Abstract:
This text presents the dossier “Urban childhood in social science: problems and methodologic challenges”. It aims to situate the main questions which characterizes the works on the relation between childhood and city. In the first part, we indicate how urban studies (Seixas 2003Seixas, Paulo C. 2003. O viajante enclausurado. Esboço da nova figura metropolitana. In Arquitectando espaços: da natureza à metapolis, organizado por Vítor Oliveira Jorge, 233-41.Coimbra: Universidade de Coimbra; Centro de Estudos Arqueológicos.; Harvey 2008Harvey, David. 2008. The right to the city. New Left Review 53: 23-40.; Fernandez Martorell 2009Fernandez Martorell, Mercedes. 2009. Antropología de la convivencia. Manifesto de Antropología Urbana. Madrid: Catedra.) and childhood studies (Balagopalan 2019Balagopalan, Sarada. 2019. Why historicize rights-subjectivities? Children’s rights, compulsory schooling, and the deregulation of child labor in India. Childhood 26 (3): 304-20. https://doi.org/10.1177/0907568219856077.
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; Castro Seixas 2022Castro Seixas, Eunice, Catarina Tomás, Maria Fernandes, e Niccolò Giacchetta. 2022. The impact of Covid-19 on children’s play in the tourist city: a case study of a Lisbon urban park. Children Youth and Environments 32 (1): 152-72. https://doi.org/10.1353/cye.2022.0006.
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; Sarmento 2018Sarmento, Manuel J. 2018. Infância e cidade: restrições e possibilidades. Educação 41 (2): 232-240. https://doi.org/10.15448/1981-2582.2018.2.31317.
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) have interfaces in the analysis of some topics: the right for the city; appropriation of the public space and children participation in the city; socio-territorial inequality and childhood, and the children as political actors in the city. In the second part, we suggest a brief systematization of articles, dialoguing with Brazilian, Spanish, Argentinean, and British researchers. It points out interdisciplinarity and denouncements. We seek to collaborate in the contemporary debates about the multiple urban childhood built in different spaces in the city and in different city in the world, highlighting methodological, epistemological, and ethical challenges.
Keywords:
Childhood studies; Urban studies; Social sciences