Christina R Ergler
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 1733801 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Christina R Ergler |
| NOMBRES | Christina R |
| APELLIDO | Ergler |
| FIRMA | ERGLER C R |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Otago |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6924-7894 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 42 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 110 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 42 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2009 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Digital geographies of/and childhood and youth
This article explores research on digital geographies of childhood and youth , critically considering (potential) contributions to wider scholarship in geography and interdisciplinary childhood studies. Although geographers’ engagement with this emerging field is developing productively, extant scholarship remains relatively diffuse and research methods-focused; more sustained interrogation of digital processes and experiences with/in young peopl…
The death and life of urban public spaces
Young people play a central role in shaping public spaces, yet in contexts marked by control and surveillance their presence often generates tension. This study examines how young Iranians in Gorgan, aged 18–30, navigate and reshape restrictive urban environments, with a particular focus on the interplay between affect, atmosphere, and infrastructures. Drawing on photovoice, ethnographic observation, online and in-person interviews, we show that …
Unseen citizens
Belonging in urban park and playgrounds
Discrimination in public parks negatively impacts the wellbeing of disabled children and their families, despite their legal right to play. • Access to play is closely tied to wellbeing elements such as cultural identity, inclusive design, equity, and self-determination, as framed by the Te Pae Māhutonga model. • Physical and social barriers persist, requiring disabled children and their families to exert extra effort to access play spaces, affec…
Children's and young people's digital geographies
Labour will progress where māmā feel safe
High rates of intervention in birth is a significant health issue. Primary birth centres are midwife-led sites for care with lower rates of intervention in birth than hospitals. Yet hospital births dominate birthplace decision-making in New Zealand. In-depth interviews with 24 health workers associated with four primary birth centres aim to identify how confidence in a primary centre birth is built. Thematic analysis demonstrates how midwives dis…
Digital footprints of play
Autism, Disability, and Being Well in Place
Neighbourhood environments are increasingly being recognised as settings within which people experience well- or ill-being. However, Autistic people are seldom considered in wellbeing research, which often centres on neurotypical experiences of places. Autistic people's encounters within places, and the effects of these encounters on their wellbeing, are therefore under-researched and under-theorised. This paper considers how a relational concept…
Home as a Place of Refuge, Despair, and Self-Care for Men Living With Mental Health Challenges
Men's poor mental health outcomes and heightened risk for suicide have been linked to their maladaptive responses to life stressors. In this photovoice study of 21 New Zealand-based men who experienced depression, anxiety, and suicidality, participants' home emerged as an important place and resource for dealing with their mental health challenges. Utilizing the therapeutic landscapes "enabling places" framework combined with masculinities theory…
From fun to function
Spaces for play in children's daily-life are essential for their development. However, planning in most cities is limitedly aware of children's needs for playable-spaces. This study explores a PPGIS-approach to identify the “Playscape-quality” of a city, offering insights for planners. Our approach involved 416 children in Mariwan\Iran. Using polygons instead of the conventional pinning-points, children digitally mapped their favourite-outdoor-pl…
Whose geography do we review
In the context of discipline‐wide efforts to produce more inclusive, just, and equitable norms of geographical knowledge production, section editors for Geography Compass identify five concrete practices by which to address systemic inequities, injustices, and exclusions through their editorial work
Expanding the scope of ethical research with and for children and young people – six viewpoints on crisis, cross-cultural working and reciprocity
This Viewpoints piece is a collection of six contributions to a wider Special Issue for Children’s Geographies on ‘Renewed questions of ethics in research with and for children and young people.’ The pieces extend the Issue in two key ways: i) by representing urgent questions of pandemic and crisis related ethics; and ii) extending the geographical and cultural scope of thinking ethically in research with children and young people
Pacific Island children
Children's voices have been little heard in the Pacific research. The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child 1989 asserts the child's right to have a say on matters that affect them and for their views to be considered. There has been massive growth in technologically assisted participative research; however, we argue the value of hand drawn maps should not be underestimated in the rush to engage with more advanced techniques. We pr…
Covid‐19 stigma, Australia and slow violence
Throughout the peak periods of Australia's COVID‐19 pandemic experience of 2020–2021, some lower socioeconomic areas with high migrant populations in Sydney and Melbourne were subjected to strict lockdown enforcement that included heavy police surveillance not experienced in the more affluent areas of these cities. Analysis of four major newspapers' COVID‐19 coverage from January 2020 to September 2021 reveals their reporting focussed on aspects …
‘Cognitive enhancers’
Qualitative work with students who use prescription medicines for academic purposes is limited. Thus, a more nuanced understanding of tertiary students’ experiences is urgently needed. Our study – which draws on five semi-structured interviews with New Zealand university students, complemented with information from local newspapers, blog entries and discussion forums – reveals students’ motivations and perceived effects, their risk perceptions an…
