.…”

Section: Childrenmentioning

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The ‘green green grass of home’? Return migration to rural Ireland

Laoire

2007

Journal of Rural Studies

151

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“…While there has been increasing interest in the social geographies of childhood in recent years (see, for example, Valentine, 1997aValentine, , 1997bMatthews and Limb, 1999;Holloway and Valentine, 2000a;McKendrick et al, 2000aMcKendrick et al, , 2000bSmith and Barker, 2000a, 2001, early childhood has been somewhat neglected, perhaps due to 'our' general underestimation of the abilities and social competence of young children and the perceived methodological difficulties in engaging with them, despite the growing literature on research with young children (see Corsaro, 1997;Cousins, 1999;Clark and Moss, 2001;Lancaster and Broadbent, 2003). Popular terms for young children imply that they are insufficient-'pre-school children', 'under-fives', 'under-threes'-or incapable-'toddlers'- (Daniel and Ivatts, 1998).…”

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‘The terrible twos’: Gaining control in the nursery?

Gallacher

2005

Children's Geographies

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'The terrible twos' are often described as a time of 'gaining control', usually thought of as adults asserting control over children, who learn to control themselves. However, toddlerhood is as much about children learning to take control for themselves. This paper is an attempt to detail something of the social geography in the toddler room of a Scottish nursery, considering both styles of adult control and the ways in which toddlers attempt to appropriate and reconfigure space and time for themselves. That is, the ways in which space and time are negotiated in the course of day-to-day nursery life.

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“…The moral status of children has long been subject to debate in Western societies (Valentine, 1996), and at least some early twentieth century observers associated outdoor life with moral improvement in the young (Thurber & Malinowski, 1999). In the contemporary English context, Valentine (1997) observes that the countryside is still imagined as an ideal place in which to grow up Ð an environment in which the innocence of children can be protected. However, this dominant conception is contested as rural communities and lifestyles are perceived to be under increasing pressure from negative (predominantly urban) in¯u-ences.…”

Section: Children's Health Campsmentioning

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New Zealand children’s health camps: therapeutic landscapes meet the contract state

Kearns

Collins

2000

Social Science & Medicine

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This paper surveys the history and current status of children's health camps in New Zealand, and places these sites within the theoretical context of therapeutic landscapes. The ®rst health camp was established in 1919, and the seven current camps provide respite, education and health care for approximately 4000 children each year. We analyse the health-place relations inherent in the health camp concept and suggest that the`therapeutic landscape' idea developed by Gesler provides a useful framework to explain the development of camps as sites for enhancing child and family welfare. Speci®cally, we contend that changing understandings of health and children have been closely linked with changing perceptions of what is therapeutic about the camps. Survey data demonstrate that contemporary restructuring of the welfare state has recast the role of health camps and placed them in a precarious position in terms of both ®nancial viability and public acceptability. We conclude that the current status of health camps is ambiguous given the pressures of deinstitutionalisation philosophies and the regulatory environment of formal contracts between funders and providers. 7

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A safe place to grow up? Parenting, perceptions of children's safety and the rural idyll

Cited by 235 publications

References 22 publications

The ‘green green grass of home’? Return migration to rural Ireland

The ‘green green grass of home’? Return migration to rural Ireland

‘The terrible twos’: Gaining control in the nursery?

New Zealand children’s health camps: therapeutic landscapes meet the contract state

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