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The Children in Child Health:
Negotiating Young Lives and Health in New Zealand
– Rutgers Series in Childhood Studies, 2020 –
What do we lose when we lose children?
Re-childing the COVID-19 pandemic; and what we lose from the un-childed public “As the pandemic has shown, when children are neither seen nor heard they are easily forgotten from the…
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Love and Agency in Ethnographic Fieldwork with Children
Analysing emotions such as love can enable new ways of understanding human relationships and deepen reflexive ethnographic practice. Love in research with children, however, carries a unique set of implications
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Where have all the children been? Children’s unseen contributions to pandemic survival
Amidst the pandemic chaos of 2020 we asked, where have all the children gone? In our podcast that year for AAA’s Raising our Voices we drew attention to children’s silencing…
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What does drawing do for the anthropology of childhood?
Part of the series “Graphic Ethnography on the Rise” published in Fieldsites’ Theorizing the Contemporary. Cite As: Spray, Julie. 2022. “What Does Drawing Do for the Anthropology of Childhood?.” Theorizing the…
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Child Health & Wellbeing News Media
‘A free school lunch isn’t just about hunger but about dignity.’ The Spinoff, 24th May 2021. ‘The social stigma of hungry children.’ Radio New Zealand Nights interview, 2nd June 2021.…
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Pandemic Generation News Media
“Kids draw their pandemic memories” The Spinoff, 30 May 2022 ‘Kea Kids News: Covid comics study shows how kids were left out.” Kea Kids News: Stuff, 13 May 2022 ‘Covid…
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What do Arts-Based Methods Do?
A Story of (what is?) Art and Online Research with Children During a Pandemic By Julie Spray, Jean Hunleth and Hannah Fechtel Spray, Julie, Hannah Fechtel, and Jean Hunleth. 2022.…
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Drawing Perspectives Together: What Happens When Researchers Draw With Children?
What happens when researchers draw with children?
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Drawing Journals
Book Review: Drawing as Ethnographic Practice Drawn to See: Drawing as an Ethnographic Method. By Andrew Causey. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2017.Making Comics. By Lynda Barry. Montreal: Drawn and…
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