Article Dans Une Revue Children's Geographies Année : 2026

Children’s global imaginaries: the sociogenesis of political and moral views of world space in childhood

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Children's lives are affected on a daily basis by global processes. Yet children's own views on globalisation and global issues are rarely explored. Drawing on a field survey conducted with 248 Parisian children aged 6–11 years, this paper examines the content of children's global imaginaries and investigates the sociogenesis of their construction. It stands at the intersection of two routes less travelled by children's geographies: the study of world space as a relevant space for children and the analysis of their political and moral perceptions on a global scale. The pluri-methodological framework that has been put in place shows that children's global narratives are shaped by (anxious) imaginaries reflecting an internalisation of vulnerability, blurring the classical Western hierarchies between nature and culture, humans and non-humans. They develop discourses that show the possible emergence of global citizenship. However, children’s ways of worldmaking are socially differentiated. The article argues that children’s building of a political and moral sense on a global scale reveals inequalities and logics of social distinction. Its contribution is to offer a set of considerations for thinking about tomorrow's world from children's perspectives, and to tackle the mechanisms of social reproduction revealed by children's unequal worldviews.

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hal-05561100 , version 1 (20-03-2026)

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Anne-Cécile Ott. Children’s global imaginaries: the sociogenesis of political and moral views of world space in childhood. Children's Geographies, 2026, pp.1-15. ⟨10.1080/14733285.2026.2621746⟩. ⟨hal-05561100⟩
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