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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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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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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…
