Landscapes of Childhood and Youth

Gagen, Elizabeth

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“…Here, I wish to shift the focus of the existing literature by reflecting on the normative social identities and activities of girls, as well as their resistances to adults. I hope to contribute to the work on geographies of youth, and girls in particular, by showing that while teenage girls may resist adult control and other youth, they also reinscribe normative social meaning through their spatial manoeuvrings and activities (Gagen 2004). I first offer a brief review of the existing research on girls and public space, before turning to detail my research.…”

Section: Girls In Publicmentioning

confidence: 98%

Girls, consumption space and the contradictions ofhanging out in the city

Thomas

2005

Social & Cultural Geography

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Section: Girls In Publicmentioning

confidence: 98%

Girls, consumption space and the contradictions ofhanging out in the city

Thomas

2005

Social & Cultural Geography

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“…They rightly point out that we need to keep pressing on with the questions of how to conceptualise childhood and adult -child relations, how research operates within and intervenes in these borderlands, and how we construct and reconstruct research orientations in relation to these questions. Gagen (2004) makes the very interesting point that geographies of children/childhood need to penetrate yet further into the worlds of children, including child-child relationships, through, for example, considering "the many ways children inflict harm and hurt on each other, and indeed on adults" (415). This, I think, poses even greater challenges to research about when and how to enter and represent these very other emotional, physiological and psychological life worlds, without killing the life of them through our adult logics of knowing and telling.…”

Section: Power and Knowledgementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Should we be hospitable to all, and all creative acts? As Gagen (2004) implies children can be cruel and obscene. To be so is a form of experimentation, and a kind of creative expression.…”

Section: Proliferationmentioning

confidence: 99%

‘True geography [ ] quickly forgotten, giving away to an adult-imagined universe’. Approaching the otherness of childhood

Jones

2008

Children's Geographies

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True geography [ ] quickly forgotten, giving away to an adult-imagined universe. Approaching the otherness of childhood. Childrens Geographies, 6 (2). pp. 195-212. ISSN 1473-3285 Available from: http://eprints.uwe.ac.uk/12396We recommend you cite the published version. The publisher's URL is: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14733280801963193Refereed: Yes (no note) Disclaimer UWE has obtained warranties from all depositors as to their title in the material deposited and as to their right to deposit such material. UWE makes no representation or warranties of commercial utility, title, or fitness for a particular purpose or any other warranty, express or implied in respect of any material deposited.UWE makes no representation that the use of the materials will not infringe any patent, copyright, trademark or other property or proprietary rights. UWE accepts no liability for any infringement of intellectual property rights in any material deposited but will remove such material from public view pending investigation in the event of an allegation of any such infringement. AbstractIn this paper I seek to explore the idea of the otherness of childhood. I suggest that there are considerable differences between the becomings of children and the becomings of adults. In the face of these a number of questions need to be asked about adult -childhood relations in society and about academic approaches to children and childhood, particularly in terms of representing childhood and the implications of such representing. The paper sets out the idea of otherness, locates this within current debate about the crisis of childhood, and then argues that non-representational approaches might be particularly relevant to progressing children"s geographies. These approaches stress modesty, practice, experimentation, messiness, creativity and openness.As we age, childhood becomes another country, a disputed territory of memory and meaning. Its true geography is quickly forgotten, giving away to an adultimagined universe.The contemporary adult vision of childhood has become so distorted as to render it opaque, and this opacity is seriously affecting how children grow up today. (Brooks 2006: 4 -5).Introduction 2 This paper explores the idea of the otherness of children and its implications for the academic study of children"s worlds, and wider political questions about child -adult relations. The idea of the otherness of children is about the way children differ from adults in quite profound ways, and importantly, the extent to which the becomings of children are not fully knowable by adults. This is a large, uncertain terrain which stretches far beyond easily knowable horizons.Thus I do not offer any kind of comprehensive thesis, but rather a foray into it. The terms "other" and "otherness" are used in a number of ways within philosophy, ethics and the social sciences. Its use here has shadings from two such usages. Firstly I mean other in terms of alterity as in the work of Levinas and Derrida, which is about the unbridgebility between self an...

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“…Mainly, he tries to understand how people succeed in leading satisfactory lives in seemingly oppressed and hopeless positions. The advantages that de Certeau's approach offers have recently been recognised by many geographers, including in respect to children's agency (Flusty 2003;Skelton and Valentine 2003;Gagen 2004;Secor 2004).…”

Section: Extra-policy Politicsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…To mention just a few, the home, park, school, kindergarten, street, city and countryside have all been largely visualised and considered in children's terms (e.g. James 1990; Winchester and Costello 1995;Matthews et al 2000;Holloway and Valentine 2001;Gagen 2004). Children's territories and empowered places have been located in order to understand their everyday lives better.…”

Section: Extra-policy Politicsmentioning

confidence: 99%

The body as a battlefield: approaching children's politics

Kallio

2008

Geografiska Annaler: Series B, Human Geography

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This article discusses the active role of children in everyday politics. Distinct from empowerment, it is suggested that children can be political on their own terms. The article focuses on revealing the social production of childhood, which takes place in the confrontation between child policy and children's own politics. Children's bodies are found to be both the main focus of policy practices and a central avenue of children's own agency. Hence, children are understood to be not only objects of policy, but also embodied political subjects. Using the example of Finnish child evacuees’ experiences during the Second World War, it is shown that, despite their positions in policy fields, children do act as political selves. Using the ideas of Michel de Certeau and Carl Schmitt, it is argued that there is an autonomous politics to children which can be recognized as a significant means of coping in their everyday lives. On these grounds, the article sets out to use Pierre Bourdieu's concept of political struggle in considering childhood spatialities in more detail. Overall, children's politics are understood as a wider geographical concept which requires further examination.

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Landscapes of Childhood and Youth

Cited by 16 publications

References 47 publications

Girls, consumption space and the contradictions ofhanging out in the city

Girls, consumption space and the contradictions ofhanging out in the city

‘True geography [ ] quickly forgotten, giving away to an adult-imagined universe’. Approaching the otherness of childhood

The body as a battlefield: approaching children's politics

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