ABSTRACT

This article draws on a larger ethnographic study conducted in the homes of babies aged between one and 18 months and their families in Sweden. The article explores how everyday space is made in the homes of families through babies’ engagements with material things by methodologically working with maps, images, lists, and stories. Three themes – the practices of spreading things out, the height at which activities take place, and the multiplicity of things – are highlighted as important for understanding babies’ space-making practices. These practices are discussed in terms of the flows of things, which highlights how the practices of moving a multiplicity of things come to matter in the making of space in the homes of babies and their families.

摘要

本文借鉴了在瑞典 1 至 18 个月大的婴儿及其家人的家中进行的一项更大的民族志研究。这篇文章通过使用地图、图像、列表和故事的方法论探讨了如何通过婴儿与物质事物的接触在家庭家中创造日常空间。三个主题——展开事物的做法、活动发生的高度以及事物的多样性——被强调为对理解婴儿的空间创造做法很重要。这些实践是根据事物的流动来讨论的，这突出了在婴儿及其家人的家中创造空间时移动多种事物的实践如何变得重要。