Danielle Ekman Ladru
Biographic Data
| ID | 940725 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Danielle Ekman Ladru |
| GIVEN NAMES | Danielle Ekman |
| FAMILY NAME | Ladru |
| SIGNATURE | LADRU D E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Stockholm University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0892-5836 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 33 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Squeezing the Distance. Time-Spatial organization and negotiation of families’ everyday mobility in remote rural settings in the Swedish north
This paper focuses on how families living in remote, and highly car dependent, rural areas in Sweden cope with increasing fuel prices. Using qualitative methods including interviews, home visits and mobile methods such as walks and car drives, we show how families are changing how they organize their everyday lives through engaging in a much more rigid planning of family life in time and space, and by using mobile strategies. This involves family…
‘No one wants to say no to housing. But where do we fit in the children?’ Swedish city planners’ perspectives on the struggle to secure outdoor space for preschools in the dense city
Stockholm is currently undergoing intense densification. Using interviews, this article discusses planners’ perspectives on the challenges this brings for trying to secure space for preschools in the municipal land use allocation. We show how these planners take on the role of childhood rights activists, but that this does not have much, or any, effect on the planning outcome. We argue that the planning process seems to prioritize maximizing land…
Nation, nature and childhood in five curricula: Towards Earthly education
This article explores the relations between nation, nature and childhood in five early childhood education curricula in the Nordic, post-socialist and settler-colonial states with the focus on the role education plays in the face of the climate crisis. The authors identify three interconnecting themes in which nation, nature and childhood are entangled in these curricula: 1) national nature as an object of learning; 2) nature and home/birth land …
Teaching nature and nation in the Swedish mobile preschool
Ideas of nature, nation and childhood are intertwined in Nordic early childhood education. We explore in ethnographic data the ways nature is taught in Swedish mobile preschools. We show how everyday nationalism manifests in the teaching practices of 'good' pedagogy in nature. We argue that depending on who is teaching and learning, various constructions of nationhood emerge enabling the re-imagination of a single national imaginary to a plural o…
Cracks in the well-plastered façade of the Nordic model: Reflections on inequalities in housing and mobility in (post-)coronavirus pandemic Sweden
In this paper, Sweden's situation in and response to the COVID-19 pandemic is discussed. Through examples of overcrowding and public transport, we argue that the pandemic has revealed, and risks reaffirming, existing aged, gendered, ethnic and socioeconomic inequalities in the housing market, and in relation to mobility and transport. The paper seeks to explore how the large scale and widespread housing segregation in Sweden contributes to the un…
Children living in pandemic times: A geographical, transnational and situated view
The aim of this editorial to the Viewpoints Special Issue on ‘Children Living in pandemic Times: a geographical, transnational and situated view’ is, on the one hand, to present a transnational general picture of the COVID-19 situation for children. And on the other, to make a call for childhood researchers particularly focused on children's geographies, to collaboratively approach this unprecedented situation. The main aspects of children living…
Children’s prosthetic citizenship as ‘here-and-now’, ‘not-yet’ and ‘not-here’. the case of the mobile preschool
Using the case of the mobile preschool we focus on how children’s prosthetic citizenship is constructed in relation to notions of mobility and place in the accounts of Swedish mobile preschool professionals. Mobile preschools are preschools in buses that visit different places in and around the city on an everyday basis. Analysis of interviews and workshop discussions with mobile preschool professionals shows how three different conceptualisation…
Children’s socialization into the mobile preschool: A priming event collectively performed by novice children, ‘old-timers’, and pedagogues
Using video-ethnographic data from a ‘try-on day’ in a bus-based mobile preschool, we discuss how children with different levels of experience collaborate with one another and with pedagogues to socialize newcomers into an ongoing community. Analyses show how pedagogues create moments of collective orientation and, besides through verbal instructions, invite newcomers to participate in core activities with older children. The novices engage in th…
Children’s education in ‘good’ nature: Perceptions of activities in nature spaces in mobile preschools
