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Denaturalising the “adult voice”
Childhood studies has spent a long time deconstructing “the child’s voice.” But what has this attention to children’s “voices” meant we overlook? Most child-centred research involves adult researchers, then children’s voices are produced through researcher-participant dialogue, meaning we need to…
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The Public-in-Waiting
Are children part of the public in “public health”? Using a critical discourse analysis of NZ’s Covid public health political & media messaging, we conclude: no, but children’s representations are TOOLS of public health, used to influence the adult public.…
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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 imaginary “public” in public health […] Thus marginalized, children have…
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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 in COVID-19 policy and media reports, speculated on the consequences…
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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 Contemporary, Fieldsights, July 28. https://culanth.org/fieldsights/what-does-drawing-do-for-the-anthropology-of-childhood
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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. “What Do Arts-Based Methods Do? A Story of (What Is)…
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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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