ABSTRACT
Some of the earlier developments in geography, such as the philosopher Henri Lefebvre’s work on the social production of space, have also inspired authors in childhood studies. Agency is about changing possibilities of change entailed in reconfiguring material-discursive apparatuses of bodily production, including the boundary articulations and exclusions that are marked by those practices in the enactment of a causal structure. This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book addresses body and embodiment but represent different theoretical starting points and relate body to materiality/matter in different ways. It explores the entanglement of children and things when enacting connected play processes. The book focuses on digital technologies and, in particular, one technological application, a web service called ‘Wilma’, used in the majority of Finnish schools for administration and communication with students and their guardians.
