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Talking politics in everyday family life

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posted on 2023-06-09, 06:16 authored by Sevasti-Melissa Nolas, Christos Varvantakis, Vinnarasan Aruldoss
How do children encounter and relate to public life? Drawing on evidence from ethnographic fieldwork conducted between 2014-2016 for the ERC funded Connectors Study on the relationship between childhood and public life, this paper explores how children encounter public life in their everyday family environments. Using the instance of political talk as a practice through which public life is encountered in the home, the data presented fills important gaps in knowledge about the lived experience of political talk of younger children. Working with three family histories where political talk was reported by parents to be a practice encountered in their own childhoods and one which they continued in the present amongst themselves as a couple/parents, we make two arguments: that children’s political talk, where it occurs, is idiomatic and performative; and that what is transmitted across generations is the practice of talking politics. Drawing on theories of everyday life developed by Michel de Certeau and others we explore the implications of these findings for the dominant social imaginaries of conversation, and for how political talk is researched.

Funding

'Connectors- an international study into the development of children's everyday practice of participation in circuits of social action; G1310; EUROPEAN UNION; ERC-2013-STG-335514

History

Publication status

  • Published

File Version

  • Accepted version

Journal

Contemporary Social Science

ISSN

2158-2041

Publisher

Taylor & Francis

Issue

1-2

Volume

12

Page range

68-83

Department affiliated with

  • Social Work and Social Care Publications

Full text available

  • Yes

Peer reviewed?

  • Yes

Legacy Posted Date

2017-05-12

First Open Access (FOA) Date

2018-12-15

First Compliant Deposit (FCD) Date

2017-05-12

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