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Children’s geographies II: Adults

Lookup NU author(s): Dr Matej BlazekORCiD

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Abstract

In this second report on children’s geographies, I ask what geographical research on children and childhood can tell us about adults and adulthood. Discussing three figurative relationalities – childhood as a projection, project and provenance of adulthood – the report addresses the asymmetrical dynamics between adults and children as they manifest distinctively in spatial contexts ranging from family and education to climate politics and war. This relational framing offers a critical lens for examining adulthood not as an implicitly normative model of subjectivity but in relation to its contingent positioning vis-à-vis childhood.

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Author(s): Blazek M

Publication type: Article

Publication status: Published

Journal: Progress in Human Geography

Year: 2024

Pages: Epub ahead of print

Online publication date: 08/11/2024

Acceptance date: 23/10/2024

Date deposited: 08/11/2024

ISSN (print): 0309-1325

ISSN (electronic): 1477-0288

Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd.

URL: https://doi.org/10.1177/03091325241298686

DOI: 10.1177/03091325241298686

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