In streets, yards and secret corners : place-interactive methods as means of communicating with children

• Research that involves children and their relationships with different aspects of place bring methodological as well as theoretical difficulties. These challenges mainly refer to the complexity of experience and power relations between children and adults. The focus in this paper is an exploration of how place-interactive methods such as walks and photography provide abilities to meet these challenges. Drawing on a research project that focus on how children in Sweden and England communicate their experience of place, it is shown that when place is allowed to be an active part in the research process many difficulties can be overcome. The performative aspects of the methods make the body and its sensuous experiences a central part of the research. The active participation and involvement of children as well as the researcher make it possible to create situated knowledge that are not alienated from lived experience due to power relations and the limits of the spoken word. This has an impact on consultation practice as well as the theorising of children's geographies.

Ämnesord

SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP  -- Social och ekonomisk geografi (hsv//swe)

SOCIAL SCIENCES  -- Social and Economic Geography (hsv//eng)

Nyckelord

Place-interactive methods

children

power

photography

walking

performativity

sensuous

Sweden

England

Human geography, economic geography

Kulturgeografi, ekonomisk geografi

Publikations- och innehållstyp

pop (ämneskategori)

kon (ämneskategori)