Paranoid parenting? Rematerializing risk and fear for children
Paranoid parenting? Rematerializing risk and fear for children
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2006
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R. Pain
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无论是在社会科学领域还是在大众辩论中，最近关于儿童恐惧的评论都强调了儿童和父母的恐惧与陌生人危险风险之间的不匹配，并指出了儿童和养育子女的文化变化。这篇论文表明，对恐惧和风险采取唯物主义的方法可能同样有助于理解，并且在促进有利于儿童的社会变革方面具有更大的战略优势，特别是那些曾经是受害者的儿童。有人认为，如果研究以儿童为中心，以特定的地方为基础，并明确指出风险的社会分层，那么受害经历本身就可以解释儿童恐惧的很大一部分。为了支持这一观点，该论文利用了对英格兰东北部贫困地区1069名10-16岁儿童的定量和定性研究。比较了儿童受害和儿童恐惧的地理位置，表明许多对公共空间的恐惧在空间上与风险经历是一致的。这些危险和恐惧的地区是性别和种族化的，在这种地理背景下，恋童癖者和寻求庇护者已经取代了儿童对危险的描述中的“陌生人”。讨论了对当前公共和政策辩论的影响。
Both in the social sciences and in popular debates, recent commentaries on fear for children highlight the mismatch between children's and parents' fears and the risk of stranger danger, point to cultural changes to childhood and parenting in explanation. This paper suggests that a materialist approach to fear and risk may be equally helpful to understanding, and of more strategic advantage in promoting social change which benefits children, especially those who have been victims. It is argued that if research is child-centred, grounded in particular places, and explicit about the social stratification of risk, then experience of victimization itself can explain a large part of children's fears. In support, the paper draws on quantitative and qualitative research with 1,069 children aged 10–16 in a deprived area of northeast England. The geographies of child victimization and children's fears are compared, showing that many fears about public space are spatially congruent with experiences of risk. These geographies of risk and fear are gendered and racialized and, in this geographical context, paedophiles and asylum seekers have replaced the ‘stranger’ in children's accounts of danger. Implications for current public and policy debates are discussed.