Nadia Von Benzon
Biographic Data
| ID | 1007704 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nadia Von Benzon |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nadia |
| FAMILY NAME | Von Benzon |
| SIGNATURE | VON BENZON N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Lancaster University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2009-5006 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 105 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
It's probably more about the people’: For a person‐centred approach to understanding benefits of nature‐based interventions
Numerous studies demonstrate the benefits of the role of nature, activities, and social interaction at nature‐based interventions in improving participants' wellbeing. These health‐enabling encounters between people and places have typically been framed in geography via the concept of therapeutic landscapes. Empirical studies and theory have primarily focused on the characteristics of physical and social environments of therapeutic landscapes, wh…
Am I Being Unreasonable' to use Mumsnet to explore historical geographies of childhood in domestic spaces
This paper addresses the potential for using childhood memories shared on social media as a means of interrogating experiences of twentieth-century social historical geographies of home and family life. In so doing, the paper discusses briefly the value of children’s perceptions as guests in others’ homes as an insightful source of data, before exploring the value of social media as a place for sharing these recollections and accessing them as a …
My doctor just called me a good girl and I died a bit inside: From everyday misogyny to obstetric violence in UK fertility and maternity services
This paper begins with the common phrase 'good girl' as a lens through which to explore the insidious nature of patronising and paternalistic language on women's agency in obstetric care. Here we see how misogynistic language is both violence against women in its own right, and serves to create a context in which more extreme obstetric violence can be precipitated. Based on thematic analysis of discussion on Mumsnet, and on contributions to a res…
Children for sail: British child migrants as colonial commodities
This paper addresses the historical geography of British child migration to New Zealand between 1949 and 1954; a period that marked the ‘beginning of the end’ of centuries of state-sanctioned emigration of unaccompanied, poor, British children. This particular child migration programme was executed under the dual motivations of boosting the New Zealand economy through population increase, whilst ‘rescuing’ British children living in poverty. This…
Unschooling motherhood: Caring and belonging in mothers’ time-space
For mothers, time is experienced in unique patterns reflecting mother-child relationships shaped by caring responsibilities and producing notions of belonging. The temporal and spatial rhythms of mothers’ lives are determined by interembodiment and co-presence; particularly apparent when offspring are infants and incapable of independent mobility and self-care. For most mothers these rhythms evolve as children grow and develop, with a particular …
The shops were only made for people who could walk: Impairment, barriers and autonomy in the mobility of adults with Cerebral Palsy in urban England
Based on research carried out with a group of adults with Cerebral Palsy in Birmingham, UK, we consider the complex inter-relationship between the accessibility of the urban environment for those with impaired gross motor skills, and the ability of these people to lead full and independent lives. Drawing on a framework that considers mobility as movement, meaning-making and political, we demonstrate the reality of differentiated mobility. For tho…
Intersectionality and Difference in Childhood and Youth: Global Perspectives
This book explores the alternative experiences of children and young people whose everyday lives contradict ideas and ideals of normalcy from the local to the global context. Presenting empirical research and conceptual interventions from a variety of international contexts, this book seeks to contribute to understandings of alterity, agency and everyday precarity. The young lives foregrounded in this volume include the experiences of transnation…
Informed consent and secondary data: Reflections on the use of mothers’ blogs in social media research
This paper seeks to extend debate on the use of blogs as qualitative data, specifically focusing on the issue of consent in research that uses publicly available but personal content. Typically the argument has been made for the need to protect individual writers and engage with these documents in a considered manner that recognises the inherent vulnerability of amateur authors. This paper will argue that a framing of these writers that foregroun…
Discussing Nature, ‘Doing’ Nature: For an emancipatory approach to conceptualizing young people's access to outdoor green space
Across the social sciences there is an extensive literature exploring the complex relationships between society and nature, increasingly concerned with, and critiquing, the notion of a unique relationship between children and green space. However, a nature/culture dichotomy remains central to socio-political discourse presenting a crisis of detachment. This nature/culture division can also be seen through practices surrounding children's access t…
Research relationships and responsibilities: Doing' research with 'vulnerable' participants: introduction to the special edition
For some decades now, human geography has sought to engage with the narratives of those deemed least powerful in society. This interest in the experiences of those who have traditionally been sidelined from political agendas has been part of move towards an increasingly critical approach to the social sciences, and ultimately as a way of using the academy as a tool for social justice. Researching the experiences of socially, politically and econo…
Confessions of an inadequate researcher: Space and Supervision in Research With Learning Disabled Children
