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. What does this exclusion mean for children’s roles in public health crises – and for the health of the public?
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… Read more What do we lose when we lose children? →
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 of children’s erasure, and drew from the anthropology of childhood to suggest how we might think about and un-silence children’s experiences of the pandemic. Two years on, we this time ask: where have all the children been?
“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… Read more Pandemic Generation News Media →
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.… Read more What do Arts-Based Methods Do? →
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