The Spatial Imperative of Subjectivity

Probyn, Elspeth

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“…Similarly, those with 'Western toilets' 3 at home proudly presented themselves as being modern because they had advanced bathroom facilities. The spaces in which children lived and in which they went to school did not only contribute directly towards the formation of specific subjectivities as suggested by Probyn (2003) and Nightingale (2003), but also towards the creation of different sets of rules (fields) and different sets of dispositions (habitus). This then resulted in different practices, such as drinking (or not drinking) clean water, as well as different internal subjectivities, such as not caring about the lack of toilets, or considering the Western toilet in their home as a token of their modern, advanced identity.…”

Section: Children's Affective Relationships With Their Environmentsmentioning

confidence: 93%

“…Geographical work on subjectivities suggests that they constitute and are constituted by time and space (Probyn 2003). For example, in Dyson's (2015) work, children's movements through the Indian Himalaya's while herding livestock and through their life courses both play a role in the formation of children's environmental subjectivities.…”

Section: Theorymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…My conceptualization of environmental subjectivity does not only cover practical engagement with environments, but is also about thinking, consciousness and sense of self: issues that have long been thought of as being positioned somewhere deep inside ourselves (McDowell and Sharp 1999;Longhurst 2003;Probyn 2003). According to Bourdieu (1990), one's habitus informs one's (inner) subjectivity as well as one's practices.…”

Section: Theorymentioning

confidence: 99%

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This article explores the formation of South Indian children's (11-15 years old) environmental subjectivities based on five months of qualitative fieldwork with children in their school and non-school lives. By doing so, this paper aims to widen the scope of the existing literature on children's environmental subjectivities, which so far focused on separate aspects of children's lives such as environmental education, social relations or children's life courses. To do so, I use [Bourdieu, P. 1990. The Logic of Practice. Cambridge, UK: Polity Press] concepts of field, habitus and cultural capital along with a non-teleological notion of environmental subjectivity and insights from wider geographical literature on the formation of subjectivities. The paper shows how children's environmental subjectivities are constituted by and partially constitute the material environments and fields in which children live, their cultural capital and habitus, their movements through their life course and their environments and a wide range of practices through which children experience their environments. ARTICLE HISTORY

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“…This, we believe, respects the entwining of body-self/other-writing in a given space-time, where/when the body engages in theory making through the production of a text (Zita, 1998;Probyn, 2003 For example, as the following section demonstrates, pronominal reference shifts (i.e. shifts between 'I' and 'you') and time-space references 'write' liminality as an embodied and embedded movement from one identity to the other, constantly deferring identity 'closure'…”

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“…The Freelands' operation can be read as interpellation (Althusser, 1984;Probyn, 2003) -a call to engagement which some consumers recognised and responded to through the provision and consumption of hospitality. By doing so they submitted to the imperatives of hospitable space and became, as Probyn (2003) argued, subjects of the ideologies it embodied. This is not to imply naivety or mindless conformance on their part.…”

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The Spatial Imperative of Subjectivity

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Multiple environments: South Indian children’s environmental subjectivities in formation

Multiple environments: South Indian children’s environmental subjectivities in formation

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The Production of Hospitable Space: Commercial Propositions and Consumer Co-Creation in a Bar Operation

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