Location is often at the fore of decision-making regarding fieldwork and choice of methods. However, little research has directly discussed the importance of the choice of site in the production of research data, particularly concerning the way that different relationships will manifest between researcher and participant in different spaces. Site may be particularly important in research with (learning disabled) children, as research location is …
Unruly children in unbounded spaces: School-based nature experiences for urban learning disabled young people in Greater Manchester, UK
Despite the absence of learning disabled young people from the policy and academic literature, research indicates that they are minority groups amongst countryside visitors and rural leisure seekers (Countryside Agency, 2005; Defra, 2011). It is likely therefore, that disabled children, including learning disabled young people, are particularly marginalised as a result of their intersecting identity as both children and disabled people. A variety…
I fell out of a tree and broke my neck’: Acknowledging fantasy in children's research contributions
Creative and increasingly playful methods are now widespread in geographical research with children. These methods, encouraging imagination and fun, may illicit fantastical responses from children. However, ‘untruths’ in research contributions continue to be considered reflective of failures in the research process. By ignoring untrue contributions we risk losing valuable data and silencing one form of children’s voices. This paper calls for cons…
Young people making it work: Continuity and change in rural places
Young People Making it Work presents a new addition to the developing field of interest in rural life experiences in children's geographies. The book is concerned with the way that rural Australian
Moving on from ramps? The utility of the social model of disability for facilitating experiences of nature for disabled children
Experiences of nature have been shown to be beneficial for disabled children; however, opportunities for disabled children to experience nature are often limited. The social model of disability may provide a theoretical base for increasing access to nature for pupils at Special Educational Needs (SEN) schools. Using results from interviews conducted with teachers from seven SEN schools, considered alongside responses from interviews with staff fr…
Research relationships and responsibilities: Doing' research with 'vulnerable' participants: introduction to the special edition
For some decades now, human geography has sought to engage with the narratives of those deemed least powerful in society. This interest in the experiences of those who have traditionally been sidelined from political agendas has been part of move towards an increasingly critical approach to the social sciences, and ultimately as a way of using the academy as a tool for social justice. Researching the experiences of socially, politically and econo…
Confessions of an inadequate researcher: Space and Supervision in Research With Learning Disabled Children
Location is often at the fore of decision-making regarding fieldwork and choice of methods. However, little research has directly discussed the importance of the choice of site in the production of research data, particularly concerning the way that different relationships will manifest between researcher and participant in different spaces. Site may be particularly important in research with (learning disabled) children, as research location is …
I fell out of a tree and broke my neck’: Acknowledging fantasy in children's research contributions
Creative and increasingly playful methods are now widespread in geographical research with children. These methods, encouraging imagination and fun, may illicit fantastical responses from children. However, ‘untruths’ in research contributions continue to be considered reflective of failures in the research process. By ignoring untrue contributions we risk losing valuable data and silencing one form of children’s voices. This paper calls for cons…
Informed consent and secondary data: Reflections on the use of mothers’ blogs in social media research
This paper seeks to extend debate on the use of blogs as qualitative data, specifically focusing on the issue of consent in research that uses publicly available but personal content. Typically the argument has been made for the need to protect individual writers and engage with these documents in a considered manner that recognises the inherent vulnerability of amateur authors. This paper will argue that a framing of these writers that foregroun…
Young people making it work: Continuity and change in rural places
Young People Making it Work presents a new addition to the developing field of interest in rural life experiences in children's geographies. The book is concerned with the way that rural Australian
My doctor just called me a good girl and I died a bit inside: From everyday misogyny to obstetric violence in UK fertility and maternity services
This paper begins with the common phrase 'good girl' as a lens through which to explore the insidious nature of patronising and paternalistic language on women's agency in obstetric care. Here we see how misogynistic language is both violence against women in its own right, and serves to create a context in which more extreme obstetric violence can be precipitated. Based on thematic analysis of discussion on Mumsnet, and on contributions to a res…
Unschooling motherhood: Caring and belonging in mothers’ time-space
For mothers, time is experienced in unique patterns reflecting mother-child relationships shaped by caring responsibilities and producing notions of belonging. The temporal and spatial rhythms of mothers’ lives are determined by interembodiment and co-presence; particularly apparent when offspring are infants and incapable of independent mobility and self-care. For most mothers these rhythms evolve as children grow and develop, with a particular …
Unruly children in unbounded spaces: School-based nature experiences for urban learning disabled young people in Greater Manchester, UK
