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Questions of agency: capacity, subjectivity, spatiality and temporality

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posted on 2018-01-15, 14:14 authored by Sarah HollowaySarah Holloway, Louise HoltLouise Holt, Sarah MillsSarah Mills
Geographies of Children, Youth and Families is flourishing, but its founding conceptions require critical reflection. This paper considers one key conceptual orthodoxy: the notion that children are competent social actors. In a field founded upon liberal notions of agency, we identify a conceptual elision between the benefits of studying agency and the beneficial nature of agency. Embracing post-structuralist feminist challenges, we propose a politically-progressive conceptual framework centred on embodied human agency which emerges within power. We contend this can be achieved though intensive/extensive analyses of space, and a focus on biosocial beings and becomings within dynamic notions of individual/intergenerational time.

Funding

This research was funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ES/L009315/1; RES-062-23-1073-A; RES-000-22-4095).

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Department

  • Geography and Environment

Published in

Progress in Human Geography

Volume

43

Issue

3

Pages

458-477

Citation

HOLLOWAY, S.L., HOLT, L. and MILLS, S., 2018. Questions of agency: capacity, subjectivity, spatiality and temporality. Progress in Human Geography, 43 (3), pp.458-477.

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SAGE Publications (© the Author)

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This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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2017-12-21

Publication date

2018-04-08

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This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) which permits any use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage).

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1477-0288

Language

  • en

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