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Re-thinking crisis. Children's perspective 
Convenors:
Maria Reimann (University of Warsaw)
Magdalena Radkowska-Walkowicz (University of Warsaw)
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Format:
Panel
Stream:
BASE (Bodies, Affects, Senses, Emotions)
:
Room H-209
Sessions:
Tuesday 14 June, -
Time zone: Europe/London

Short Abstract:

This panel focuses on the ways in which children experience and think about crisis. We invite papers that look at children's perspectives on different crisis (divorce, migration, illness) in order to understand the meanings children attach to them and allow their voices become part of the debate.

Long Abstract:

This panel focuses on the ways in which children and teenagers experience, think about, and cope with crisis. We invite papers that look at children's perspectives on different forms of crisis such as for example parental divorce, migration, disability/illness, poverty, climate change, or pandemic. We would also like to redefine crisis by looking at it not only from ethic but also from emic perspective and therefore we invite papers which aim to understand what children themselves consider difficult and what is not necessarily seen as such by the adults.

Children are often conceptualized as helpless and at risk. Situation of crisis makes their position even more vulnerable. At the same time, the situation of crisis allows us to see different dimensions of children's agency. Crisis may reveal children's competences that are invisible on a daily basis, as well as new power relations.

In this panel we would like to look at children as competent actors with their own needs, views, and ethics, that should be heard and taken into account by adults and policymakers. We would like to re-think crisis by allowing children's voices and perspectives become part of the debate on crisis and finding solutions to it. We invite both empirical and methodological papers that try to shed light on the complex position of children in contemporary world.

Accepted papers:

Session 1 Tuesday 14 June, 2022, -
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