Rematerialising children's agency: Everyday Practices in a Post-Socialist Estate - Hardcover

"[Blazek's] dynamic, interactive, and reflexive approach to discovery is based on a strong foundation in theory but is not limited by it...[This] book offers a springboard for further studies on the socio-political and cultural relevance of child agency." Slavic Review "Inspirational for both academics and practitioners, this book draws extensively on rich empirical data and original field notes as well as being grounded in the relevant literatures. It offers many thoughts on the details of everyday life and the ethics of studying this." Bettina van Hoven, University of Groningen, the Netherlands "Based in rich, insightful empirical analyses, this important book offers a unique theory of children's social-political action, both rooted in and effective beyond local places. A timely intervention into contemporary academic debates about children's agency." Peter Kraftl, University of Birmingham

What happens if we accept children's practices as cornerstones of communities? This detailed study of children in a small, deprived neighbourhood of Bratislava provides a novel empirical insight on what it is like to be growing up after 25 years of post-socialist transformations, and questions the formation of children's agency and the multitude of resources it comes from.