Children s Geographies· 2013Q1
Children who carry stones in their pockets: on autotelic material practices in everyday life
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Short summary
Children's practice of collecting and carrying stones is presented as an autotelic (intrinsically rewarding) activity that challenges the artificial nature-culture divide.
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Key points
- Children's practice of collecting and carrying stones is an autotelic activity.
- This practice challenges the nature-culture divide.
- The theoretical framework is based on post-humanism and new materialism.
- The research focuses on the materiality of children's everyday environments.
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Abstract
This paper is based on an ongoing empirical journey into the materiality of children's everyday life environments. The theoretical framework relies on post-humanism relational/new materialism as influenced by Deleuze and Guattari. An inherently rewarding practice, often undertaken by children as if by default – the carrying of stones – is discussed as blurring the unfortunate and artificially produced nature-culture divide.
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