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‘There is Nothing Here for Us..!’ How Girls Create Meaningful Places of Their Own Through Movement
Author(s) -
Christensen Pia,
Mikkelsen Miguel Romero
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
children and society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.538
H-Index - 58
eISSN - 1099-0860
pISSN - 0951-0605
DOI - 10.1111/j.1099-0860.2011.00413.x
Subject(s) - nothing , meaning (existential) , ethnography , movement (music) , sociology , set (abstract data type) , gender studies , sense of place , freedom of movement , aesthetics , psychology , epistemology , social science , political science , law , art , anthropology , philosophy , computer science , psychotherapist , programming language
This article focuses on how girls create places of meaning and opportunity through collective movement. It is based on an ethnographic study of the everyday experiences and mobility of 10–13 year old girls living in a suburb of Copenhagen, Denmark. 1 The girls ventured for a sense of freedom and a ‘place of their own’ to pursue their interests and social relationships. For some girls the creation of places where they felt ‘at home’ would entail breaking rules and transgressing spatial boundaries set by adults.