Toward a green and playful city : Understanding the social and political production of children's relational wellbeing in Barcelona
Pérez del Pulgar, Carmen 
(Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals)
Anguelovski, Isabelle 
(Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals)
Connolly, James J. T. 
(Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals)
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2020 |
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This paper examines recent urban green amenities directed toward children and families and develops a novel understanding of the ways in which children's socio-natures are made/unmade through such interventions. We employ ethnographic and archival analysis in two new parks - Poble Nou and Nou Barris - in Barcelona to examine how a particular type of children's wellbeing, what we call "relational wellbeing" is shaped through the production of green-playful-child-friendly amenities. We find that planning processes and visions, urban development goals, and neighbourhood socio-material structure moderate the effect of green-playful-child-friendly amenities on relational wellbeing by directing how these spaces are used. This finding points toward the importance - for equity concerns - of accounting for the social and political processes that generate relational wellbeing. These processes are often reflective of broader economic agendas of urban transformation designed to extract value, control space, and/or legitimize speculative urban development - while sometimes eroding local socio-material conditions - to the point of producing green spaces of privilege, exclusion and control. The connection between relational wellbeing and green-playful-child-friendly interventions highlights the importance, within the urban environmental equity literature, of reconceptualising pathways of wellbeing and health beyond questions of spatial distribution of natural areas and offers a new perspective for the development of future guidelines on green-playful-child-friendly space policies. |
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Unidad de excelencia María de Maeztu MdM-2015-0552 |
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Número d'acord de subvenció EC/H2020/678034 |
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Número d'acord de subvenció MINECO/MDM-2015-0552 |
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Número d'acord de subvenció MINECO/IJCI-2016-31100 |
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Anglès |
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article ; recerca ; acceptedVersion |
Matèria: |
Barcelona ;
Children-nature-play ;
Urban environmental equity ;
Urban political ecology ;
Relational wellbeing ;
Environmental justice ;
Gentrification |
Publicat a: |
Cities, Vol. 96 (January 2020) , art. 102438, ISSN 0264-2751 |
DOI: 10.1016/j.cities.2019.102438
Disponible a partir de: 2022-01-31
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