P Christensen
Biographic Data
| ID | 4209 |
|---|---|
| NAME | P Christensen |
| GIVEN NAMES | P |
| FAMILY NAME | Christensen |
| SIGNATURE | CHRISTENSEN P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Warwick |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9181-8638 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 232 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
I’m big, you’re small. I’m right, you’re wrong’: The multiple P/politics of ‘being young’ in new Sustainable Communities
This paper addresses the multiple politics of being young in new Sustainable Communities in the UK, places which were designed and built to foster active participation and inclusiveness. It is in this context that we uncover a series of rules and regulations which inhibit young people's participation in their communities. However, we also draw attention to young people's everyday politics which is broader and deeper than formal structures of part…
Weight loss decreases self-reported appetite and alters food preferences in overweight and obese adults: Observational data from the DiOGenes study
Mobilidades cotidianas das crianças: Combinando etnografia, GPS e tecnologias de telefone móvel em pesquisa
Este artigo discute o desenvolvimento de uma abordagem com métodos mistos para o estudo da mobilidade diária das crianças. O estudo aqui apresentado combinou pesquisa etnográfica com a tecnologia de GPS (Global Positioning System) e um questionário interativo que as crianças completaram via telefone celular. Esta metodologia permitiu produzir uma compreensão mais ampla dos movimentos cotidianos das crianças por meio de um rico conjunto de dados, …
‘Walking … just walking’: How children and young people's everyday pedestrian practices matter
This paper considers the importance of walking for many children and young people's everyday lives, experiences and friendships. Drawing upon research with 175 9- to 16-year-olds living in new urban developments in south-east England, we highlight key characteristics of (daily, taken-for-granted, ostensibly aimless) walking practices, which were of constitutive importance in children and young people's friendships, communities and geographies. Th…
There is Nothing Here for Us..!’ How Girls Create Meaningful Places of Their Own Through Movement
This article focuses on how girls create places of meaning and opportunity through collective movement. It is based on an ethnographic study of the everyday experiences and mobility of 10–13 year old girls living in a suburb of Copenhagen, Denmark. 1 The girls ventured for a sense of freedom and a ‘place of their own’ to pursue their interests and social relationships. For some girls the creation of places where they felt ‘at home’ would entail b…
Living on a building site: Young people’s experiences of emerging ‘Sustainable Communities’ in England
This paper examines experiences of young people (9–16) who live in new communities that are under construction. In the context of large-scale housing developments, built in England after 2000, it analyses various ways in which young people engage with life ‘on a building site’. From ethnographic research in three unfinished communities, several inter-linked themes became apparent: how young people engaged with building sites in both aesthetic and…
Children, Mobility, and Space: Using GPS and Mobile Phone Technologies in Ethnographic Research
This article discusses the potentials of a mixed methods approach to the study of children’s mobility patterns. The methodology presented here combined ethnographic fieldwork with global positioning system technology and an interactive questionnaire that children completed via mobile phone. This innovative methodology allowed the researchers to generate a rich understanding of children’s everyday movements. The study combined documentation of chi…
Talk, silence and the material world: Patterns of indirect communication among agricultural families in northern England
Is Children's Independent Mobility Really Independent? A Study of Children's Mobility Combining Ethnography and GPS/Mobile Phone Technologies1
This article proposes the need for a critical examination of the notion of children's ‘independent mobility’, a concept rather uncritically accepted by social science and human geography research. It examines the theoretical and conceptual underpinnings of the concept by drawing on data from a study of children's mobility in a suburban area of Copenhagen and two villages in Jutland, Denmark. The study combined ethnography with GPS‐tracking and a …
Jumping off and being careful: Children's Strategies of Risk Management in Everyday Life
This article addresses the complexity of children's risk landscapes through an ethnography of 10- to 12-year-old Danish children. The data revealed how children individually and collectively engaged with risk in their everyday activities. The children assessed risks in relation to their perceptions of their health as strength and control, negotiated the conditions of playing, and attuned their responses to situations of potential social and physi…
