Talbot, Deborah
(2013).
| DOI (Digital Object Identifier) Link: | https://doi.org/10.1080/14733285.2013.779450 |
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Abstract
This article will critically examine theories of risk - referred to in this article as 'pro-risk' - as applied to parenting cultures in the UK through a case study of early years parenting, based in Walhamstow, East London. Common to all of these theories is an assertion that children are over-parented - a product of economic, social and cultural changes such as the decline of community as well as theories of child-centred parenting. Through the close examination of two examples where risk and community were contested, the article will argue that missing from these theories is an understanding of the embodiments of early years parenting, which underpin the way that parents handle the tensions between risk and development. Further, that parents sought to militate against isolation and the decline of community through local parenting networks.
| Item Type: | Journal Item |
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| Copyright Holders: | 2013 Taylor & Francis |
| ISSN: | 1473-3277 |
| Keywords: | parenting; risk; embodiment; play; parenting networks |
| Academic Unit/School: | Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) > History, Religious Studies, Sociology, Social Policy and Criminology Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) |
| Research Group: | International Centre for Comparative Criminological Research (ICCCR) OpenSpace Research Centre (OSRC) |
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| Item ID: | 36820 |
| Depositing User: | Deborah Talbot |
| Date Deposited: | 05 Jun 2013 12:14 |
| Last Modified: | 19 Dec 2017 09:53 |
| URI: | http://oro.open.ac.uk/id/eprint/36820 |
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