Technology-nonhuman-child assemblages

Reconceptualising Rural Childhood Roaming

Dados Bibliográficos

ID8064375
AutoresT A Smith (0000-0001-7221-1868, Cardiff University, autor correspondente), Ria Ann Dunkley (0000-0003-0238-7344, University of Glasgow)
Ano2017
Volume16
Fascículo3
Páginas304-318
Data de publicação2017-11-23
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoChildren s Geographies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1473-3277 • E-ISSN: 1473-3285
EditoraTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/14733285.2017.1407406
OpenAlexW2770749015
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas16
Referências citadas47

This paper argues for reconceptualising how children use technology ‘outdoors’ as a technology-nonhuman-child assemblage, or roaming pathway. Founded in contemporary fears about children’s reduced opportunities to access nature and roam in rural environments, in part due to the ubiquitous presence of technology in their lives, we instead illustrate how the agencies of technologies and plants are folded into children’s outdoor roaming. Combining visual methods, video analysis and qualitative geovisualisation, and in collaboration with the Brecon Beacons National Park Authority, this paper exposes how assemblages are contingently brought into being through the actions of what technologies, plants and children do together. We demonstrate how the agentic capacities of non-humans and technologies are assembled through children’s imaginative interaction with them, and how these imaginative interactions make such agencies visible

Affordance · Assemblage (archaeology · Emerging technologies · Geography · Human–computer interaction · Internet privacy · Roaming · Sociology · Telecommunications · Children's Rights and Participation · Computer Science · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism