Making connections under the banyan tree and other such spaces
Melissa and Christos reflect on methods in multimodal ethnography to think about how these might relate to knowledge exchange
Tag Archives: participation
Whose voices are heard? Towards a more comprehensive ‘Brexit’ picture
Alexandra Bulat discusses her use of drawings, flipcharts and comment cards as multimodal ethnography for researching attitudes towards EU immigration
Drawing, sounds and play: understanding children’s viewpoints and participation
Francesca Vaghi reflects on our Making Connections workshop and explores how idioms can be used for interpretation and analysis of ‘mundane’ everyday life
Political activism across the life course: Special issue for Contemporary Social Science
A special issue that Melissa, Vinnarasan and me have edited for Contemporary Social Science,’Political activism across the life course‘ has just been published! The publishing of the issue rounds up a […]
Desire lines (4)
On April 26 this year I had the opportunity to participate and contribute to a workshop on improving responses to child sexual exploitation (CSE) that was organised by the University […]
Why today’s ‘kids’ strike’ is an important civics lesson for all
Melissa Nolas examines the way that children’s civics and political actions are understood in the media and in the public consciousness
The referendum in Greece and the reflexes of social scientists
Melissa Nolas and Christos Varvantakis question some of the epistemological issues of social scientists reacting immediately to public events
Inviting in the Figure of the Political Child
Rebecca Webb explains the influence of Rancière’s work on the project, and how notions of ‘rights’ and the ‘political’ child can be interrupted and disrupted by our participants
Ethnography of the city
Vinnarasan Aruldoss describes sampling with ethnography and how the very notion of ‘childhood’ gets figured temporally, spatially, and through disciplines
What’s in a name?
Dr Sevasti-Melissa Nolas explores the importance of relationships in understanding children’s participation