Experimenting with ‘live methods’
The Connectors Team reflect on our recent exhibition as ‘live methods’ and offer a summary of the work we’ve been doing during 2017
Tag Archives: childhood publics
Drawing, sounds and play: understanding children’s viewpoints and participation
Francesca Vaghi reflects on our Making Connections workshop and explores how idioms can be used for interpretation and analysis of ‘mundane’ everyday life
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
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 (4)
On April 26 this year I had the opportunity to participate and contribute to a workshop on improving responses to child sexual exploitation (CSE) that was organised by the University […]
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
Desire lines (1)
I started writing this post en route back from Manchester and the British Sociological Association 2017 Annual Conference where the Connectors Study research team attended to present our work. We […]
Writing across borders
Exploring the relationship between childhood and public life: Collaborative writing across disciplines, countries, and technologies
Why today’s ‘kids’ strike’ is an important civics lesson for all
Melissa Nolas examines the way that children’s civics and political actions are understood in the media and in the public consciousness
What do we mean by ‘circuits of social action’? (A first stab of many, no doubt…)
Activism, citizenship, social consciousness and beyond: what are circuits of social action? Dr Nolas explores the what and when of childhood social action
What’s in a name?
Dr Sevasti-Melissa Nolas explores the importance of relationships in understanding children’s participation