Being, becoming, belonging
Negotiating temporality, memory and identity in life story conversations with care-experienced children and young people
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21724371 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Eleanor Staples (0000-0001-7069-9003, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK, corresponding author), Debbie L Watson (0000-0001-5467-3604, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK), Katie Riches (0000-0001-5825-1513, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 23 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 41-57 |
| Publication date | 2024-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Qualitative Social Work (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1473-3250 • E-ISSN: 1741-3117 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/14733250231168605 |
| OpenAlex | W4362669672 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 23 |
This article uses Feminist New Materialist theoretical perspectives on time and temporality to critically explore the social work practice of life story work, designed to help children who are or have been in public care, or are adopted, assemble a coherent narrative of their care journey, adverse experiences and identity. Interview data presented here was produced with 17 participants (foster carers, adoptive parents and social work professionals in care or adoption teams) who were part of a project which sought to understand how aspects of life story work could be transformed into everyday care conversations between children and the adults who care for them (see www.difficultconversations.info ). Our analysis highlights the way participants understood and constructed temporal elements of children’s experiences and identities: their pasts, presents and futures, in the context of having conversations about care with them. Through the discussion, we indicate a need to loosen the configuration of children’s life stories and identities as ‘pre-care’ and ‘post-care’, and instead move toward an acceptance of children’s multiple selves and multiple important others as existing across time
Aesthetics · Epistemology · Everyday life · Linguistics · Narrative · Negotiation · Political science · Social science · Sociology · Temporality · Child Welfare and Adoption · Children's Rights and Participation · Gender Studies · Participatory Visual Research Methods · Psychology · Social Psychology · Social Work
Constructing and Reconstructing Childhood
Visual methodologies, sand and psychoanalysis
Troubling time/s and ecologies of nothingness
We need to understand what’s going on because it’s our life ’
Diffracting Diffraction
Untold Stories
Preserving and memorialising relationships
Adopters’ views on their children’s life story books
Why am I in care? A model for communicating with children about entry to care that promotes psychological safety and adjustment
Life story work with looked after and adopted children
Adopted children and young people's views on their life storybooks
Child Welfare Inequalities in a Time of Rising Numbers of Children Entering Out-of-Home Care
Troubling troubled school time
Using thematic analysis in psychology
Making the familiar strange
| Citations per year | 0.5 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2024 - 2024 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |