Rematerialising Children's Agency : : Everyday Practices in a Post-Socialist Estate / / Matej Blazek.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Bristol University Press Complete eBook-Package 2015
• VerfasserIn: Blazek, Matej,
• Place / Publishing House: Bristol : : Policy Press, , [2015]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (276 p.) :; 35 Black and White

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 adults' 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.

Table of Contents

Front Matter -- Contents -- List of tables, figures and maps -- About the author -- Acknowledgements -- Part One -- Introduction -- Part Two -- Locating the field -- Practising the field -- Thinking the field -- Part Three -- Public spaces of Kopčany -- The body and embodiment -- Things -- Everyday social encounters and circumscribed routines -- Family life -- Friendship -- Notions of social identity -- Part Four -- Rematerialising children’s agency -- References -- Index