Identity, belonging and place attachment amongst Pacific Island children
This paper explores the intersection between place, culture and identity as evidenced through photographic narratives of Pacific Island children, based in Samoa and a diasporic community in New Zealand. The study was undertaken with 71 children aged 6–14 in Samoa (35) and New Zealand (36). A Talanoa/fa’afaletui (conversation-based) Pacific research approach was used to analyse 1285 children’s photos of ‘things that matter to them’. Most photos sh…
The other side of the story
Pre‐Schoolers’ Vision for Liveable Cities
Although children of all ages have the right to participate in urban planning projects, pre‐literate children’s voices are absent from urban debates. In this paper, we explore pre‐schoolers’ experiences in, and expectations for, their city by drawing on a participatory research project that used neighbourhood walks and a tile‐based mapping exercise. Findings suggest that young children, although largely absent from planning, policy or child‐frien…
Guest editorialA pandemic of global inequality
Kinship and belonging
Our study with 71 children aged 6-14 living in New Zealand and Samoa, provides a new child-centred perspective on transnational diasporic families. We use the Pacific concept vā to frame the study, in which children's transnational-kinship connections reflect relational rather than physical approaches to space. Familial habitus surpasses spatial habitus as children's primary reference point. For diasporic children, family keeps alive their sense …
Covid-19 in New Zealand and the Pacific
The experience of Covid-19 in Aotearoa New Zealand in 2020 has been strongly shaped by a narrative emanating from a robust partnership between politicians and public health experts. This narrative, as we illustrate in the sections below, treads a careful line between hard and soft responses. To elaborate, enacting policy such as closing borders and requiring ‘lockdown’ was swift and firm but was accompanied by an attempt to develop a disposition …
Walking with preschool-aged children to explore their local wellbeing affordances
An increasingly well-developed body of research uses neighbourhood walks to better understand primary school children's experiences of local environments, yet virtually nothing is known about preschool-aged children's connections to their neighbourhoods. A reason for this omission is the commonly held view that preschool children lack competency to reflect on lived environments beyond playgrounds, kindergartens, and other confined settings that d…
The braided river of health geography
Samoan children's sense of place
Pacific Island communities are experiencing significant societal changes as a result of rural urban, inter‐island migration and migration to New Zealand. These relocations have significant implications for children's relationship to place. However, virtually nothing is known about children's sense of place in Samoa or places and activities that are important to them. This exploratory study worked with eight children aged 5–12 years growing up in …
Pre-schoolers' transport imaginaries
Seasonal and locational variations in children's play
Digital methodologies and practices in children's geographies
Digital technologies are part of children's everyday life and increasingly feature within academics’ research practice. The omnipresence of new technologies such as smartphones, tablet computers an
Entitlements to health care
Exploring children’s seasonal play to promote active lifestyles in Auckland, New Zealand
Advocating for a More Relational and Dynamic Model of Participation for Child Researchers
Primary school children participating as researchers has become a moral obligation to meet the goal of children’s participation rights. Yet, critical voices rarely question the ethical and practical implications of turning young children into mini-clones of adult researchers. While enabling and constraining aspects of participatory methods and inherent power issues per se are widely discussed, adult researchers still seem to struggle to criticall…
Like a soccer camp for boys’
Boys are more physically active than girls and the greatest gender difference in children’s physical activity is found in institutional settings such as school recess. However, research on gender relations, performances and practices that maintain gendered differences in physical activity during recess is still limited. Drawing on a qualitative dataset and a social constructivist gender view, the aim of this study was to investigate how construct…
Samoan children's sense of place
Pacific Island communities are experiencing significant societal changes as a result of rural urban, inter‐island migration and migration to New Zealand. These relocations have significant implications for children's relationship to place. However, virtually nothing is known about children's sense of place in Samoa or places and activities that are important to them. This exploratory study worked with eight children aged 5–12 years growing up in …
Pre‐Schoolers’ Vision for Liveable Cities
Although children of all ages have the right to participate in urban planning projects, pre‐literate children’s voices are absent from urban debates. In this paper, we explore pre‐schoolers’ experiences in, and expectations for, their city by drawing on a participatory research project that used neighbourhood walks and a tile‐based mapping exercise. Findings suggest that young children, although largely absent from planning, policy or child‐frien…
Covid-19 in New Zealand and the Pacific
The experience of Covid-19 in Aotearoa New Zealand in 2020 has been strongly shaped by a narrative emanating from a robust partnership between politicians and public health experts. This narrative, as we illustrate in the sections below, treads a careful line between hard and soft responses. To elaborate, enacting policy such as closing borders and requiring ‘lockdown’ was swift and firm but was accompanied by an attempt to develop a disposition …
Pacific Island children
