Photo/stories from the field: Do greens stand for fire-blocks or for nature-preservation?
Christos Varvantakis reflects on walking practices and embodied encounters with green space and the environment
Tag Archives: play
Photo/stories from the field: Configuring matters
Christos and Melissa reflect on ‘configuring matters’ as a research method to help rethink popular social science representations of relationships
Photo/stories from the field: A note on play in children’s research
The concept of play has attained an undisputable place in childhood scholarship where the naturalisation and orthodoxy is hardly been questioned in theory and practice until recently (see Cook, 2016). […]
Photo/Stories from the field: The computer in the room
Dr Christos Varvantakis describes the impact of technology, computer games, and mobile phones on childhood games across the Connectors Study
Photo/Stories from the field: Splat!
Dr Sevasti-Melissa Nolas reflects on pain and embodiment in the research process, and how children adapted their game playing to be more inclusive
Photo/Stories from the field: Can we play now?
Dr Sevasti-Melissa Nolas talks about child participants’ own research agendas, and using playing and games as methodology
Photo/Stories from the field: To part with one’s dolls
Dr Christos Varvantakis explores ‘coming of age’ tropes and temporalities in childhood play, and how ethics and anonymity are understood and enacted
Photo/Stories from the field: Who drew that castle?
One of the things we’ve been interested in the connectors are negotiations: practices, strategies and techniques employed by children to negotiate their wants, their time, play, food, obligations etc. The […]
Desire lines (2)
Children’s map-making can move beyond representations to critically project desires and critique relationships to life beyond the domestic and private