Smith, T. A. and Dunkley, R. (2018) Technology-nonhuman-child assemblages: reconceptualising rural childhood roaming. Children's Geographies, 16(3), pp. 304-318. (doi: 10.1080/14733285.2017.1407406)
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Abstract
This paper argues for reconceptualising how children use technology ‘outdoors’ as a technology-nonhuman-child assemblage, or roaming pathway. Founded in contemporary fears about children’s reduced opportunities to access nature and roam in rural environments, in part due to the ubiquitous presence of technology in their lives, we instead illustrate how the agencies of technologies and plants are folded into children’s outdoor roaming. Combining visual methods, video analysis and qualitative geovisualisation, and in collaboration with the Brecon Beacons National Park Authority, this paper exposes how assemblages are contingently brought into being through the actions of what technologies, plants and children do together. We demonstrate how the agentic capacities of non-humans and technologies are assembled through children’s imaginative interaction with them, and how these imaginative interactions make such agencies visible.
Item Type: | Articles |
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Status: | Published |
Refereed: | Yes |
Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID: | Dunkley, Dr Ria |
Authors: | Smith, T. A., and Dunkley, R. |
Subjects: | G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > G Geography (General) G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > GF Human ecology. Anthropogeography |
College/School: | College of Social Sciences > School of Education > Social Justice Place and Lifelong Education College of Social Sciences > School of Education > Pedagogy, Praxis & Faith |
Journal Name: | Children's Geographies |
Publisher: | Taylor & Francis |
ISSN: | 1473-3285 |
ISSN (Online): | 1473-3277 |
Published Online: | 23 November 2017 |
Copyright Holders: | Copyright © 2017 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor and Francis Group |
First Published: | First published in Children's Geographies 16(3): 304-318 |
Publisher Policy: | Reproduced in accordance with the publisher copyright policy |
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