Despite the absence of learning disabled young people from the policy and academic literature, research indicates that they are minority groups amongst countryside visitors and rural leisure seekers (Countryside Agency, 2005; Defra, 2011). It is likely therefore, that disabled children, including learning disabled young people, are particularly marginalised as a result of their intersecting identity as both children and disabled people. A variety…
The shops were only made for people who could walk: Impairment, barriers and autonomy in the mobility of adults with Cerebral Palsy in urban England
Based on research carried out with a group of adults with Cerebral Palsy in Birmingham, UK, we consider the complex inter-relationship between the accessibility of the urban environment for those with impaired gross motor skills, and the ability of these people to lead full and independent lives. Drawing on a framework that considers mobility as movement, meaning-making and political, we demonstrate the reality of differentiated mobility. For tho…
Discussing Nature, ‘Doing’ Nature: For an emancipatory approach to conceptualizing young people's access to outdoor green space
Across the social sciences there is an extensive literature exploring the complex relationships between society and nature, increasingly concerned with, and critiquing, the notion of a unique relationship between children and green space. However, a nature/culture dichotomy remains central to socio-political discourse presenting a crisis of detachment. This nature/culture division can also be seen through practices surrounding children's access t…
Moving on from ramps? The utility of the social model of disability for facilitating experiences of nature for disabled children
Experiences of nature have been shown to be beneficial for disabled children; however, opportunities for disabled children to experience nature are often limited. The social model of disability may provide a theoretical base for increasing access to nature for pupils at Special Educational Needs (SEN) schools. Using results from interviews conducted with teachers from seven SEN schools, considered alongside responses from interviews with staff fr…
It's probably more about the people’: For a person‐centred approach to understanding benefits of nature‐based interventions
Numerous studies demonstrate the benefits of the role of nature, activities, and social interaction at nature‐based interventions in improving participants' wellbeing. These health‐enabling encounters between people and places have typically been framed in geography via the concept of therapeutic landscapes. Empirical studies and theory have primarily focused on the characteristics of physical and social environments of therapeutic landscapes, wh…
Am I Being Unreasonable' to use Mumsnet to explore historical geographies of childhood in domestic spaces
This paper addresses the potential for using childhood memories shared on social media as a means of interrogating experiences of twentieth-century social historical geographies of home and family life. In so doing, the paper discusses briefly the value of children’s perceptions as guests in others’ homes as an insightful source of data, before exploring the value of social media as a place for sharing these recollections and accessing them as a …
Children for sail: British child migrants as colonial commodities
This paper addresses the historical geography of British child migration to New Zealand between 1949 and 1954; a period that marked the ‘beginning of the end’ of centuries of state-sanctioned emigration of unaccompanied, poor, British children. This particular child migration programme was executed under the dual motivations of boosting the New Zealand economy through population increase, whilst ‘rescuing’ British children living in poverty. This…
Moving on from ramps? The utility of the social model of disability for facilitating experiences of nature for disabled children
Experiences of nature have been shown to be beneficial for disabled children; however, opportunities for disabled children to experience nature are often limited. The social model of disability may provide a theoretical base for increasing access to nature for pupils at Special Educational Needs (SEN) schools. Using results from interviews conducted with teachers from seven SEN schools, considered alongside responses from interviews with staff fr…
I fell out of a tree and broke my neck’: Acknowledging fantasy in children's research contributions
Creative and increasingly playful methods are now widespread in geographical research with children. These methods, encouraging imagination and fun, may illicit fantastical responses from children. However, ‘untruths’ in research contributions continue to be considered reflective of failures in the research process. By ignoring untrue contributions we risk losing valuable data and silencing one form of children’s voices. This paper calls for cons…
Young people making it work: Continuity and change in rural places
Young People Making it Work presents a new addition to the developing field of interest in rural life experiences in children's geographies. The book is concerned with the way that rural Australian
Unruly children in unbounded spaces: School-based nature experiences for urban learning disabled young people in Greater Manchester, UK
Despite the absence of learning disabled young people from the policy and academic literature, research indicates that they are minority groups amongst countryside visitors and rural leisure seekers (Countryside Agency, 2005; Defra, 2011). It is likely therefore, that disabled children, including learning disabled young people, are particularly marginalised as a result of their intersecting identity as both children and disabled people. A variety…
Research relationships and responsibilities: Doing' research with 'vulnerable' participants: introduction to the special edition
