Between devices, spaces and institutions. Children's physical activity in popular homes during the pandemic.

Based on qualitative research centred on in-depth interviews, the article analyses the way in which, from an adult perspective, children from low-income households in Gran La Plata, Buenos Aires (Argentina), were linked to physical activity through play and sporting practices in the context of isola...

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Autores principales: Aliano, Nicolás, Pi Puig, Ana Pilar, Rausky, María Eugenia, Santos, Javier Alberto
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Lenguaje:Español
Publicado: ANarchivo [Facultad de Ciencias de la Comunicación] 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/CIPeCo/article/view/38441
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Sumario:Based on qualitative research centred on in-depth interviews, the article analyses the way in which, from an adult perspective, children from low-income households in Gran La Plata, Buenos Aires (Argentina), were linked to physical activity through play and sporting practices in the context of isolation imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic. The research reveals that the activities analysed –mediated by patterns of upbringing, the characteristics of family conformation, the institutions, spatialities and devices that imbued them with certain enclassifying features- marked the experience of childhood during the pandemic. In a moment as extraordinary as it was critical, parents and/or mothers, with their unequal conditions of possibility, sought to preserve and sustain this expressive world of childhood. Far from being conceived as a marginal set of activities, letting play became a central strategy for caring for their children, coping with domestic life during the pandemic and counteracting some of its effects.