Beyond 'voice', beyond 'agency', beyond 'politics'? Hybrid childhoods and some critical reflections on children's emotional geographies

Emotion, Space and Society

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 13-23

  Kraftl, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Alternative education; Attachment theory; Biosocial dualism; Children's geographies; Emotion and affect; Family and intergenerational relations

Indexed keywords

EID: 84887817998     PISSN: 17554586     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.emospa.2013.01.004     Document Type: Article

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