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TY - JOUR
T1 - Towards Interdependence
T2 - Using slings to inspire a new understanding of parental care
AU - Whittle, Rebecca
PY - 2022/9/30
Y1 - 2022/9/30
N2 - Based on empirical research with parents who carry their children in slings, I propose what I hope will be a new and more progressive way of understanding of parental care relationships, where ideas of dependence/independence are replaced by those of interdependence. Through engagement with feminist literatures which stress relationality between humans and non-humans, I suggest that it may be helpful to broaden our understanding of parental care from an exclusive focus on the mother–child relationship in order to recognise a wider range of actors as participating in this process – including children themselves and the more than human world. Crucially, I also consider the potential for care to flow in multiple directions within these relationships.
AB - Based on empirical research with parents who carry their children in slings, I propose what I hope will be a new and more progressive way of understanding of parental care relationships, where ideas of dependence/independence are replaced by those of interdependence. Through engagement with feminist literatures which stress relationality between humans and non-humans, I suggest that it may be helpful to broaden our understanding of parental care from an exclusive focus on the mother–child relationship in order to recognise a wider range of actors as participating in this process – including children themselves and the more than human world. Crucially, I also consider the potential for care to flow in multiple directions within these relationships.
KW - Parenting
KW - slings
KW - relationality
KW - interdependence
U2 - 10.1080/14733285.2021.1955091
DO - 10.1080/14733285.2021.1955091
M3 - Journal article
VL - 20
SP - 674
EP - 687
JO - Children's Geographies
JF - Children's Geographies
SN - 1473-3285
IS - 5
ER -