Social, Material and Political Constructs of Arctic Childhoods An Everyday Life Perspective

This book addresses the geopolitical notion of the 'Arctic' through the everyday experiences of children. It explores the Arctic as various materializations that matter to, condition and define childhoods in Nordic countries. Presenting nine thematically very different but theoretically an...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Rautio, Pauliina (Editor), Stenvall, Elina (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Singapore Springer Nature Singapore 2019, 2019
Edition:1st ed. 2019
Series:Children: Global Posthumanist Perspectives and Materialist Theories
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • 1 Trees
  • A tale of two trees: How children make space in the city
  • 2 Mold
  • Breathing well at the wastelands? Indoor climate change in schools and the daily lives of arctic children
  • 3 Ice/Water
  • Giant's kettles and arctic childhood
  • 4 Skates and skiis
  • 'Arctic childhoods' and mobilized differences: The mattering of skis and skates in 'nation-ed environments'
  • 5 Clothes
  • Clothes and clothing practices in Finnish early childhood education and care
  • 6 Smartphones
  • Leaping and dancing with digitality: Exploring human-smartphone-entanglements in classrooms
  • 7 The Mall
  • More-than-human politics in the new article landscape: Shifts in atmospheres at the shopping mall
  • 8 Crows
  • Young Nordic children's aesthetic explorations of crows
  • 9 Child-Adult
  • Arctic child-adult/past-present entanglements in a painful past-present lecture at university