New geographies of parenting, policy and place
@article{Jupp2013NewGO, title={New geographies of parenting, policy and place}, author={Eleanor Jupp and Aisling Gallagher}, journal={Children's Geographies}, year={2013}, volume={11}, pages={155 - 159} }
At the centre of relationships between children and parents is something arguably uniquely personal, intimate and embodied. For example, Rose (2003), discussing mothers' practices around family photographs, comments that ‘it is part of a mother's relationship to her child to engage with that child's absolute corporeal uniqueness. It cannot be denied or avoided’ (16). Yet as the papers in this Special Issue attest, parent–child relationships and practices of ‘parenting’ are also clearly and…
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