CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2018
| Author | Sobol, Iuliia |
|---|---|
| Title | Flaneurs With a Purpose: The Transformation of Children's Unattended Mobility in the City of Kyiv |
| Summary | Children's unattended mobility is the realization of children's right of movement and an important source of socialization and development. In my thesis I analyze how the social construction of childhood and its everyday practices, particularly unattended mobility, is changing within the risk and knowledge-driven society in Ukraine. Thus, I look on children's mobility within the changing urban landscapes, deploying empirical research on the experience of young Kyivans themselves children in 1980-90s, an era of turbulent post-socialist transition, and their parental practices as enacted with their own children, a new generation in the times of neoliberal change. I argue that not only is children's unattended mobility decreasing due to growing risk-perception and moral panic, but also that it is becoming subject to excessive control: children’s activities are comparatively limited and strictly prescribed by various means of guidance and remote supervision. Moreover, I observe the ways in which a fixation on success determines parenting, possibly to the detriment of children's mobility and even their socialization, affecting their experience of the city. |
| Supervisor | Rajaram, Prem Kumar; Monterescu, Daniel |
| Department | Sociology MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2018/sobol_iuliia.pdf |
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