For some decades now, human geography has sought to engage with the narratives of those deemed least powerful in society. This interest in the experiences of those who have traditionally been sidelined from political agendas has been part of move towards an increasingly critical approach to the social sciences, and ultimately as a way of using the academy as a tool for social justice. Researching the experiences of socially, politically and econo…
Confessions of an inadequate researcher: Space and Supervision in Research With Learning Disabled Children
Location is often at the fore of decision-making regarding fieldwork and choice of methods. However, little research has directly discussed the importance of the choice of site in the production of research data, particularly concerning the way that different relationships will manifest between researcher and participant in different spaces. Site may be particularly important in research with (learning disabled) children, as research location is …
Discussing Nature, ‘Doing’ Nature: For an emancipatory approach to conceptualizing young people's access to outdoor green space
Across the social sciences there is an extensive literature exploring the complex relationships between society and nature, increasingly concerned with, and critiquing, the notion of a unique relationship between children and green space. However, a nature/culture dichotomy remains central to socio-political discourse presenting a crisis of detachment. This nature/culture division can also be seen through practices surrounding children's access t…
Intersectionality and Difference in Childhood and Youth: Global Perspectives
This book explores the alternative experiences of children and young people whose everyday lives contradict ideas and ideals of normalcy from the local to the global context. Presenting empirical research and conceptual interventions from a variety of international contexts, this book seeks to contribute to understandings of alterity, agency and everyday precarity. The young lives foregrounded in this volume include the experiences of transnation…
Informed consent and secondary data: Reflections on the use of mothers’ blogs in social media research
This paper seeks to extend debate on the use of blogs as qualitative data, specifically focusing on the issue of consent in research that uses publicly available but personal content. Typically the argument has been made for the need to protect individual writers and engage with these documents in a considered manner that recognises the inherent vulnerability of amateur authors. This paper will argue that a framing of these writers that foregroun…
Unschooling motherhood: Caring and belonging in mothers’ time-space
For mothers, time is experienced in unique patterns reflecting mother-child relationships shaped by caring responsibilities and producing notions of belonging. The temporal and spatial rhythms of mothers’ lives are determined by interembodiment and co-presence; particularly apparent when offspring are infants and incapable of independent mobility and self-care. For most mothers these rhythms evolve as children grow and develop, with a particular …
The shops were only made for people who could walk: Impairment, barriers and autonomy in the mobility of adults with Cerebral Palsy in urban England
Based on research carried out with a group of adults with Cerebral Palsy in Birmingham, UK, we consider the complex inter-relationship between the accessibility of the urban environment for those with impaired gross motor skills, and the ability of these people to lead full and independent lives. Drawing on a framework that considers mobility as movement, meaning-making and political, we demonstrate the reality of differentiated mobility. For tho…
Children for sail: British child migrants as colonial commodities
This paper addresses the historical geography of British child migration to New Zealand between 1949 and 1954; a period that marked the ‘beginning of the end’ of centuries of state-sanctioned emigration of unaccompanied, poor, British children. This particular child migration programme was executed under the dual motivations of boosting the New Zealand economy through population increase, whilst ‘rescuing’ British children living in poverty. This…
It's probably more about the people’: For a person‐centred approach to understanding benefits of nature‐based interventions
Numerous studies demonstrate the benefits of the role of nature, activities, and social interaction at nature‐based interventions in improving participants' wellbeing. These health‐enabling encounters between people and places have typically been framed in geography via the concept of therapeutic landscapes. Empirical studies and theory have primarily focused on the characteristics of physical and social environments of therapeutic landscapes, wh…
Am I Being Unreasonable' to use Mumsnet to explore historical geographies of childhood in domestic spaces
This paper addresses the potential for using childhood memories shared on social media as a means of interrogating experiences of twentieth-century social historical geographies of home and family life. In so doing, the paper discusses briefly the value of children’s perceptions as guests in others’ homes as an insightful source of data, before exploring the value of social media as a place for sharing these recollections and accessing them as a …
My doctor just called me a good girl and I died a bit inside: From everyday misogyny to obstetric violence in UK fertility and maternity services
This paper begins with the common phrase 'good girl' as a lens through which to explore the insidious nature of patronising and paternalistic language on women's agency in obstetric care. Here we see how misogynistic language is both violence against women in its own right, and serves to create a context in which more extreme obstetric violence can be precipitated. Based on thematic analysis of discussion on Mumsnet, and on contributions to a res…
Sociology (14 works) · Children's Rights and Participation (9 works) · Psychology (9 works) · Political science (8 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Social science (5 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Rural development and sustainability (4 works)