Contribution short abstract:

This work analyses the possibilities of collaborative and multi-perspectival digital video in creating affective and non-adult-centred practices in research with children.

Contribution long abstract:

This presentation addresses the ethical and political implications of the use of video as a practice to engage young people and include their experiences and perspectives in academic and artistic research. It looks at the question of how video making can provide spaces to children and young people became active agents in registering and publicizing the long, but poorly documented, history of children’s participation, co-creation, and activism. Although there is a rise in global awareness of children’s activism and agency, there is also an ongoing tendency to commit what Marah Gubar (2018) defines as "aetonormative amnesia", that is, to deliberately relegate young people's political actions to oblivion. This work analyses the possibilities of collaborative and multi-perspectival digital video (Gallagher and Kim, 2008; Balt, 2020; Damasio and Mistry, 2020; Klaue and Zimper, 2020) in creating affective and non-adult-centred practices in qualitative research with children. It discusses how video making co-creation with children can challenge the historical representation of children as “incomplete” and “unfinished”, and their re-imaging and re-imagining “child”, “children” and “childhood”.