Narrating Childhood: Mapping Environmental Risk
Topics: Environment
, Social Geography
, Cultural Geography
Keywords: Narrative; Environmental Risk; Children's Geographies
Session Type: Virtual Paper Abstract
Day: Tuesday
Session Start / End Time: 3/1/2022 02:00 PM (Eastern Time (US & Canada)) - 3/1/2022 03:20 PM (Eastern Time (US & Canada))
Room: Virtual 46
Authors:
Kathy Reilly, National University of Ireland Galway
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Abstract
Children have been described as one of the world’s largest marginalised minority groups (Ansell, 2005). Subsequently, the extant literature stemming from the field of critical geographies of children, young people and families have served to centrally re-position children’s discourses within contemporary geographic research agendas. Situated within this literature, the paper reflects on findings from The Places and Spaces of Childhood in Ireland Project (PSCP) with the central aim of exploring environmental narratives of children’s everyday life. A story-mapping research tool was developed to facilitate the collection of children’s narratives of everyday life, asking children (aged 8 – 10) to draw a map from their home to their school, including places of interest and other places where they spent time. The associated stories explore themes of environmental perception, risk and vulnerability. Cross-cutting these narratives are echoes of adult-projections, restricting where children spend time and how this is perceived to change as they grow older, with ‘growing-up’ and ‘getting big’ associated with increased mobility regardless of urban or rural childhood lived experiences. The final section of this paper considers how learnings from this project are used in the CCC-CATAPULT project, focusing on environmental and climate change discourses among young people in Ireland, the UK, Finland and Italy.
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