119 FIVE Mess/order: materials, timings, feelings Historically, it has been assumed that the term ‘space’ delineates something that is static, bounded and restrictive. In contrast, philosophers have tended to concentrate on the creative possibilities evoked by concepts of time (Massey, 2005). More recently, however, geographers have stressed that it is impossible and undesirable to divorce our understandings of time and space (Dodgshon, 2008). This is another reason that I began this book by arguing for the study of spatialities, not simply the physical
PART II Materialities: Spatiality and Sensory Embodiment
PART II The Material Economy and Commons
The subject of material needs and a flexible budget is very fraught because it deals directly with money and the powerful emotions that it evokes. In 2002, in the early days of the student programme Casework for Social Change, we dealt with a woman who was thought to be difficult to reach. Nevertheless, she established a close relationship with the student, and shared her difficulties with her. There was one aspect of her life that she did not share: her material difficulties – she never asked for help in this regard. It took a year and a half before she dared
Introduction One of our aims with this book is to move beyond the idea that research with VR can only take place via a complex process of content creation. This and the following chapter, therefore, focus on commercially available, ready-made materials. The use of existing materials lowers the barrier of entry for researchers wanting to work with VR, and there are significant research gaps that can be addressed through engaging with this content. There are, of course, non-commercial existing VR experiences that can be reused in research projects as well
Mundane, everyday objects have an important part to play in care practices and how care relationships are established and maintained. Through paying attention to how the materiality of care is constituted between bodies, objects, temporality, and space, we are able to see how objects of care can enable or constrain care practices ( Buse and Twigg, 2018 ). There are many mundane objects which form part of an older person’s world when living in care: food, personal hygiene supplies, bedding and furniture, and countless other objects which surround their daily
153 SEVEN Material legacies: shaping things and places through heritage Jo Vergunst, Elizabeth Curtis, Oliver Davis, Robert Johnston, Helen Graham and Colin Shepherd Introduction: why do materials matter? Historic research, by its very nature, questions old narratives and develops new ones. Material goods, taken out of circulation perhaps for decades, centuries or millennia, will re-enter society, receive new roles and have effects wildly different from those anticipated by their makers. The site of a former house or castle, once rediscovered, provides the
37 THREE Children’s access to economic and material resources The following three chapters present the empirical findings from in-depth interviews with 40 children and young people living in poverty. They cover three main areas in children’s lives; this chapter explores the financial and material aspects of children’s lives; Chapter Four looks at the social and relational aspects, focusing in particular on children’s lives at school; and Chapter Five focuses on the children’s home environment and their personal and familial lives. The paramount aim of the