Er mere tid med familien løsningen? Hvad siger børn
Pia Haudrup Christensen: Children’s perception of time spent with the family This paper examines time spent with the family from children’s point of view. Since the 1960s notions of “quality time“ versus “quantity time“ have been employed to capture the everyday reality of working parents and their children. Some researchers have argued that parents should spend “more time“ together with their children and less time working, while others have sug…
Children's participation in ethnographic research: Issues of power and representation
The recognition of children's social agency and active participation in research has significantly changed children's position within the human and social sciences and led to a weakening of taken‐for‐granted assumptions found in more conventional approaches to child research. In order to hear the voices of children in the representation of their own lives it is important to employ research practices such as reflexivity and dialogue. These enable …
The health-promoting family: A Conceptual Framework for Future Research
Why more ‘quality time’ is not on the top of children's lists: The ‘qualities of time’ for children 1
For many years the everyday reality of working parents and their children has been captured in notions of ‘quality time’ versus ‘quantity time’. On the one hand it is suggested that what families need is ‘more time’ for parents to spend together with their children and less time working. On the other hand this has been countered with arguments saying that attention has to be paid to how parents spend their time together with their children. As a …
Working with Ethical Symmetry in Social Research with Children
The perspective of `children as social actors' has created a field with new ethical dilemmas and responsibilities for researchers within the social study of childhood. These concern, for example, the greater potential for conflicts of interest, often hitherto unrecognized, between children and other actors. It is suggested to work from a perspective of `ethical symmetry' in research relationships with children while taking into account the social…
Childhood and the Cultural Constitution of Vulnerable Bodies
This chapter is concerned with the cultural meanings of vulnerability in childhood. The implicit assumption of both research into and everyday practice around childhood is that children are vulnerable, and that during illness the child is particularly vulnerable and in need of adult care and therapy. Adults are therefore viewed as being in charge of, and having responsibility for, the child, and the child is positioned as the dependent and passiv…
Sårbare Kroppe: Om den sociale og kulturelle konstituering af børns sårbarhed
I et antropologisk studie, som jeg udførte i et lille lokalområde i Danmark, viste interaktioner mellem bøm og voksne og mellem bøm indbyrdes at basere sig på kulturelle opfattelser af barnet som en social person, af barnets krop og af sundhed og sygdom i barndommen. Disse opfattelser havde betydning for de sociale positioner, som bøm og voksne konventionelt indtog, når et bam kom til skade eller blev sygt. Et sygt bam blev betragtet som værende …
Depending on the Field: The Natural History of a Research Project
You Have Neither Neighbours Nor Privacy: Ambiguities in the Experience of Emotional Well Being of Women in Farming Families
This paper explores findings from an ethnographic study of relations of dependency within agricultural communities in the Northern region. Using a life course perspective it focuses on the cultural strategies which women draw upon to deal with the changing constraints, emotional stresses and loneliness of marrying into a farming family. Accounts from women occupying different generational positions demonstrate how they manage to achieve personal …
The social construction of help among Danish children: The Intentional Act and the Actual Content
This paper is based on an ethnographic study of younger Danish school children's actions and social relations during episodes of sickness and minor accidents. The focus is on how children as social actors give help to others. The main points concern first, the need for a cultural approach to distinguish between the intention and the motive of an action in order to understand children's evaluation of and communication about help. A second point co…
Faculty Development for Teacher Educators
Arends, Murphy and Christensen de scribe a long-range staff development project for teacher educators. Spon sored by the Maryland State Depart ment of Education and in cooperation with five higher education institutions, the project aimed at using research to improve teacher education. Over a two- year period, 28 higher education faculty participated in the project that included a series of research dissemination semi nars and two residential sta…
Working with Ethical Symmetry in Social Research with Children
