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Having my own room would be really cool

Children's rooms as the social and material organizing of siblings

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ID2391095
AuthorsCharlotte Palludan (Aarhus University, corresponding author), Ida Wentzel Winther (0000-0002-6060-2148, Aarhus University)
Year2017
Volume22
Issue1
Pages34-50
Publication date2017-03-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Material Culture (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1359-1835 • E-ISSN: 1460-3586
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/1359183516662675
OpenAlexW2515139849
LanguageEN
Citations received15
References cited14

In this article, the authors examine how materiality can be understood as a co-creator and significant carrier of social processes. They focus on the ways children in large sibling groups relate to bedrooms and identify the logics at play when the organizing of children's bedrooms and siblings are interwoven. Children have dreams and expectations of establishing a space by way of having their own room and stuff, and they implement this desire for ownership through specific strategies to obtain material presence and leave territorial marks, which afford them positioning and recognition within sibling relations and families. The authors' analysis clearly shows that children gain material weight across households with varying material resources and different socio-cultural views on how to allocate these resources. It also shows that processes surrounding the material constitution of siblingships are embedded in a child-focused society with strong cultural norms about what constitutes a good life for children

Aesthetics · Art · Constitution · Linguistics · Materiality (auditing · Political science · Sibling · Sociology · Anthropology · Children's Rights and Participation · Early Childhood Education and Development · Law · Psychology · Rural development and sustainability · Social Psychology

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Citations per year2,5
Citation span2020 - 2026 (7)
Citation velocitycurrent
Highly citedNo
Citation typesNeutral: 14

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