%0 Journal Article
%T Questions of agency: Capacity, subjectivity, spatiality and temporality
%A Louise Holt
%A Sarah L. Holloway
%A Sarah Mills
%J Progress in Human Geography
%@ 1477-0288
%D 2019
%R 10.1177/0309132518757654
%X Geographies of Children, Youth and Families is flourishing, but its founding conceptions require critical reflection. This paper considers one key conceptual orthodoxy: the notion that children are competent social actors. In a field founded upon liberal notions of agency, we identify a conceptual elision between the benefits of studying agency and the beneficial nature of agency. Embracing post-structuralist feminist challenges, we propose a politically-progressive conceptual framework centred on embodied human agency which emerges within power. We contend this can be achieved though intensive/extensive analyses of space, and a focus on ¡®biosocial beings and becomings' within dynamic notions of individual/intergenerational time
%K agency
%K children
%K children¡¯s geographies
%K social studies of childhood
%K space
%K subjection
%K time
%K youth and families
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0309132518757654