The perspective of `children as social actors' has created a field with new ethical dilemmas and responsibilities for researchers within the social study of childhood. These concern, for example, the greater potential for conflicts of interest, often hitherto unrecognized, between children and other actors. It is suggested to work from a perspective of `ethical symmetry' in research relationships with children while taking into account the social…
Jumping off and being careful: Children's Strategies of Risk Management in Everyday Life
This article addresses the complexity of children's risk landscapes through an ethnography of 10- to 12-year-old Danish children. The data revealed how children individually and collectively engaged with risk in their everyday activities. The children assessed risks in relation to their perceptions of their health as strength and control, negotiated the conditions of playing, and attuned their responses to situations of potential social and physi…
The health-promoting family: A Conceptual Framework for Future Research
Is Children's Independent Mobility Really Independent? A Study of Children's Mobility Combining Ethnography and GPS/Mobile Phone Technologies1
This article proposes the need for a critical examination of the notion of children's ‘independent mobility’, a concept rather uncritically accepted by social science and human geography research. It examines the theoretical and conceptual underpinnings of the concept by drawing on data from a study of children's mobility in a suburban area of Copenhagen and two villages in Jutland, Denmark. The study combined ethnography with GPS‐tracking and a …
Children, Mobility, and Space: Using GPS and Mobile Phone Technologies in Ethnographic Research
This article discusses the potentials of a mixed methods approach to the study of children’s mobility patterns. The methodology presented here combined ethnographic fieldwork with global positioning system technology and an interactive questionnaire that children completed via mobile phone. This innovative methodology allowed the researchers to generate a rich understanding of children’s everyday movements. The study combined documentation of chi…
Living on a building site: Young people’s experiences of emerging ‘Sustainable Communities’ in England
This paper examines experiences of young people (9–16) who live in new communities that are under construction. In the context of large-scale housing developments, built in England after 2000, it analyses various ways in which young people engage with life ‘on a building site’. From ethnographic research in three unfinished communities, several inter-linked themes became apparent: how young people engaged with building sites in both aesthetic and…
I’m big, you’re small. I’m right, you’re wrong’: The multiple P/politics of ‘being young’ in new Sustainable Communities
This paper addresses the multiple politics of being young in new Sustainable Communities in the UK, places which were designed and built to foster active participation and inclusiveness. It is in this context that we uncover a series of rules and regulations which inhibit young people's participation in their communities. However, we also draw attention to young people's everyday politics which is broader and deeper than formal structures of part…
The social construction of help among Danish children: The Intentional Act and the Actual Content
This paper is based on an ethnographic study of younger Danish school children's actions and social relations during episodes of sickness and minor accidents. The focus is on how children as social actors give help to others. The main points concern first, the need for a cultural approach to distinguish between the intention and the motive of an action in order to understand children's evaluation of and communication about help. A second point co…
Weight loss decreases self-reported appetite and alters food preferences in overweight and obese adults: Observational data from the DiOGenes study
You Have Neither Neighbours Nor Privacy: Ambiguities in the Experience of Emotional Well Being of Women in Farming Families
This paper explores findings from an ethnographic study of relations of dependency within agricultural communities in the Northern region. Using a life course perspective it focuses on the cultural strategies which women draw upon to deal with the changing constraints, emotional stresses and loneliness of marrying into a farming family. Accounts from women occupying different generational positions demonstrate how they manage to achieve personal …
Mobilidades cotidianas das crianças: Combinando etnografia, GPS e tecnologias de telefone móvel em pesquisa
Este artigo discute o desenvolvimento de uma abordagem com métodos mistos para o estudo da mobilidade diária das crianças. O estudo aqui apresentado combinou pesquisa etnográfica com a tecnologia de GPS (Global Positioning System) e um questionário interativo que as crianças completaram via telefone celular. Esta metodologia permitiu produzir uma compreensão mais ampla dos movimentos cotidianos das crianças por meio de um rico conjunto de dados, …
