TY  - SER
AU  - Holloway, Sarah L. 
AU  - Holt, Louise 
AU  - Mills,Sarah 
TI  - Questions of agency: Capacity, subjectivity, spatiality and temporality
PY  - 2019///
PB  - Sage
KW  - agency
KW  -  children,
KW  -  children’s geographies
KW  - social studies of childhood
KW  -  space,
KW  - subjection,
KW  - time,
KW  - youth and families
N2  - Geographies of Children, Youth and Families is flourishing, but its founding conceptions require critical reflection. This paper considers one key conceptual orthodoxy: the notion that children are competent social actors. In a field founded upon liberal notions of agency, we identify a conceptual elision between the benefits of studying agency and the beneficial nature of agency. Embracing post-structuralist feminist challenges, we propose a politically-progressive conceptual framework centred on embodied human agency which emerges within power. We contend this can be achieved though intensive/extensive analyses of space, and a focus on ‘biosocial beings and becomings' within dynamic notions of individual/intergenerational time
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1177/0309132518757654
ER  -