The transition to parenthood in urban space: continuity and disruption of embodied experience and spatial practice.

Boterman, Willem R. and Bridge, Gary ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2156-4342 2023. The transition to parenthood in urban space: continuity and disruption of embodied experience and spatial practice. Social and Cultural Geography 24 (7) , pp. 1165-1184. 10.1080/14649365.2022.2028181

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Abstract

This paper explores the impacts of the transition to parenthood on the relationship between (from a Bourdieusian perspective) habitus and field in social reproduction. The paper is based on a longitudinal study of white middle-class gentrifier households in Amsterdam before and after childbirth. The study reveals the disruptive (as well as re-configurative) impact of parenthood as transition, even for this relatively privileged group (in terms of legitimated habitus and spatial discretion and mobility). Our findings strongly suggest the highly gendered nature of this transition, and also reveal the significance of spatial dimensions of this gendered experience – from embodiment all the way through to changing relationships in urban space. These impacts suggest parenthood as a distinct ‘field’ of social struggle and emphasise the significance of gender and spatial experience in understanding habitus-field relations, alongside the more acknowledged temporalities of social reproduction.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Geography and Planning (GEOPL)
Additional Information:	This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/)
Publisher:	Routledge
ISSN:	1464-9365
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	18 March 2022
Date of Acceptance:	22 September 2021
Last Modified:	13 Sep 2023 16:17
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/148451

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