Collective life
Parents, Playground Encounters and the Multicultural City
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3977855 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Harold Fisher Wilson (0000-0002-5154-0467, University of Manchester, corresponding author), Helen F Wilson |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 14 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 625-648 |
| Publication date | 2013-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Social & Cultural Geography (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1464-9365 • E-ISSN: 1470-1197 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/14649365.2013.800220 |
| OpenAlex | W1977505401 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 59 |
| References cited | 77 |
For parents, the school playground is a site of daily intermingling—an important and yet often overlooked site of sociality. Yet whilst it is a space where common needs and experiences are shared, and where friendships and subtle gestures of familiarity are formed, it is also a site of ‘panoptic force’, where on-going conflicts over class, religion, race and competing interpretations of morality are played out and reinforced. This paper focuses on an ethnographic account of an urban multicultural primary school in Birmingham, UK, to argue that the playground, as a prosaic space of urban encounter, can open up a new set of discussions around segregation and the everyday (dis)assemblies of collective life. Attending to both the routines of daily school life and the work of a voluntary Parents Group that aims to address the challenges of living with difference, the paper details the fragile associations, friendships and mechanisms for social learning that develop within the prosaic spaces of the playground. As such, the paper (re)positions the playground as a site of productive sociality, ongoing negotiation and incremental change, which can work to counter anxieties around cultural diversity and challenge wider concerns about the state of contemporary multiculturalism
Aesthetics · Diversity (politics · Ethnography · Everyday life · Gesture · Multiculturalism · Negotiation · Panopticon · Pedagogy · Political science · Social science · Sociality · Sociology · Anthropology · Children's Rights and Participation · Critical Race Theory in Education · Gender Studies · Global Education and Multiculturalism · Law
Becoming cosmopolitan
From Middle Ground to Common Ground
Friendship, Geographies of
The Space and Power of Young People's Social Relationships
Playground of Resistance
How far I’ll go
Daily routines, activity space, and third places
Belonging and becoming in the city and the countryside
How children and adults challenge each other’s performances of everyday cosmopolitanism
Child’s presence shapes immigrant women’s experiences of everyday intergroup contact
Urban encounters
Racism and Anti‐Racism in Families
Talk on the Playground
Muddy knees and muddy needs
The public playground paradox
It's an ordinary matter’
Conviviality in everyday multiculturalism
Neighbourhood organization as a way of addressing vulnerability
Immigrant parents’ everyday encounters with exclusion and public space mobilities
The more diverse the better
Enabling border policing through socialisation at the playground
From Big Society to Shared Society? Geographies of social cohesion and encounter in the UK’s National Citizen Service
Questions of agency
Everyday austerity
Social housing as a social infrastructure
Performing conviviality in diverse and precarious urban spaces
Social infrastructures and socio-economic vulnerability
Keeping Apart on the Playground
Inclusion, belonging and intercultural spaces
Encounters with difference in the subdivided house
Migrant-led diversification and differential inclusion in arrival cities across Asia and the Pacific
Encounters with diversity
Arrival cities and the mobility of concepts
Encountering Difference in the Workplace
Choreographing the rhythms of encounter in Singapore's maid agencies
Learning to think differently
Connectedness and collectiveness amid islands of hope and trouble
Social infrastructure and public life – notes on Finsbury Park, London
On geography and encounter
The Possibilities of Tolerance
Purging the nation
Multiculturalism, interculturalism, ‘multiculture’ and super-diversity
Experiences of culture and cultural negotiations among Russian-speaking migrants
An urban laboratory for the multicultural nation
Beyond child's play
Social infrastructure and the public life of cities
Living with difference in hyper-diverse areas
Together apart' or 'apart together'? - middle-class parents' choice of playgrounds and playground interactions in socially diverse neighbourhoods
In the contact zone
Intimate encounters
Lost in the 'churn'? Locating neighbourliness in a transient neighbourhood
Beyond openness and prejudice
Defining dreams
The dis/comfort of white British nationhood
Pluralising the walking interview
Children's Centres as spaces of interethnic encounter in North East England
Beggaring belonging in Africa's no-man's lands
On the Paradox of 'Organised' Encounter
Community and Conviviality? Informal Social Life in Multicultural Places
Building the Big Society
Everyday Cosmopolitanism and the Labour of Intercultural Community
'Sleepwalking to segregation'?Challenging myths about race and migration
Contested Bodies of Childhood and Youth
Powers of Freedom
Children's Geographies
Agitating the Powers of Habit
Territorialising’ the primary school playground
The politics of aspiration
New hierarchies of belonging
Collective culture and urban public space
Northern Ireland’s integrated schools enabling inclusion
Introduction
The impacts of a school closure on neighbourhood social cohesion
Working class mothers and school life
Practical orientalism – bodies, everyday life and the construction of otherness
Childhood and the politics of scale
Geographies of friendships
The New Maternal State
Interpreting Racial Formation and Multiculturalism in a High School
Neoliberalism, policy localisation and idealised subjects
Multicultural learning
Finding common ground? Spaces of dialogue and the negotiation of Indigenous interests in environmental campaigns in Australia
Learning to think differently
Giving space
There Is No “Race” in the Schoolyard
Materialising bodily matter
Moving cities
Geography and ethics
From Community Cohesion to Mobile Solidarities
A moral economy of whiteness
Negotiating the Geographies of Cultural Difference in Local Communities
Qualitative methods
Embodied geographies of food, belonging and hope in multicultural Hamilton, Aotearoa New Zealand
Spaces of Encounters
The Good City
Architecture/Affect/Inhabitation
Parallel Lives? Ethnic Segregation in Schools and Neighbourhoods
Living with difference
The geography of community and political organisation in London today
Meaningful encounters? Religion and social cohesion in the English primary school
An Example to Us All
Geographical Foundations of the Big Society
Race, Affect, and Emotion
Urban encounters with difference
Proximity by design? Affective citizenship and the management of unease
Reinventing Multiculturalism
Psycho classrooms
Flesh, Metal, Road
Education spaces
Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers
Supernanny, parenting and a pedagogical state
Too Close for Comfort
Research Performances
Contact Zones
Children's Sociospatial (re)Production of Disability within Primary School Playgrounds
Surmounting City Silences
A phenomenology of whiteness
I Think it's Just Natural
Passing Propinquities in the Multicultural City
On Geography and Materiality
Ethnicity and the Multicultural City
Sound, space and power in a primary school
Travelling in your backyard
Memory and place
Fitting in
Playground Panopticism
An Ambivalent Civility
The Remainders of Race
British Muslim Perspectives on Multiculturalism
Psychosocial Aspects of White Middle-Class Identities
Doing research, writing politics
Welcome to the margins
Suburban drifts
| Unique citing works | 59 |
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| Citations per year | 4,21 |
| Citation span | 2012 - 2026 (15) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 57 |