- Title
- Generationing educational and caring spaces for young children: Case of preschool bathroom
- Creator
- Millei, Zsuzsa
- Relation
- Families, Intergenerationality, and Peer Group Relations p. 287-306
- Relation
- Geographies of Children and Young People 5
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-4585-92-7_25-1
- Publisher
- Springer
- Resource Type
- book chapter
- Date
- 2018
- Description
- This chapter demonstrates how Foucauldian thinking can be used to understand the ways in which educational and care spaces are constituted through mechanisms of "generationing" by "putting into action" various historically contingent knowledges and discourses about "childhood" and children and how those are spatialized into material arrangements. Mechanisms of "generationing" operate in children's places but the differences they re/produce between "childhood" and "adulthood" are often taken for granted. This chapter aims to trouble the taken-for-granted "generational view" of children's places and show how children's places are not simply given or happen or being created on uncharted territories. To do this, the chapter provides a brief review of "relational space" and the inseparability of knowledge/power/space in Foucault's theorizing. It then retools Alanen's concept of "generationing' as a set of mechanisms of power. The case of an Australian preschool bathroom provides an illustration of the various mechanisms through which "generationing" of spaces and material arrangements takes place and its power effects.
- Subject
- generationing; conceptions of childhood; conceptions of adulthood; power; places for children; material arrangement for children; Foucault; Alanen
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1409166
- Identifier
- uon:35955
- Identifier
- ISBN:9789814585927
- Language
- eng
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