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
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Inviting in the Figure of the Political Child
Rebecca Webb explains the influence of Rancière’s work on the project, and how notions of ‘rights’ and the ‘political’ child can be interrupted and disrupted by our participants
Read MoreSecond reading group in Brighton and Hyderabad
A few weeks ago we ran our second reading groups at Sussex University in Brighton and at the Centre for Economic and Social Studies (CESS) in Hyderabad. Both groups read Judith Butler’s piece on Rethinking Vulnerability and Resistance. Below Vinnarasan and I have written up a short summary and impressions from the two discussions. Melissa: …
Read MoreThe orator on the bus
Sevasti-Melissa Nolas describes public transport being used as a site for political talk
Read MoreConnecting 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 read a paper by David Oswell who is based in the Sociology department at Goldsmiths. The aim of our reading group is to bring together …
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