The Project

This webpage is a harvest from a PhD research titled "Social Spaces of Child Play: Urban Discourses, Identities, Practices and Imaginaries". It pays particular attention to slum-dwelling children's use of spaces. This research also foregrounds the importance of children as co-creators of geographical  knowledge. This work focuses on how children, for, by, and among themselves, create meaning about their everyday play spaces, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic. Under conditions of spatial constraints, children's environment within their immediate spaces give the preconditions on how they experience play, which shapes how they make sense of their spaces. The focus is on what children's everyday spaces affords them through the tapestry of play encounters during the pandemic. Children have shared spaces and negotiated their presence in common spaces of informalities. However, that children share spaces does not necessarily mean engendering a common viewpoint. Instead, children deal with negotiating the art of proximity and distance in their common space. As such, this work captures children's sense-making of their everyday play environments and relations. It is then important to ask how children understand both their limits and opportunities within the informalities they play at, together with the discourses they use, identities they shape, and practices they act on.

The Researcher

I am Aireen Grace Andal, a PhD researcher under a Double-PhD track in Social Science (Macquarie University, Australia) and Social Philosophy (Ural Federal University, Russian Federation). As a research fellow at the Centre of Global Urbanism (Ural Federal University), my research pays particular attention to children's use of urban spaces and the importance of children as co-creators of knowledge in urbanity. I am also a research fellow at the Space for Engagement and Epistemic Diversity (SEED) (University of Melbourne). Majority of my academic engagements involve children's voices on the urban spaces they occupy, with emphasis on slum-dwelling communities. My recent publications include topics in the fields of children's geographies, childhood studies, and urban and regional studies, while serving as a reviewer of manuscripts related to global childhood studies. I am a scholar for and with children and their spaces. My research mission is devoted to making children's voices heard, their insights acknowledged, and their lives seen—matters that are hitherto often dismissed.

Webpage crafted with fun by Aireen. All rights reserved for the children of "bundok"
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