On transitions, change and continuity…
This time five years ago I was busy drafting job descriptions for the recruitment of those strangers that would eventual make up the wonderful team of colleagues that have been […]
Tag Archives: publics
Photo/stories from the field: postcards and polaroids
Melissa Nolas describes the use of postcards and polaroids as a cultural intervention to challenge the dominant cultural narratives of childhood
In Common: what’s in a name?
How do children encounter, experience, and engage with public life? How having things ‘in common’ has influenced our forthcoming exhibition and book
Photo/Stories from the field: A dog’s statue (and the story behind it)
On modern fables and story-telling in public space: Christos Varvantakis shares an excerpt from the field
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
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 (3)
Dr Vinnarasan Aruldoss explores desire lines, and the analytical threads of understanding ‘emotion’ as an axis point between body and publics/public sphere
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
The orator on the bus
Sevasti-Melissa Nolas describes public transport being used as a site for political talk
Connecting through texts
As part of the Connectors Study we have launched a regular reading group, the first of which happened last week at Sussex when a group of us got together to […]