The Red Blanket: A dance of animacy

MacRae, Christina

doi:10.1177/2043610619832899

Cited by 17 publications

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“…I became aware that by following the movements of children, my responses to children were also in motion at the same time as being ‘in the moment’. Inhabitation was itself a form of co-experimentation that responded to the movements of other bodies, and this methodology was well suited in reframing Piaget’s sensory motor ‘stage’ more as an ‘ongoing minor key’ that continued to have a life beyond infancy (MacRae, 2019: 4).…”

Section: Slow Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%

Tactful hands and vibrant mattering in the sand tray

MacRae

2020

Journal of Early Childhood Literacy

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This paper reflects on a slow-motion video clip of the hands of three young children as they play with toys in the sand tray. It foregrounds sand and toys that are handled, as well as hands that grasp and relinquish things. Through this movement of hands that tug and pull at things, it explores how things animate bodies, and how this produces the felt-sense of other desiring bodies. As hands tender things, they are animated by what they touch, and simultaneously things are animated through the give and take of pulls and pushes of desire expressed as kinetic force. The slowed film of hands in motion draws our attention from words, towards a (re)cognition of a sensed intelligence which is not pre-language, but is produced before language, as well as with language. Arguing that child development theories are inextricably bound up in narratives of human exceptionalism founded in language and moralism, I will make the case for reinstating sense as a mode of attention in order to counter a lack that is perceived until children learn language. By troubling the boundaries that we draw between the animal and the human, there is much to learn from very young children when we seriously attend to their capacity for sensory ways of knowing that are so often eclipsed by the dominance of language.

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Section: Slow Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%

Tactful hands and vibrant mattering in the sand tray

MacRae

2020

Journal of Early Childhood Literacy

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“…We do this by working in an alternative paradigm, the ethico-aesthetic. Following, Rolnik (2017), but also Guattari (1995), Braidotti (2006) and scholars in curriculum studies (Springgay and Rotas 2015), early childhood studies (Dahlberg 2016;Hackett 2017;MacRae 2019;Trafí-Prats 2018, and environmental education (Rousell and Cutter-McKenzie-Knowles 2018), we understand an ethico-aesthetic paradigm as one that engages in sensuous and affirmative becomings with bodies, materials and technologies that endanger the perpetuation of neoliberalized parenting by generating embryos of other possible parental worlds (Rolnik 2017). We follow Guattari (2000) in considering that parental ecologies could be transformed through new aesthetic and analytic practices that intensify sense and affect.…”

Section: Towards An Ethico-aesthetic Paradigm Of Parentingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Towards an Ethico-Aesthetic of Parenting: Sensing Ritornellos of Play with GoPro Data

Trafí-Prats

Caton

2020

Genealogy

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This article argues for an ethico-aesthetic approach to parenting as an alternative to the neoliberalisation of parenting, and its critiques. This ethico-aesthetic approach focuses on affect and the intensification of collective life. In the article, it is explored in connection to a group of parents and children under six who participated in a play event called Moving with lines and light. As parents, researchers and players who participated in this play event, the authors think together with fragments of GoPro data and the concept of the ritornello. They do this as an exercise in sensing the non-linear time of parenting in/with the play through a prolonged, active and relational process of recollection and narration that combines analogic and technologic events. With these, the authors discuss the parenting body in postdevelopmental modes of existence organized around sense, territory and technicity that propel a thinking of parenting beyond practices of symbolic control, and as living ecologies of action.

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“…Moves to destabilize dualisms and work more adequately with assemblages, events, entanglements, milieus, multispecies, intra-actions, and ad hoc groupings in the early years are interrogated by scholars such as Rautio (2013), MacRae (2019), Hackett and Somerville (2017), Osgood and Robinson (2019), Murris (2019), Hohti and Tammi (2019), Jones et al (2012), Trafí-Prats (2019), Cutter-Mackenzie-Knowles et al (2019), MacLure (2013a), and Pacini-Ketchabaw and Taylor (2015). These scholars resist preoccupations with the privileged human who can know, represent, and act on the world.…”

Section: We Are All In This Togethermentioning

confidence: 99%

Paroxysm: The Problem of the Fist

Holmes

2020

Cultural Studies ↔ Critical Methodologies

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This article is about movement, documenting a researcher’s reading, seeing, and feeling with the flaring movements of a young child’s clenched fists as he punches the air in an early years’ classroom. Drawing on postqualitative inquiry and feminist new materialisms, the article aims to engage with a series of images to think otherwise about the fists, aiming to nudge the researcher’s gaze to attend to the unfolding affective forces of movement’s encounters and compositions that touch the structure of subjectivity. The first part of the article addresses the importance of returning to early years’ events to slow them down and open up spaces for not knowing so quickly what seems to unfold in/to the classroom. As an ongoing provocation of thought, I am interested in resisting the accelerated temporality of education by re-turning these images over and over, hovering over the surfaces of histories and politics to interrupt associative chains of thinking–feeling. The article then moves into the problems posed by the fists, stirring the sediments and deposits that are rapidly set in motion as the fists flare. Recognizing the affects of congealed language that genders and racializes my sense-making apparatus, the article mixes in stock notions of the child, reducing him to a body in pugilistic rebellion. The article finally turns to consider movement as another way of becoming oriented within one’s environment. The moving fist-assemblage becomes a potent thread that gathers and disperses meaning and bodies, politics and history, form and movement, and being natural and ideological, material and semiotic.

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The Red Blanket: A dance of animacy

Cited by 17 publications

References 27 publications

Tactful hands and vibrant mattering in the sand tray

Tactful hands and vibrant mattering in the sand tray

Towards an Ethico-Aesthetic of Parenting: Sensing Ritornellos of Play with GoPro Data

Paroxysm: The Problem of the Fist

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