‘Doing an extended space of everyday life’: rethinking terminology in children’s everyday geographies.
Avendal, Christel LU
(2025)
In Children's Geographies
23(4).
p.421-434
- Abstract
- This article investigates the potential of alternative research terminology
to facilitate the utilisation of existing geographical conceptions of space
and place in empirical studies of children’s everyday lives. This is
achieved by employing Clifford Geertz’s (1974. “‘From the Native’s Point
of View’: On the Nature of Anthropological Understanding.” Bulletin of
the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 28 (1): 26–45) concepts of
‘experience-near’ and ‘experience-distant’ in the context of research on
children’s everyday lives, and by presenting empirical data
demonstrating how the daily material social practices of children result
in the formation of dynamic spaces that transcend... (More) - This article investigates the potential of alternative research terminology
to facilitate the utilisation of existing geographical conceptions of space
and place in empirical studies of children’s everyday lives. This is
achieved by employing Clifford Geertz’s (1974. “‘From the Native’s Point
of View’: On the Nature of Anthropological Understanding.” Bulletin of
the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 28 (1): 26–45) concepts of
‘experience-near’ and ‘experience-distant’ in the context of research on
children’s everyday lives, and by presenting empirical data
demonstrating how the daily material social practices of children result
in the formation of dynamic spaces that transcend geographical
boundaries and scales. The article proposes the use of neither a wholly
experience-near nor wholly experience-distant name for space and
place, and puts forward the notion of ‘doing an extended space of
everyday life’ as a middle ground. Mundane action is suggested as a
unit of analysis in empirical studies of children’s geographies. The
article concludes by suggesting that interviews and ‘talk’, as well as
engagement with everyday life studies, could prove a fruitful avenue of
enquiry in studies of children’s everyday geographies. (Less)
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- Avendal, Christel
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- 2025
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- Taylor & Francis
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- ISSN
- 1473-3277
- DOI
- 10.1080/14733285.2025.2527626
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- English
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