Children's voices have been little heard in the Pacific research. The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child 1989 asserts the child's right to have a say on matters that affect them and for their views to be considered. There has been massive growth in technologically assisted participative research; however, we argue the value of hand drawn maps should not be underestimated in the rush to engage with more advanced techniques. We pr…
Covid‐19 stigma, Australia and slow violence
Throughout the peak periods of Australia's COVID‐19 pandemic experience of 2020–2021, some lower socioeconomic areas with high migrant populations in Sydney and Melbourne were subjected to strict lockdown enforcement that included heavy police surveillance not experienced in the more affluent areas of these cities. Analysis of four major newspapers' COVID‐19 coverage from January 2020 to September 2021 reveals their reporting focussed on aspects …
Identity, belonging and place attachment amongst Pacific Island children
This paper explores the intersection between place, culture and identity as evidenced through photographic narratives of Pacific Island children, based in Samoa and a diasporic community in New Zealand. The study was undertaken with 71 children aged 6–14 in Samoa (35) and New Zealand (36). A Talanoa/fa’afaletui (conversation-based) Pacific research approach was used to analyse 1285 children’s photos of ‘things that matter to them’. Most photos sh…
Walking with preschool-aged children to explore their local wellbeing affordances
An increasingly well-developed body of research uses neighbourhood walks to better understand primary school children's experiences of local environments, yet virtually nothing is known about preschool-aged children's connections to their neighbourhoods. A reason for this omission is the commonly held view that preschool children lack competency to reflect on lived environments beyond playgrounds, kindergartens, and other confined settings that d…
Pre-schoolers' transport imaginaries
Expanding the scope of ethical research with and for children and young people – six viewpoints on crisis, cross-cultural working and reciprocity
This Viewpoints piece is a collection of six contributions to a wider Special Issue for Children’s Geographies on ‘Renewed questions of ethics in research with and for children and young people.’ The pieces extend the Issue in two key ways: i) by representing urgent questions of pandemic and crisis related ethics; and ii) extending the geographical and cultural scope of thinking ethically in research with children and young people
The importance of social capital for young People's active transport and independent mobility in rural Otago, New Zealand
Playing with Poetry
In this article, we undertake a methodological and creative exploration of poetic representation in children’s geographies. Drawing on qualitative approaches to poetry as a method, we consider how poetic techniques have the potential to bring us into children’s experiences in different ways and inspire more playful engagement with our research data more broadly. We present an illustrated series of research poems derived from our project on childr…
Children's and young people's digital geographies
The other side of the story
Kinship and belonging
Our study with 71 children aged 6-14 living in New Zealand and Samoa, provides a new child-centred perspective on transnational diasporic families. We use the Pacific concept vā to frame the study, in which children's transnational-kinship connections reflect relational rather than physical approaches to space. Familial habitus surpasses spatial habitus as children's primary reference point. For diasporic children, family keeps alive their sense …
The braided river of health geography
Understanding the Relationship between Activity and Neighbourhoods (Urban) Study
The URBAN Study is applying a novel scientifically robust research design to provide urgently needed epidemiological information regarding the associations between the built environment and health outcomes. The findings will contribute to a larger, international initiative in which similar neighborhood selection and PA measurement procedures are utilized across eight countries. Accordingly, this study directly addresses the international priority…
Kids in the city study
This study is one of the first internationally to examine the association of specific urban design attributes with child independent mobility. Using robust, appropriate, and best practice objective measures, this study provides robust epidemiological information regarding the relationships between the built environment and health outcomes for this population
Entitlements to health care
The legacy of an intervention
This paper explores the mobility experiences of 20 young people in three Auckland neighbourhoods who had, as primary school children, participated in walking school buses (WSB). This intervention engages children in routine chaperoned walking to and from school. Our contention was that this experience would leave a ‘traces’ of enthusiasm for walking as an everyday form of active travel in an environment in which driving is the aspirational norm. …
Seasonal and locational variations in children's play
Burden of direct and indirect costs of illness
According to a recent WHO report, around 100 million people are reduced to poverty every year due to costs associated with illness. Contributing to the growing literature on the economic burden of illness, this article examines the indirect and direct costs of illness that occur at the household level, describes their influence on treatment-seeking behaviour and assesses their impact on household welfare. The results presented are based on an emp…
Like a soccer camp for boys’
Boys are more physically active than girls and the greatest gender difference in children’s physical activity is found in institutional settings such as school recess. However, research on gender relations, performances and practices that maintain gendered differences in physical activity during recess is still limited. Drawing on a qualitative dataset and a social constructivist gender view, the aim of this study was to investigate how construct…
Te Manako