Faculty Development for Teacher Educators
Arends, Murphy and Christensen de scribe a long-range staff development project for teacher educators. Spon sored by the Maryland State Depart ment of Education and in cooperation with five higher education institutions, the project aimed at using research to improve teacher education. Over a two- year period, 28 higher education faculty participated in the project that included a series of research dissemination semi nars and two residential sta…
The social construction of help among Danish children: The Intentional Act and the Actual Content
This paper is based on an ethnographic study of younger Danish school children's actions and social relations during episodes of sickness and minor accidents. The focus is on how children as social actors give help to others. The main points concern first, the need for a cultural approach to distinguish between the intention and the motive of an action in order to understand children's evaluation of and communication about help. A second point co…
Depending on the Field: The Natural History of a Research Project
You Have Neither Neighbours Nor Privacy: Ambiguities in the Experience of Emotional Well Being of Women in Farming Families
This paper explores findings from an ethnographic study of relations of dependency within agricultural communities in the Northern region. Using a life course perspective it focuses on the cultural strategies which women draw upon to deal with the changing constraints, emotional stresses and loneliness of marrying into a farming family. Accounts from women occupying different generational positions demonstrate how they manage to achieve personal …
Sårbare Kroppe: Om den sociale og kulturelle konstituering af børns sårbarhed
I et antropologisk studie, som jeg udførte i et lille lokalområde i Danmark, viste interaktioner mellem bøm og voksne og mellem bøm indbyrdes at basere sig på kulturelle opfattelser af barnet som en social person, af barnets krop og af sundhed og sygdom i barndommen. Disse opfattelser havde betydning for de sociale positioner, som bøm og voksne konventionelt indtog, når et bam kom til skade eller blev sygt. Et sygt bam blev betragtet som værende …
Childhood and the Cultural Constitution of Vulnerable Bodies
This chapter is concerned with the cultural meanings of vulnerability in childhood. The implicit assumption of both research into and everyday practice around childhood is that children are vulnerable, and that during illness the child is particularly vulnerable and in need of adult care and therapy. Adults are therefore viewed as being in charge of, and having responsibility for, the child, and the child is positioned as the dependent and passiv…
Why more ‘quality time’ is not on the top of children's lists: The ‘qualities of time’ for children 1
For many years the everyday reality of working parents and their children has been captured in notions of ‘quality time’ versus ‘quantity time’. On the one hand it is suggested that what families need is ‘more time’ for parents to spend together with their children and less time working. On the other hand this has been countered with arguments saying that attention has to be paid to how parents spend their time together with their children. As a …
Working with Ethical Symmetry in Social Research with Children
The perspective of `children as social actors' has created a field with new ethical dilemmas and responsibilities for researchers within the social study of childhood. These concern, for example, the greater potential for conflicts of interest, often hitherto unrecognized, between children and other actors. It is suggested to work from a perspective of `ethical symmetry' in research relationships with children while taking into account the social…
Children's participation in ethnographic research: Issues of power and representation
The recognition of children's social agency and active participation in research has significantly changed children's position within the human and social sciences and led to a weakening of taken‐for‐granted assumptions found in more conventional approaches to child research. In order to hear the voices of children in the representation of their own lives it is important to employ research practices such as reflexivity and dialogue. These enable …
The health-promoting family: A Conceptual Framework for Future Research
Er mere tid med familien løsningen? Hvad siger børn
Pia Haudrup Christensen: Children’s perception of time spent with the family This paper examines time spent with the family from children’s point of view. Since the 1960s notions of “quality time“ versus “quantity time“ have been employed to capture the everyday reality of working parents and their children. Some researchers have argued that parents should spend “more time“ together with their children and less time working, while others have sug…
