Mapping children’s play and violence in Kashmir

Childhood ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 354-368
Author(s):  
Aatina Nasir Malik
Keyword(s):  
Political Violence ◽  
Game Playing ◽  
Children's Play ◽  
Ethnographic Fieldwork ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Children’S Play ◽  
Everyday Reality

In Kashmir, the entrenchment of political violence in the everyday has marked a shift from understanding Kashmiris as passive receivers of violence to agentic beings; however, much attention has not been paid to the experiences of children. Based on ethnographic fieldwork in one of the downtown neighbourhoods in Srinagar, this article would look at the everyday of children by focusing on their game playing. Analysing two games, that is, Military-Mujahid and PUBG (Player Unknown’s Battlegrounds), the article highlights how playing blurs the lines between spectacular and everyday, and actual and virtual/imaginary, establishing itself as a part of children’s everyday reality.

Performances of Police Legitimacy in Rio's Hyper Favela

2013 ◽  
Vol 38 (03) ◽  
pp. 553-575 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erika Robb Larkins
Keyword(s):  
Police Legitimacy ◽  
State Control ◽  
Special Forces ◽  
City Life ◽  
State Legitimacy ◽  
Ethnographic Fieldwork ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Drug Traffickers ◽  
Everyday Reality ◽  
The City

Rio de Janeiro is home to over one-thousand favelas (slums), the majority of which are controlled by armed drug traffickers engaged in a long-standing war with police. This article shows how state legitimacy is challenged by the everyday reality of dual power, postcolonial legacies of inequality and marginalization, and a porous culture of law. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in one of the largest favelas in the city, I argue that police actions revolve around the enactment of violent spectacle, performed by the Elite Special Forces, BOPE. The use of performative violence, however, rather than shoring up state control at the margins of city life, works instead to undermine police (and state) authority.

Play in Childhood: An Anthropological Perspective

1998 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 104-109 ◽  
Author(s):  
Allison James
Keyword(s):  
Power Relations ◽  
Critical Assessment ◽  
Anthropological Perspective ◽  
Children's Play ◽  
Ethnographic Fieldwork ◽  
Children’S Play ◽  
Anthropological Approach ◽  
Social Affairs

This paper offers a critical assessment and some illustrations of an anthropological approach to the study of children's play. It argues that universal definitions of play are problematic and that therefore attention should be paid to the local definitions of play operative in any culture. This includes, importantly, the meanings that children attribute to and generate through their play. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork the paper illustrates just one aspect of children's play: the different ways in which play facilitates power relations to be articulated, upheld, and challenged. In this sense play is revealed to be far from a frivolous activity. Instead, it is a serious medium through which children conduct their social affairs.

Knowing and Feeling in Children's Play

1995 ◽  
Vol 40 (9) ◽  
pp. 854-855
Author(s):  
Karin Lifter
Keyword(s):  
Children's Play ◽  
Children’S Play

Preschool children’s play and alignments in a bracketed framing of a music-technological breakdown

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 120-142
Author(s):  
Pernilla Lagerlöf ◽  
Louise Peterson
Keyword(s):  
Social Interaction ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Detailed Analysis ◽  
Music Technology ◽  
Popular Media ◽  
Media Culture ◽  
Children's Play ◽  
Experimental Activity ◽  
Children’S Play

Music technologies are becoming important in children's play in everyday life, but research on children's communication and interaction in such activities is still scarce. This study examines three children's social interaction in an 'experimental' activity in preschool, when the music technology breaks down. Detailed analysis is carried out by using a Goffmanian approach. The findings illustrate the children's interpretive framings of the adult's introduction and their orientation to the technological material in order to perform different alignments and how they change footings. The children's social interaction is organised according to the playful framing of the bracketed activity. This suggests the significance to pay attention to children's definitions of situations and to consider children's experiences of participation in popular media culture.

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