Vinnarasan Aruldoss, Author at Childhood Publics https://childhoodpublics.org/author/varuldoss/ Εxploring the relationship between childhood and public life Wed, 31 Oct 2018 13:49:09 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.8 https://www.childhoodpublics.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/cropped-CP_ICON_MAIN_512-32x32.png Vinnarasan Aruldoss, Author at Childhood Publics https://childhoodpublics.org/author/varuldoss/ 32 32 https://childhoodpublics.org/wp-content/uploads/icon.svghttps://childhoodpublics.org/wp-content/uploads/logo.svg 153592530 Photo/stories from the field: encountering emotions in the field /2018/08/29/encountering-emotions-in-the-field/ /2018/08/29/encountering-emotions-in-the-field/#respond Wed, 29 Aug 2018 08:01:28 +0000 https://childhoodpublics.org/?p=3986

Vinnarasan Aruldoss explores messy emotions in everyday life, and calls for a new framework to recognise the value of emotion and affect in research

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Vinnarasan Aruldoss reflects on how children's experiences of public places impact everyday life, play, visiting friends, and navigating neighbourhoods

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Vinnarasan Aruldoss explores the ways participants create symbolically private and public spaces through material practices

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The concept of play has attained an undisputable place in childhood scholarship where the naturalisation and orthodoxy is hardly been questioned in theory and practice until recently (see Cook, 2016). The liberal notion of play is assumed beneficial for children, besides developmental needs, for enabling agency, participation, and voice. Play is also commercialised and politicised …

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Dr Vinnarasan Aruldoss describes strangers interrupting research dynamics and flows, touching on the ethical challenge for privacy in close-knit communities

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What happens to ethics when the process of conducting research itself becomes public? What do we do when adults or parents intervene in data collection?

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Dr Vinnarasan Aruldoss describes moments of banter and teasing in fieldwork, and how these help in building research relationships with children

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In Hyderabad, we usually go on a spree of doing fieldwork in hot summer, as that’s the time schools shut down for long vacation. On a day the temperature was running as high as 45’c in the afternoon, we were up for a visit to Bhavana, one of our research participants that lives in a …

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Dr Vinnarasan Aruldoss explores desire lines, and the analytical threads of understanding ‘emotion’ as an axis point between body and publics/public sphere

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Following the first Connectors reading group held at Sussex we have recently organised our inaugural reading group meeting at Centre for Economic and Social Studies (CESS) in Hyderabad, our local partners for Connectors study. We had a great turn out with the entire staff team of the Division for Child Studies (DCS) in attendance for …

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