Jumping off and being careful: Children's Strategies of Risk Management in Everyday Life
This article addresses the complexity of children's risk landscapes through an ethnography of 10- to 12-year-old Danish children. The data revealed how children individually and collectively engaged with risk in their everyday activities. The children assessed risks in relation to their perceptions of their health as strength and control, negotiated the conditions of playing, and attuned their responses to situations of potential social and physi…
Is Children's Independent Mobility Really Independent? A Study of Children's Mobility Combining Ethnography and GPS/Mobile Phone Technologies1
This article proposes the need for a critical examination of the notion of children's ‘independent mobility’, a concept rather uncritically accepted by social science and human geography research. It examines the theoretical and conceptual underpinnings of the concept by drawing on data from a study of children's mobility in a suburban area of Copenhagen and two villages in Jutland, Denmark. The study combined ethnography with GPS‐tracking and a …
Talk, silence and the material world: Patterns of indirect communication among agricultural families in northern England
Children, Mobility, and Space: Using GPS and Mobile Phone Technologies in Ethnographic Research
This article discusses the potentials of a mixed methods approach to the study of children’s mobility patterns. The methodology presented here combined ethnographic fieldwork with global positioning system technology and an interactive questionnaire that children completed via mobile phone. This innovative methodology allowed the researchers to generate a rich understanding of children’s everyday movements. The study combined documentation of chi…
‘Walking … just walking’: How children and young people's everyday pedestrian practices matter
This paper considers the importance of walking for many children and young people's everyday lives, experiences and friendships. Drawing upon research with 175 9- to 16-year-olds living in new urban developments in south-east England, we highlight key characteristics of (daily, taken-for-granted, ostensibly aimless) walking practices, which were of constitutive importance in children and young people's friendships, communities and geographies. Th…
There is Nothing Here for Us..!’ How Girls Create Meaningful Places of Their Own Through Movement
This article focuses on how girls create places of meaning and opportunity through collective movement. It is based on an ethnographic study of the everyday experiences and mobility of 10–13 year old girls living in a suburb of Copenhagen, Denmark. 1 The girls ventured for a sense of freedom and a ‘place of their own’ to pursue their interests and social relationships. For some girls the creation of places where they felt ‘at home’ would entail b…
Living on a building site: Young people’s experiences of emerging ‘Sustainable Communities’ in England
This paper examines experiences of young people (9–16) who live in new communities that are under construction. In the context of large-scale housing developments, built in England after 2000, it analyses various ways in which young people engage with life ‘on a building site’. From ethnographic research in three unfinished communities, several inter-linked themes became apparent: how young people engaged with building sites in both aesthetic and…
Mobilidades cotidianas das crianças: Combinando etnografia, GPS e tecnologias de telefone móvel em pesquisa
Este artigo discute o desenvolvimento de uma abordagem com métodos mistos para o estudo da mobilidade diária das crianças. O estudo aqui apresentado combinou pesquisa etnográfica com a tecnologia de GPS (Global Positioning System) e um questionário interativo que as crianças completaram via telefone celular. Esta metodologia permitiu produzir uma compreensão mais ampla dos movimentos cotidianos das crianças por meio de um rico conjunto de dados, …
Weight loss decreases self-reported appetite and alters food preferences in overweight and obese adults: Observational data from the DiOGenes study
I’m big, you’re small. I’m right, you’re wrong’: The multiple P/politics of ‘being young’ in new Sustainable Communities
This paper addresses the multiple politics of being young in new Sustainable Communities in the UK, places which were designed and built to foster active participation and inclusiveness. It is in this context that we uncover a series of rules and regulations which inhibit young people's participation in their communities. However, we also draw attention to young people's everyday politics which is broader and deeper than formal structures of part…
Sociology (16 works) · Psychology (13 works) · Children's Rights and Participation (11 works) · Political science (10 works) · Ethnography (9 works) · Early Childhood Education and Development (8 works) · Social science (8 works) · Gender Studies (7 works) · Everyday life (6 works) · Anthropology (5 works)