The right to aspire in children’s geographies. A participatory action research in Palermo

Journal title RIVISTA GEOGRAFICA ITALIANA
Author/s Chiara Giubilaro
Publishing Year 2021 Issue 2021/4
Language Italian Pages 22 P. 23-44 File size 0 KB
DOI 10.3280/rgioa4-2021oa12957
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This article aims at critically investigating how urban aspirations, that is the capacity to collectively imagine and desire alternative spaces for the cities we live in, affect the construction of everyday children’s geographies. Drawing on Political Geography of Children, children are here considered as social actors that ceaselessly negotiate spatial practices and representations created and imposed by adults. Combining this theoretical framework with participatory action research methodologies, we analyze the activities carried out with children from San Giovanni Apostolo Onlus Association in the highly marginalized neighborhood of CEP (Palermo). More specifically, our emphasis is on the techniques of photo-walk and collective mapping along with the efforts of transforming the so-called field of via Calandrucci from a ‘disimagination zone’ into a space where children and young people can claim their right to aspire.

Keywords: ; urban aspirations, Political Geography of Children, Palermo

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Chiara Giubilaro, Il diritto ad aspirare nelle geografie dei bambini. Una ricerca-azione partecipativa nel quartiere CEP di Palermo in "RIVISTA GEOGRAFICA ITALIANA" 4/2021, pp 23-44, DOI: 10.3280/rgioa4-2021oa12957