‘There is Nothing Here for Us..!’ How Girls Create Meaningful Places of Their Own Through Movement

  1. Pia Christensen1,*,
  2. Miguel Romero Mikkelsen2

Article first published online: 30 DEC 2011

DOI: 10.1111/j.1099-0860.2011.00413.x

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Children & Society

Children & Society

Volume 27, Issue 3, pages 197–207, May 2013

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Christensen, P. and Mikkelsen, M. R. (2013), ‘There is Nothing Here for Us..!’ How Girls Create Meaningful Places of Their Own Through Movement. Children & Society, 27: 197–207. doi: 10.1111/j.1099-0860.2011.00413.x

Author Information

  1. 1

    1Institute of Education, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, UK

  2. 2

    2The Research Unit for General Practice, Department of General Practice, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen K, Denmark

* Professor Pia Christensen, Institute of Education, University of Warwick. Coventry CV4 7AL, UK, Tel.: +44 (0)24 7652 3938; Fax: +44 (0)24 7652 4177. E-mail: p.h.christensen@warwick.ac.uk

Publication History

  1. Issue published online: 9 APR 2013
  2. Article first published online: 30 DEC 2011
  3. Accepted for publication 29 October 2011

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Keywords:

  • children;
  • education;
  • gender;
  • middle childhood;
  • play

This article focuses on how girls create places of meaning and opportunity through collective movement. It is based on an ethnographic study of the everyday experiences and mobility of 10–13 year old girls living in a suburb of Copenhagen, Denmark. 1 The girls ventured for a sense of freedom and a ‘place of their own’ to pursue their interests and social relationships. For some girls the creation of places where they felt ‘at home’ would entail breaking rules and transgressing spatial boundaries set by adults.

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