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Pecha-kucha on play
Pecha-kucha presentations contain exactly 20 slides that are displayed for 20 seconds each. The slides contain no text, only images, and in the following video are accompanied by my critical take on the…
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Parts loose?
What drives me is the urge to follow in the careful footsteps of Le Guin’s (1985) Eve and unname. We need to pull apart and critique the ways play is currently taken in…
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Risky play of late-liberalism
Risky play, defined generally as outdoor play with a risk of physical injury, is being encouraged from all directions. Even governmental organizations and agencies, previously reluctant to shake up the moto of utmost…
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Boy, Wind, Gilles + Félix
The north wind whips through, in the streets papers and leaves are chased with resentment. Houses moan, dogs curl into balls. There is something in the afternoon’s finger, a catfish spine, a rusty nail. from The north wind whips by Víctor…
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Playing with a sense of promiscuity
Understanding play as a field of messy, uneven relationships suggests a kind of awkward dynamic tactile/imaginary shape that may be hard to capture but is attractive to think with. I imagine playing coming of Barad’s (2015) queer…
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Mapping Children’s Place Stories 绘制儿童的故事地图
The following is an excerpt from an English translation of an article published in Shanghai Education, 2021: Our research, pedagogical work and everyday moments with children are united by situating educational practices in…
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Sweet Sweaty Play
The following is an excerpt from Sweet Sweaty Play, published in PNO Magazine [3] in June 2021. Please click below to read the article in its entirety. Zakharova, T. (2021, June). Sweet Sweaty…
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The Materiality of Play: Early Childhood Education Research in Diffractive Dialogue with Dance as an Artistic Practice
The following talk was delivered as part of York University Early Childhood Education Series hosted by Cristina Delgado Vintimilla, Lucy Angus and Lisa Farley. Tatiana Zakharova and Justine A. Chambers Monday April 19,…
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Dis/Comfort
Some years ago, on her blog Feminist Killjoys (as well as in her book Queer Phenomenology (2004), Sarah Ahmed wrote about comfort, in the context of thinking about racism and whiteness and heterosexuality…
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Choreography of branches and prison yards
Freedom is here not linked to human volition, nor is it allied to internationality or agency. Freedom is instead allied to the in-act, to the decisional force of movement-moving, to the agencement that…
