The Power of Place in Play : : A Bourdieusian Analysis of Auckland Children's Seasonal Play Practices / / Christina R. Ergler.

"There's nothing really fun about the park in winter!" - Christina Ergler is the first one to explore why `play' resonates differently across urban localities and seasons. She draws on Bourdieu's theory of practice and Gibson's affordance theory to show that determinant...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus PP Package 2020 Part 2
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Place / Publishing House:Bielefeld : : transcript Verlag, , [2020]
©2020
Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
Series:Sozial- und Kulturgeographie ; 17
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Physical Description:1 online resource (404 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Table of contents
  • Abstract
  • Keywords
  • Acknowledgements
  • Prologue
  • 1. ‘Playing around’ with children’s outdoor play
  • 2. ‘Obesogenic landscapes’ in children’s geographies: mapping key debates and perspectives
  • 3. A conceptual framework for understanding children’s seasonal outdoor play: Bourdieu and affordances
  • 4. ‘Methodological principles’: a Bourdieusian approach to unpack outdoor play
  • 5. The research practice: procedural principles
  • 6. Locating Auckland Central and Beach Haven
  • 7. The social history of play: Auckland a city of managed childhood?
  • 8. The inhabitation of Auckland Central and Beach Haven: a parental pursuit
  • 9. ‘Profits of localisation’ for outdoor play in Auckland Central and Beach Haven
  • 10. Spaces of points of view: the logics of outdoor play in summer and winter
  • 11. Struggles in the ‘field of play’: five insights into understanding and explaining ‘obesogenic landscapes’
  • 12. Closing, refurbishing and re-opening the ‘play grounds’ of ‘obesogenic landscapes’
  • References