OS LISBON URBAN GARDENS/PARKS TROUGH ADULT’S GAZE AND CHILDREN’S ACTION

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https://doi.org/10.22481/praxisedu.v16i40.6890

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City, Childhood, Urban Parks/Gardens

Abstract

Urban gardens and parks are public spaces socially constructed by human action, in their multiple dimensions and in the diversity of the social, cultural and generational groups attending them. However, urban space planning and management have not been fully compatible with the social inclusion of all children. These spaces are generally designed without their participation and based on a series of cultural and socio-technical assumptions and representations of children and childhood. These assumptions, when implemented in the public space, contribute to the standardization and normalization of children in these places, with implications for the contemporary modes of symbolic childhood administration, namely, the restriction of their agency and socio-spatial practices. This article analyses how children and adults perceive and experience two different public spaces in the city of Lisbon (Portugal): Vasco da Gama Garden and the Urban Park of Quinta das Conchas. Inspired by an ethnographic approach, based on participant observation and qualitative interviews with visitors of these places and building from the perspectives of urban sociology and sociology of childhood, we aim to give visibility to children as producers of knowledge differentiated from adults. These case studies allow us to discuss the situation of childhood in the city as socially revealing, with a special focus on gardens/urban parks, as structured social spaces where children are made particularly visible through the formal and symbolic constraints that are imposed on them, but also through the way that they appropriate the public place and exercise their right to the city.

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Author Biographies

Eunice Castro Seixas, SOCIUS/CSG, Universidade de Lisboa– Portugal

Doutorada em Sociologia, Universidade de Coimbra (UC); SOCIUS/CSG, Lisbon School of Economics & Management, Universidade de Lisboa- Portugal; Investigadora Responsável do Projeto CRiCity.

Catarina Tomás, Instituto Politécnico de Lisboa CICS.NOVA.FCSH NOVA – Portugal

Doutorada em Estudos da Criança, Universidade do Minho (UM); Instituto Politécnico de Lisboa, Escola Superior de Educação – Portugal; CICS.NOVA, Universidade Nova de Lisboa – Portugal. E-mail:

Niccolò Giacchetta, Università IUAV di Venezia –Itália

Mestre em Planificação e Política para a Cidade, o Território e o Ambiente, Università IUAV di Venezia, Itália. 

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Published

2020-07-01

How to Cite

SEIXAS, E. C.; TOMÁS, C.; GIACCHETTA, N. OS LISBON URBAN GARDENS/PARKS TROUGH ADULT’S GAZE AND CHILDREN’S ACTION. Práxis Educacional, Vitória da Conquista, v. 16, n. 40, p. 134-163, 2020. DOI: 10.22481/praxisedu.v16i40.6890. Disponível em: https://periodicos2.uesb.br/index.php/praxis/article/view/6890. Acesso em: 23 nov. 2024.