Photo/stories from the field: encountering emotions in the field
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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Author: Vinnarasan Aruldoss
Photo/stories from the field: the traffic, fear, and the city
Vinnarasan Aruldoss reflects on how children’s experiences of public places impact everyday life, play, visiting friends, and navigating neighbourhoods
Read MorePhoto/stories from the field: the curtain as a signifier of ‘private’ and ‘public’ in the research space
Vinnarasan Aruldoss explores the ways participants create symbolically private and public spaces through material practices
Read MorePhoto/stories from the field: A note on play in children’s research
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 …
Read MorePhoto/Stories from the field: An encounter with an unsolicited stranger
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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