Mitchell Katharyne, Elwood Sarah
Department of Geography, University of Washington, Smith Hall, Box 353550, Seattle, WA 98195, USA.
Environ Plan D. 2012;30(5):788-804. doi: 10.1068/d9011.
Reflecting wider debates in the discipline, recent scholarship in children's geographies has focused attention on the meanings of the political. While supportive of work that opens up new avenues for conceptualizing politics beyond the liberal rational subject, we provide a critique of research methods which delink politics from historical context and relations of power. Focusing on the use of nonrepresentational theory as a research methodology, the paper points to the limits of this approach for children's political formation as well as for sustained scholarly collaboration. We argue instead for a politics of articulation, in the double sense of communication and connection. An empirical case study is used as an illustrative example.
反映该学科更广泛的辩论，儿童地理学领域最近的学术研究将注意力集中在政治的意义上。虽然支持那些为超越自由理性主体来概念化政治开辟新途径的研究，但我们对将政治与历史背景和权力关系脱钩的研究方法提出了批评。本文聚焦于将非表征理论用作一种研究方法，指出这种方法在儿童政治形成以及持续的学术合作方面的局限性。相反，我们主张一种表达的政治，它具有沟通和联系这双重意义。一个实证案例研究被用作说明性示例。
