Christos Varvantakis reflects on walking practices and embodied encounters with green space and the environment

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Christos and Melissa reflect on 'configuring matters' as a research method to help rethink popular social science representations of relationships

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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 Christos Varvantakis describes the impact of technology, computer games, and mobile phones on childhood games across the Connectors Study

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Dr Sevasti-Melissa Nolas reflects on pain and embodiment in the research process, and how children adapted their game playing to be more inclusive

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Dr Sevasti-Melissa Nolas talks about child participants’ own research agendas, and using playing and games as methodology

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Dr Christos Varvantakis explores ‘coming of age’ tropes and temporalities in childhood play, and how ethics and anonymity are understood and enacted

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  One of the things we’ve been interested in the connectors are negotiations: practices, strategies and techniques employed by children to negotiate their wants, their time, play, food, obligations etc. The following instance is a vivid example of strategic thinking around avoiding being punished – and yet getting credit for one’s artwork! — Who drew …

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Children's map-making can move beyond representations to critically project desires and critique relationships to life beyond the domestic and private

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