In the Nordic countries, there is a culturally rooted understanding of nature as a ‘good’ place for children. The aim of the article is to deconstruct this understanding by exploring how different mobile preschools – buses that bring children to different places on a daily basis – relate to nature spaces and children’s learning and well-being in them. Based on critical theorization of place and the nature/culture divide, we argue that, while ther…
Children's collective embodiment—Mobility practices and materialities in mobile preschools
This article looks at young children's mobility practices in public spaces within the context of a mobile preschool practice (i.e., a preschool in a bus), with a specific focus on how materialities matter in children's mobilities. Using ethnographic data from a mobile preschool, we argue that the mobile preschool group's mobility should be understood in terms of collective embodiment and the mobile preschool should be viewed as a moving collectiv…
Being on the move’: Time-spatial organisation and mobility in a mobile preschool
Children living in pandemic times: A geographical, transnational and situated view
The aim of this editorial to the Viewpoints Special Issue on ‘Children Living in pandemic Times: a geographical, transnational and situated view’ is, on the one hand, to present a transnational general picture of the COVID-19 situation for children. And on the other, to make a call for childhood researchers particularly focused on children's geographies, to collaboratively approach this unprecedented situation. The main aspects of children living…
Being on the move’: Time-spatial organisation and mobility in a mobile preschool
Children’s prosthetic citizenship as ‘here-and-now’, ‘not-yet’ and ‘not-here’. the case of the mobile preschool
Using the case of the mobile preschool we focus on how children’s prosthetic citizenship is constructed in relation to notions of mobility and place in the accounts of Swedish mobile preschool professionals. Mobile preschools are preschools in buses that visit different places in and around the city on an everyday basis. Analysis of interviews and workshop discussions with mobile preschool professionals shows how three different conceptualisation…
Children’s education in ‘good’ nature: Perceptions of activities in nature spaces in mobile preschools
In the Nordic countries, there is a culturally rooted understanding of nature as a ‘good’ place for children. The aim of the article is to deconstruct this understanding by exploring how different mobile preschools – buses that bring children to different places on a daily basis – relate to nature spaces and children’s learning and well-being in them. Based on critical theorization of place and the nature/culture divide, we argue that, while ther…
Teaching nature and nation in the Swedish mobile preschool
Ideas of nature, nation and childhood are intertwined in Nordic early childhood education. We explore in ethnographic data the ways nature is taught in Swedish mobile preschools. We show how everyday nationalism manifests in the teaching practices of 'good' pedagogy in nature. We argue that depending on who is teaching and learning, various constructions of nationhood emerge enabling the re-imagination of a single national imaginary to a plural o…
Cracks in the well-plastered façade of the Nordic model: Reflections on inequalities in housing and mobility in (post-)coronavirus pandemic Sweden
In this paper, Sweden's situation in and response to the COVID-19 pandemic is discussed. Through examples of overcrowding and public transport, we argue that the pandemic has revealed, and risks reaffirming, existing aged, gendered, ethnic and socioeconomic inequalities in the housing market, and in relation to mobility and transport. The paper seeks to explore how the large scale and widespread housing segregation in Sweden contributes to the un…
Children's collective embodiment—Mobility practices and materialities in mobile preschools
This article looks at young children's mobility practices in public spaces within the context of a mobile preschool practice (i.e., a preschool in a bus), with a specific focus on how materialities matter in children's mobilities. Using ethnographic data from a mobile preschool, we argue that the mobile preschool group's mobility should be understood in terms of collective embodiment and the mobile preschool should be viewed as a moving collectiv…
Being on the move’: Time-spatial organisation and mobility in a mobile preschool
Children’s socialization into the mobile preschool: A priming event collectively performed by novice children, ‘old-timers’, and pedagogues
Using video-ethnographic data from a ‘try-on day’ in a bus-based mobile preschool, we discuss how children with different levels of experience collaborate with one another and with pedagogues to socialize newcomers into an ongoing community. Analyses show how pedagogues create moments of collective orientation and, besides through verbal instructions, invite newcomers to participate in core activities with older children. The novices engage in th…
Children’s education in ‘good’ nature: Perceptions of activities in nature spaces in mobile preschools
