Children's Play in the Shadow of War

Autor/in	Feldman, Daniel
Titel	Children's Play in the Shadow of War
Quelle	In: American Journal of Play, 11 (2019) 3, S.288-307 (20 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1938-0399
Schlagwörter	War; Play; Stress Variables; Coping; Children; Comparative Analysis; Games; Death; European History; Jews; Foreign Countries; Violence; Trauma; Play Therapy; Syria + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Krieg; Spiel; Bewältigung; Child; Kind; Kinder; Game; Spiele; Sterbefall; Tod; Todesfall; Jew; Jude; Jüdin; Juden; Ausland; Gewalt; Spieltherapie; Syrien
Abstract	The author demonstrates that war places children's play under acute stress but does not eliminate it. He argues that the persistence of children's play and games during periods of armed conflict reflects the significance of play as a key mode for children to cope with conditions of war. Episodes of children's play drawn from the recent Syrian Civil War illustrate the precariousness and importance of children's play and games during contemporary armed conflict and focus attention on children's play as a disregarded casualty of war. The article compares the state of underground children's play in contemporary Syria with the record of clandestine games played by children in the Holocaust to substantiate its claim that children adapt their play to concretize and comprehend traumatic wartime experience. The article posits that play is both a target of war and a means of therapeutically contending with mass violence. (As Provided).
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