Christos Varvantakis, Author at Childhood Publics https://childhoodpublics.org/author/cvarvantakis/ Εxploring the relationship between childhood and public life Tue, 06 Nov 2018 15:54:23 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.8 https://childhoodpublics.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/cropped-CP_ICON_MAIN_512-32x32.png Christos Varvantakis, Author at Childhood Publics https://childhoodpublics.org/author/cvarvantakis/ 32 32 https://childhoodpublics.org/wp-content/uploads/icon.svghttps://childhoodpublics.org/wp-content/uploads/logo.svg 153592530 Photo/stories from the field: portrait of an ethnographer /2018/09/19/portrait-of-an-ethnographer/ /2018/09/19/portrait-of-an-ethnographer/#respond Wed, 19 Sep 2018 08:01:31 +0000 https://childhoodpublics.org/?p=3933

Christos Varvantakis and Melissa Nolas explore what it means to be an ethnographer and do ethnographic research, highlighting the value of play as a research method

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Food, a full plate of memory, and an anthropology of not paying attention: Christos Varvantakis explores the materiality of food in research settings.

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

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Early in the research we provided each child with an inexpensive digital photographic camera to use as part of the data production. The idea was that children would make pictures of their everyday, as well as pictures of things that matter to them – the idea that was driving most of our data collection activities …

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

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On modern fables and story-telling in public space: Christos Varvantakis shares an excerpt from the field

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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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]]> /2017/07/19/photostories-from-the-field-who-drew-that-castle/feed/ 1 1639 Political activism across the life course: Special issue for Contemporary Social Science /2017/07/06/political-activism-across-the-life-course/ /2017/07/06/political-activism-across-the-life-course/#respond Thu, 06 Jul 2017 09:08:19 +0000 https://childhoodpublics.org/?p=1839

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 journey we set off on about a year ago, in our “Activism on the edge of age” workshop – which we organised last June …

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