In the Nordic countries, there is a culturally rooted understanding of nature as a ‘good’ place for children. The aim of the article is to deconstruct this understanding by exploring how different mobile preschools – buses that bring children to different places on a daily basis – relate to nature spaces and children’s learning and well-being in them. Based on critical theorization of place and the nature/culture divide, we argue that, while ther…
Children's collective embodiment—Mobility practices and materialities in mobile preschools
This article looks at young children's mobility practices in public spaces within the context of a mobile preschool practice (i.e., a preschool in a bus), with a specific focus on how materialities matter in children's mobilities. Using ethnographic data from a mobile preschool, we argue that the mobile preschool group's mobility should be understood in terms of collective embodiment and the mobile preschool should be viewed as a moving collectiv…
Cracks in the well-plastered façade of the Nordic model: Reflections on inequalities in housing and mobility in (post-)coronavirus pandemic Sweden
In this paper, Sweden's situation in and response to the COVID-19 pandemic is discussed. Through examples of overcrowding and public transport, we argue that the pandemic has revealed, and risks reaffirming, existing aged, gendered, ethnic and socioeconomic inequalities in the housing market, and in relation to mobility and transport. The paper seeks to explore how the large scale and widespread housing segregation in Sweden contributes to the un…
Children living in pandemic times: A geographical, transnational and situated view
The aim of this editorial to the Viewpoints Special Issue on ‘Children Living in pandemic Times: a geographical, transnational and situated view’ is, on the one hand, to present a transnational general picture of the COVID-19 situation for children. And on the other, to make a call for childhood researchers particularly focused on children's geographies, to collaboratively approach this unprecedented situation. The main aspects of children living…
Children’s prosthetic citizenship as ‘here-and-now’, ‘not-yet’ and ‘not-here’. the case of the mobile preschool
Using the case of the mobile preschool we focus on how children’s prosthetic citizenship is constructed in relation to notions of mobility and place in the accounts of Swedish mobile preschool professionals. Mobile preschools are preschools in buses that visit different places in and around the city on an everyday basis. Analysis of interviews and workshop discussions with mobile preschool professionals shows how three different conceptualisation…
Teaching nature and nation in the Swedish mobile preschool
Ideas of nature, nation and childhood are intertwined in Nordic early childhood education. We explore in ethnographic data the ways nature is taught in Swedish mobile preschools. We show how everyday nationalism manifests in the teaching practices of 'good' pedagogy in nature. We argue that depending on who is teaching and learning, various constructions of nationhood emerge enabling the re-imagination of a single national imaginary to a plural o…
‘No one wants to say no to housing. But where do we fit in the children?’ Swedish city planners’ perspectives on the struggle to secure outdoor space for preschools in the dense city
Stockholm is currently undergoing intense densification. Using interviews, this article discusses planners’ perspectives on the challenges this brings for trying to secure space for preschools in the municipal land use allocation. We show how these planners take on the role of childhood rights activists, but that this does not have much, or any, effect on the planning outcome. We argue that the planning process seems to prioritize maximizing land…
Nation, nature and childhood in five curricula: Towards Earthly education
This article explores the relations between nation, nature and childhood in five early childhood education curricula in the Nordic, post-socialist and settler-colonial states with the focus on the role education plays in the face of the climate crisis. The authors identify three interconnecting themes in which nation, nature and childhood are entangled in these curricula: 1) national nature as an object of learning; 2) nature and home/birth land …
Squeezing the Distance. Time-Spatial organization and negotiation of families’ everyday mobility in remote rural settings in the Swedish north
This paper focuses on how families living in remote, and highly car dependent, rural areas in Sweden cope with increasing fuel prices. Using qualitative methods including interviews, home visits and mobile methods such as walks and car drives, we show how families are changing how they organize their everyday lives through engaging in a much more rigid planning of family life in time and space, and by using mobile strategies. This involves family…
Sociology (9 works) · Children's Rights and Participation (8 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Early Childhood Education and Development (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Geography (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Agency (philosophy (3 works)