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The everyday lives of children who have experienced domestic abuse : looking beyond the trauma lens /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Herbert, Brenda (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Bristol : Bristol University Press, 2026.
Subjects:
Abused children > Psychology.
Psychic trauma in children.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Front Cover
  • The Everyday Lives of Children Who Have Experienced Domestic AbusE: Looking Beyond the Trauma Lens
  • Copyright Page
  • Dedication
  • Table of Contents
  • List of figures
  • Acknowledgements
  • 1 Introduction: Now you see me
  • Children and mothers in their own words
  • The children
  • The mothers
  • Domestic abuse and children
  • The story of harm
  • Domestic abuse, safeguarding and social work intervention
  • The figure of the child and epistemic justice
  • Cultural theories of the everyday
  • The reluctant ethnographer
  • Shifting the gaze
  • Summary of the book
  • One last note before I begin
  • 2 Over-​researched and under-​represented: decolonising the figure of the child
  • Child as method
  • The passive child
  • The early years child
  • The fugitive child
  • Tropes of childhood beyond the social work literature
  • The figure of the child soldier
  • The figure of the traumatised child
  • Disrupting the Global North/​Global South binary
  • Tropes of childhood and the purpose of dehumanisation
  • Humanising the child and epistemic justice
  • The case for studying the everyday of children who have experienced domestic abuse
  • Conclusion
  • 3 The everyday life of Mystical
  • Everyday relations, food and identity
  • Everyday space and safety
  • Everyday relationships: portrait of a mother
  • A sticker for his mother
  • Impediments to the good life: being 'good' at school
  • 'The voice of Mystical'
  • Living and researching under the shadow of child protection (CP)
  • Conclusion
  • 4 Taking the fun out of play
  • Making sense of fun and play
  • Bending, changing and breaking rules
  • Playground: an everyday place for fun
  • 'Catch me!' Playground, bodies, risk and fun
  • Desire hiding in plain sight
  • Vouchers for fun: subverting resource for play
  • Mothers' delight: a different gaze
  • Loitering with pleasure
  • Conclusion
  • 5 The aesthetics of everyday life
  • The knife in the sun
  • Banners, balloons and waiting for the big day
  • The bedroom
  • A doll that looks like me
  • Virtual homes
  • Minecraft and curation
  • Memories and photographs: the aesthetic of remembering, curating and archiving
  • Outside in
  • Everlasting and shifting shapes
  • Shape-​shifters
  • Conclusion
  • 6 The art of loving in everyday life
  • 'What's Love Got to Do with It?'
  • Do you want to play? The art of getting to know you, me, us
  • Sisterly love
  • Unloving spaces
  • Patriarchy and love
  • 'I just nod my head and smile': care without love
  • Philia: love of a friend
  • Multi-​species love
  • Mothers' love
  • My 'other family': researcher's love
  • Conclusion
  • 7 Conclusion: Floating Matters
  • Who gets to tell the story?
  • Decolonising the figure of the child through multimodality
  • It takes time
  • 'Blah blah blah': creating with children
  • What will you do with my story?
  • More than that!
  • Appendix : Methods
  • Art packs