Dept of Childhood Studies, Rutgers University Camden ...

Smruthi Bala Kannan

Dept of Childhood Studies, Rutgers University Camden

Why?

Health Hygiene and Sanitation Discourses

Ethnography with Children in School

Tamil Nadu, India

Why?

Dissertation titled ‘Clean Bodies in School’

What?

Exploratory and Subjective Map-making

How?

Prompts

Materials

Constraints

Theory

Children’s agency/voice

Navigation ---> Wayfinding ←-- Wayfaring

Critical Cartography

Questions

What do the children pay attention to?

How they decide on navigation?

How do they relate to their environment?

Object-Trails

Appadurai, Arjun. 1988. ‘The Social Life of Things: Commodities in Cultural Perspectives.’University of Cambridge Press.

Drazin, Adam. 2015. “To live in a materials world”. The Social Life of Materials: Studies in materials and society (ed. Adam Drazin and Susanne Küchler). NY and London: Bloomsbury. pg. 3-28.

Question: how do objects enter, move through, and exit children’s attention?

Prompt: Follow an object or a material through different trajectories.

Object-Trails

Time Layering

Lefebvre, H. (2004). Rhythmanalysis: Space, time, and everyday life (S.Elden, & G.Moore, Trans.). London: Continuum.

Question: how do different rhythms/cycles of bodies, institutions, and environmental entities interact in a place?

Prompt: 1) they create a timeline of their daily routine, 2) they chart out the everyday/or seasonal routine changes in a place

Time Layering

Emotion Mapping

Ahmed, Sara. 2004. The Cultural Politics of Emotion. Routledge.

Question: how do the children feel in different places?

Prompt: they map how they felt as individuals and as a group in different settings

Emotion Mapping

Conclusion

Research for Children/ on Children ----> Research with Children

Conclusion

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