Children's imaginaries in the city
On things and materials
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12710894 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Raluca Soreanu (0000-0002-4380-9868, Birkbeck, University of London, corresponding author), Iulia Hurducaș (University of Sheffield) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 14 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 422-436 |
| Publication date | 2015-10-28 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Children s Geographies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1473-3277 • E-ISSN: 1473-3285 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/14733285.2015.1101749 |
| OpenAlex | W2247422906 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 30 |
The article is an exploration of urban imaginaries emerging through a play with materials. Starting from a complex activist exercise for reimagining the space of a park in decay, whose protagonists are children, we propose a reflection on the productivity and resilience of matter. We argue that a new materialist sociology is one that takes disappearances seriously. Capitalism renders space abstract not only through flow and circulation, but also through stillness. We follow the curious disappearances and reappearances of the park in question, tracing the mutations of urban planning, of the juridical domain and of the everyday use of space. Finally, we analyse the making of a maquette of the park by a group of children and their alliances with activists. The maquette is a political ‘thing': it leads us away from an urban imaginary populated by discrete objects to an urban imaginary of depth and it reconcretises space
Aesthetics · Art · Capitalism · Epistemology · Materialism · Political science · Politics · Psychoanalysis · Reflection (computer programming · Sociology · The Imaginary · Children's Rights and Participation · Computer Science · French Urban and Social Studies · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Law · Philosophy · Psychology
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| Citations per year | 0.5 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2016 - 2023 (8) |
| Highly cited | No |