When a traditional Indigenous identity is submerged beneath a cloud of contemporary politics and power relations, how might such a situation undermine its educational and developmental aspirations? This article examines the case of Te Riu o Hokianga (the valley of Hokianga) in Aotearoa New Zealand, where the imposition of a contemporary political identity is adversely affecting the development of a more culturally appropriate identity, otherwise …
Childhood with Bourdieu
Pierre Bourdieu is a social theorist frequently cited by geographers and Childhood Studies scholars, ‘but rarely engage[d] with in any depth’ (Painter 2000, 246). This lack of depth does not hold t
Digital methodologies and practices in children's geographies
Digital technologies are part of children's everyday life and increasingly feature within academics’ research practice. The omnipresence of new technologies such as smartphones, tablet computers an
Exploring children’s seasonal play to promote active lifestyles in Auckland, New Zealand
Planning with Preschoolers
The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child requires that children ‘have the right to be heard in matters affecting them’ (Article 12). Given that planning matters such as housing, transport, services and recreation provision affect children, it is necessary, therefore, for planners to engage with children. While planning has made considerable progress in working with older children, preschool children have been overlooked. Preschool…
Advocating for a More Relational and Dynamic Model of Participation for Child Researchers
Primary school children participating as researchers has become a moral obligation to meet the goal of children’s participation rights. Yet, critical voices rarely question the ethical and practical implications of turning young children into mini-clones of adult researchers. While enabling and constraining aspects of participatory methods and inherent power issues per se are widely discussed, adult researchers still seem to struggle to criticall…
Conceptualizing Youth Participation in Children’s Health Research
Given the power asymmetries between adults and young people, youth involvement in research is often at risk of tokenism. While many disciplines have seen a shift from conducting research on youth to conducting research with and for youth, engaging children and teens in research remains fraught with conceptual, methodological, and practical challenges. Arnstein's foundational Ladder of Participation has been adapted in novel ways in youth research…
Playing with Poetry
In this article, we undertake a methodological and creative exploration of poetic representation in children’s geographies. Drawing on qualitative approaches to poetry as a method, we consider how poetic techniques have the potential to bring us into children’s experiences in different ways and inspire more playful engagement with our research data more broadly. We present an illustrated series of research poems derived from our project on childr…
The importance of social capital for young People's active transport and independent mobility in rural Otago, New Zealand
Samoan children's sense of place
Pacific Island communities are experiencing significant societal changes as a result of rural urban, inter‐island migration and migration to New Zealand. These relocations have significant implications for children's relationship to place. However, virtually nothing is known about children's sense of place in Samoa or places and activities that are important to them. This exploratory study worked with eight children aged 5–12 years growing up in …
Pre-schoolers' transport imaginaries
Former Refugees' Therapeutic Landscapes in Dunedin, New Zealand
During resettlement in a new environment Former Refugees often face challenges for their physical, social and mental health and wellbeing such as past trauma, language and cultural differences. This article uses the therapeutic landscapes concept to explore how the physical, symbolic and social aspects of outdoor places in Dunedin, New Zealand, such as the beach and urban green spaces contribute to former refugees’ wellbeing during the resettleme…
Covid-19 in New Zealand and the Pacific
The experience of Covid-19 in Aotearoa New Zealand in 2020 has been strongly shaped by a narrative emanating from a robust partnership between politicians and public health experts. This narrative, as we illustrate in the sections below, treads a careful line between hard and soft responses. To elaborate, enacting policy such as closing borders and requiring ‘lockdown’ was swift and firm but was accompanied by an attempt to develop a disposition …
Walking with preschool-aged children to explore their local wellbeing affordances
An increasingly well-developed body of research uses neighbourhood walks to better understand primary school children's experiences of local environments, yet virtually nothing is known about preschool-aged children's connections to their neighbourhoods. A reason for this omission is the commonly held view that preschool children lack competency to reflect on lived environments beyond playgrounds, kindergartens, and other confined settings that d…
The braided river of health geography
‘Cognitive enhancers’
Qualitative work with students who use prescription medicines for academic purposes is limited. Thus, a more nuanced understanding of tertiary students’ experiences is urgently needed. Our study – which draws on five semi-structured interviews with New Zealand university students, complemented with information from local newspapers, blog entries and discussion forums – reveals students’ motivations and perceived effects, their risk perceptions an…
Identity, belonging and place attachment amongst Pacific Island children
This paper explores the intersection between place, culture and identity as evidenced through photographic narratives of Pacific Island children, based in Samoa and a diasporic community in New Zealand. The study was undertaken with 71 children aged 6–14 in Samoa (35) and New Zealand (36). A Talanoa/fa’afaletui (conversation-based) Pacific research approach was used to analyse 1285 children’s photos of ‘things that matter to them’. Most photos sh…
The other side of the story
Sociology (32 obras) · Psychology (22 obras) · Children's Rights and Participation (19 obras) · Geography (17 obras) · Political science (16 obras) · Gender Studies (12 obras) · Gender Studies (10 obras) · Social science (10 obras) · Medicine (9 obras) · Social Psychology (8 obras)