Papers by Ida Wentzel Winther
Dansk Paedagogisk Tidsskrift, Jun 28, 2021
Aarhus Universitetsforlag, 2019
Proceedings of the 12th international conference on Human computer interaction with mobile devices and services - MobileHCI '10, 2010
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Recherches sociologiques et anthropologiques
It has become a condition for modern people to be ‘on the move ’ (Bauman 1998, Rushdie 1995, Dike... more It has become a condition for modern people to be ‘on the move ’ (Bauman 1998, Rushdie 1995, Diken 1998). We move physically, mentally and, especially, virtually. The new global space and the use of new technologies undermine the old conception of Home. These days Home has to be revitalized. It is important, because at home we try tactics ‘to home oneself´. An ability even more important than ever, because we move away from the hegemonic idea about one home to the tactics to feel at home, eventually in more mobile ways. I have examined how some children at the age 10-11 make themselves at home. How they domesticate, capture territories and places. What do our children do to get place, space and rooms, which belong to them? How do they do home? ‘To home oneself ’ can be understood as a self-technology or a tactic (de Certeau, 1984), a tactic to make space around oneself on the places one stay. A way to commit oneself in between the well known and the un-known. It is a tactic one can ...
Journal of Material Culture
In this article, the authors examine how materiality can be understood as a co-creator and signif... more In this article, the authors examine how materiality can be understood as a co-creator and significant carrier of social processes. They focus on the ways children in large sibling groups relate to bedrooms and identify the logics at play when the organizing of children’s bedrooms and siblings are interwoven. Children have dreams and expectations of establishing a space by way of having their own room and stuff, and they implement this desire for ownership through specific strategies to obtain material presence and leave territorial marks, which afford them positioning and recognition within sibling relations and families. The authors’ analysis clearly shows that children gain material weight across households with varying material resources and different socio-cultural views on how to allocate these resources. It also shows that processes surrounding the material constitution of siblingships are embedded in a child-focused society with strong cultural norms about what constitutes a...
Siblings-Practical and Sensitive Relations is based on a research project, (Ex)Changeable Sibling... more Siblings-Practical and Sensitive Relations is based on a research project, (Ex)Changeable Siblingships, conducted at the Department of Education, Aarhus University. The Egmont Foundation financed the project, and we would like to thank them not only for providing financial support but also for a highly constructive collaboration. The Danish edition was published in 2014. It was based on empirical material collected throughout 2011 and 2012. It involves close to 100 children and their parents as well as selected professionals who work with children. Thanks to all our informants. We would also like to thank our advisory board which includes representatives from relevant institutions and organisations: Bente
AU Library Scholarly Publishing Services, 2015
This book is about siblingship as a social and cultural phenomenon in contemporary Denmark. Being... more This book is about siblingship as a social and cultural phenomenon in contemporary Denmark. Being a sibling, having siblings and getting siblings are conditions in the lives of most children; actually 90 per cent of all children are registered as having siblings. Despite the prevalence, we have little knowledge of how children perceive being siblings, who they consider as siblings, and what they do or do not do together. Neither do we know much about how this phenomenon is culturally understood. Do children consider all the children they live with as siblings, even if they do not have parents in common? Can you be more or less real siblings? Can you stop being siblings? Obviously, there are many ways of being a sibling, and sibling relations can change considerably as children grow up. New children may appear – in the shape of newborn babies or children from previous marriages – while other children may be separated by way of divorce or moving out. Sibling configurations vary, as d...
Family relationships are normatively assumed to be characterized by ’sharing’, such as living tog... more Family relationships are normatively assumed to be characterized by ’sharing’, such as living together in the same home, occupying the same place, sharing stuff, blood and biology, spending special and ordinary time together, and consequently creating shared biographical experiences. In that way, families are thrown into togetherness. At the same time, we see families in varying forms where ’sharing’ is lived and contested differently. In Denmark, many children live in nuclear families, and many live in different variations of more than one household. For those who share household and family, ’sharing’ will be a basic condition. No matter what, they should share life circumstances, more stories, more places and spaces, more households families with both kin and non-kin. This keynote addresses the particular of children’s experiences of living apart and/or living together in sharing families. They live in a mixture of attachment and fragmentations, in a grid of more or less stable co...
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Papers by Ida Wentzel Winther