Event overview
A seminar presented by Dr Wendy Russell as part of the Anthropology Department Spring seminar series: The Politics of Embodiment.
This talk explores how situated practices of ethnography might be reconfigured in ways that pay attention to the performativity of representation and boundary-making practices. It considers what new materialist, postqualitative approaches offer for an ethical enquiry into children’s play as a question of spatial justice. Defining play is presented as an exclusionary practice tangled up with adult understandings of childhood as an ‘Other’ often invisible in writings about difference. Moving away from conceptualising play as a time and space bound activity, the paper considers how play emerges from the ongoing entanglements of human and nonhuman bodies, affects, histories, etc. in ways that co-produce pleasurable moments of resistance to dominant organisations of time and space.
Wendy Russel discovered adventure playgrounds in the 1970s and was smitten. She's worked in the play sector ever since, in a number of roles, most recently in research and education.
All welcome.
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
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| 22 Feb 2017 | 3:00pm - 5:00pm |
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