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Spatiality and the New Social Studies of Childhood

Sarah L. Holloway

Department of Geography Loughborough University

Gill Valentine

Department of Geography University of Sheffield

The past two decades have seen rapid changes in the ways in which sociologists think about children, and a growing cross-fertilisation of ideas between researchers in a variety of social science disciplines. This paper builds upon these developments by exploring what three inter-related ways of thinking about spatiality might contribute to the new social studies of childhood. Specifically, we identify the importance of progressive understandings of place in overcoming the split between global and local approaches to childhood; we discuss the ways in which children's identities are constituted in and through particular spaces; and we examine the ways in which our understandings of childhood can shape the meaning of spaces and places. These ideas are illustrated by reference to our current research on children's use of the internet as well as a range of wider studies.

Key Words: childhood • children • internet • place • space • spatiality

Sociology, Vol. 34, No. 4, 763-783 (2000)
DOI: 10.1177/S0038038500000468
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