" Becoming Lina": Approaching the constitution of girlhood in a " post-socialist" area through empiricist commitment

• Autores: Matej Blazek
• Localización: Documents d'anàlisi geogràfica, ISSN-e 2014-4512, ISSN 0212-1573, Vol. 57, Nº 1, 2011 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Geografies de la infància, la joventut i les famílies), págs. 13-30
• Idioma: inglés
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  • The paper addresses a gap in the literature on childhood and/in post-socialism and uses everydayness as the conceptual means that links both themes. It presents a story of Lina, a seven-year old Roma girl from a deprived urban neighbourhood in Bratislava, and maps everyday encounters, practices and recognitions that imply what matters in Lina�s life. The paper stresses importance of ungrounded empirical inquiry, and through identifying complex and heterogeneous associations in Lina�s life, it highlights acknowledgment of both broader social situations (such as post-socialism), but also mundane and often unremarkable moments in children�s lives. The notion of post-socialism is thus situated within the �descaled� geographies of Lina�s everyday life, rather than as an imposing social condition.