Abstract:The article explores how the concept of ‘emotional orientation’ helps us to reimagine the relationship between childhood and public life. By comparing a subset of two ethnographic biographies of underprivileged children, aged 6–8 years from contrasting neighbourhoods in Hyderabad, India, we illustrate the ways in which ‘emotional orientation’ could mediate and signify children’s experiences of public life. The analysis builds on the girls’ common experience of ‘scolding’ to map out the visceral aspects of pove… Show more
“…In this approachaffective phenomena are approached with a view to their embeddedness within ongoing complex situations in which various actors, objects, spaces, artifacts, technologies and modes of interaction coalesce, all contributing to the particular character of the affective process in question (ibid, p. 7).From a queered phenomenological perspective, Sara Ahmed (2014) conceptualizes emotion as ‘crucial to the very constitution of the psychic and the social as objects’ (p.10), something that is embodied and circulates, something that ‘moves’ us and connects us. Drawing on this perspective, Aruldoss et al (2021) ask how emotions matter in the ways in which children orient themselves towards public life and argue that emotions shape children's orientation towards people, objects and public life. They draw on Reddy (1997) to emphasize that this has a consequence for children's capacity ‘to embrace, revise or reject’ (p. 133) a public sphere.…”
Section: Conceptual Analytical Discussion: Main Areas For Further Con...mentioning
confidence: 99%
“…From a queered phenomenological perspective, Sara Ahmed (2014) conceptualizes emotion as 'crucial to the very constitution of the psychic and the social as objects' (p.10), something that is embodied and circulates, something that 'moves' us and connects us. Drawing on this perspective, Aruldoss et al (2021) ask how emotions matter in the ways in which children orient themselves towards public life and argue that emotions shape children's orientation towards people, objects and public life. They draw on Reddy (1997) to emphasize that this has a consequence for children's capacity 'to embrace, revise or reject' (p. 133) a public sphere.…”
Section: Politicizing Emotion: the Power Of Affective Relations In Ev...mentioning
This article proposes that more attention should be paid to how mediated civic engagements are shaped in a family context. Through an interpretive literature review of research that studies the family's role in mediating civic engagement, we identify several problematic conceptual understandings that create rigid distinctions between the family sphere and its members' civic engagement, as well as between their analogue and digital engagements. The article introduces a conceptual framework that has implications for further research on mediated civic engagement by taking into consideration parents', children and youth's emotions and affective relations as relevant for engaging in the civic realm.
“…In this approachaffective phenomena are approached with a view to their embeddedness within ongoing complex situations in which various actors, objects, spaces, artifacts, technologies and modes of interaction coalesce, all contributing to the particular character of the affective process in question (ibid, p. 7).From a queered phenomenological perspective, Sara Ahmed (2014) conceptualizes emotion as ‘crucial to the very constitution of the psychic and the social as objects’ (p.10), something that is embodied and circulates, something that ‘moves’ us and connects us. Drawing on this perspective, Aruldoss et al (2021) ask how emotions matter in the ways in which children orient themselves towards public life and argue that emotions shape children's orientation towards people, objects and public life. They draw on Reddy (1997) to emphasize that this has a consequence for children's capacity ‘to embrace, revise or reject’ (p. 133) a public sphere.…”
Section: Conceptual Analytical Discussion: Main Areas For Further Con...mentioning
confidence: 99%
“…From a queered phenomenological perspective, Sara Ahmed (2014) conceptualizes emotion as 'crucial to the very constitution of the psychic and the social as objects' (p.10), something that is embodied and circulates, something that 'moves' us and connects us. Drawing on this perspective, Aruldoss et al (2021) ask how emotions matter in the ways in which children orient themselves towards public life and argue that emotions shape children's orientation towards people, objects and public life. They draw on Reddy (1997) to emphasize that this has a consequence for children's capacity 'to embrace, revise or reject' (p. 133) a public sphere.…”
Section: Politicizing Emotion: the Power Of Affective Relations In Ev...mentioning
This article proposes that more attention should be paid to how mediated civic engagements are shaped in a family context. Through an interpretive literature review of research that studies the family's role in mediating civic engagement, we identify several problematic conceptual understandings that create rigid distinctions between the family sphere and its members' civic engagement, as well as between their analogue and digital engagements. The article introduces a conceptual framework that has implications for further research on mediated civic engagement by taking into consideration parents', children and youth's emotions and affective relations as relevant for engaging in the civic realm.
“…Research with younger children in schools and communities corroborates this response to such sonic experiences. Children in classrooms and communities report experiences of being quietened and stilled (Kirby 2020) and 'scolded' (Aruldoss, Nolas, and Varvantakis 2021) respectively, their teachers and other members of their communities requesting their bodily conformity (Kirby 2020), their 'good' and quiet behaviour.…”
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The essay reflects on the children's environmental movement from the perspective of cultural theory, as well as the authors' own and others' research on children's encounters, experiences and engagement in public life. The concepts of political knowingness, childhood publics, and listening publics are evoked to think through the surprise that the children's environmental movement generated in the public sphere. The idiom is positioned as an audience 'hearing aid' for turning babbling into political messages. In so doing we find that the messages from the children's environmental movement are not out of place in the current humanities and social sciences literatures on the Anthropocene.
“…Another line of research focuses on children’s encounters, experiences, and engagements in the urban setting and their emotional orientation to public life (Bartos, 2013; den Besten, 2010; Lutz, 2017; Sayer, 2011). Also, one part of the growing literature on urbanization and gender studies focuses on girls’ experiences in an urban setting, which are different from boys’ with high numbers of sexual harassment and sexual gratification (Aruldoss et al, 2020), and the specific case of female street children (Kaiser and Sinanan, 2020).…”
Children are important actors in the urban areas of Turkey since they make up the largest demographic group. Therefore, the reasons behind their being regarded as ‘passive’ should be re-examined, in view of the fact that they live and work in, and create and recreate the city. The purpose of this study is to elaborate the children’s right to the city concept from two different points of view using liberal and radical approaches within the theoretical framework provided by Marcuse in the right to the city discourse. The reason for choosing Marcuse is that at some points, his arguments meet with both a liberal and radical understanding of the right to the city. Therefore, these two approaches will be compared regarding children’s right to the city in Turkey in light of related literature. In the last part of the study, children’s right to the city will be discussed from these two perspectives with the particular case of street children derived from findings in the literature. It is revealed that while there are significant developments in Turkey at local and international level in terms of children’s right to the city and street children, there is still a need for a strengths-based perspective which positions children as active agents making decisions about their own lives and formation of urban space.
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