Rematerialising Children'S Agency: Everyday practices in a post-socialist estate
Matej Blazek
Abstract
This book is a detailed study of children’s everyday practices in a small deprived neighbourhood of post-socialist Bratislava, called Kopčany. It provides a novel empirical insight on what it is like to be growing up after 25 years of post-socialist transformations and questions the formation of children’s agency and the multitude of resources it comes from. What happens if we accept children’s practices as cornerstones of communities? What is uncovered if we examine adult’s co-presence with children in everyday community spaces? With a background in youth work, the author writes from the uniq ... More
This book is a detailed study of children’s everyday practices in a small deprived neighbourhood of post-socialist Bratislava, called Kopčany. It provides a novel empirical insight on what it is like to be growing up after 25 years of post-socialist transformations and questions the formation of children’s agency and the multitude of resources it comes from. What happens if we accept children’s practices as cornerstones of communities? What is uncovered if we examine adult’s co-presence with children in everyday community spaces? With a background in youth work, the author writes from the unique position of being able to develop in-depth insights into both children’s life-worlds, and practitioners’ priorities and needs, developing a theory of children’s agency as a theory of action.
Keywords:
childhood,
agency,
theory of action,
post socialism,
place
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2015 |
Print ISBN-13: 9781447322740 |
| Published to Policy Press Scholarship Online: May 2016 |
DOI:10.1332/policypress/9781447322740.001.0001 |
