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CCYSC Awaaz

38 episodes - English - Latest episode: almost 2 years ago -

Hosted by members of the Critical Childhoods and Youth Studies Collective (CCYSC), CCYSC Awaaz is a series of interviews and conversations with researchers and practitioners engaging with youth and childhood.

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Ep. 35 Conversations with Prayatn: A Youth Collective from India

March 30, 2022 21:37 - 47 minutes - 44.4 MB

प्रयत्न एक आदिवासी युवा समूह है जिसने भारत में पश्चिम बंगाल के जलपाईगुड़ी के चाय बागान क्षेत्र में शिक्षा, सामाजिक जागरूकता और अपने समुदाय के सशक्तिकरण की दिशा में 10 वर्षों से अधिक समय तक काम किया है। वे छात्रों को उच्च अध्ययन के लिए सलाह देते हैं और तैयार करते हैं एवं बुजुर्गों तक मदद पहुंचते हैं। इसके अलावा अन्य कार्यक्रमों जैसे कि, यौन शोषण के शिकार लोगों का समर्थन करते हैं और यहां तक कि स्थानीय सफाई अभियान भी चलाते हैं। यह एक इंटरव्यू (साक्षात्कार) है जो ज्योति के द्वारा प्रयातन के तीन ...

Ep. 35 A Youth Collective from India: Prayatn

March 30, 2022 21:37 - 47 minutes - 44.4 MB

प्रयत्न एक आदिवासी युवा समूह है जिसने भारत में पश्चिम बंगाल के जलपाईगुड़ी के चाय बागान क्षेत्र में शिक्षा, सामाजिक जागरूकता और अपने समुदाय के सशक्तिकरण की दिशा में 10 वर्षों से अधिक समय तक काम किया है। वे छात्रों को उच्च अध्ययन के लिए सलाह देते हैं और तैयार करते हैं एवं बुजुर्गों तक मदद पहुंचते हैं। इसके अलावा अन्य कार्यक्रमों जैसे कि, यौन शोषण के शिकार लोगों का समर्थन करते हैं और यहां तक कि स्थानीय सफाई अभियान भी चलाते हैं। यह एक इंटरव्यू (साक्षात्कार) है जो ज्योति के द्वारा प्रयातन के तीन ...

Ep. 34 Thinking Critically about Methods in Childhood Research

February 28, 2022 11:35 - 58 minutes - 53.8 MB

Seran Demiral interviews Spyros Spyrou one more time shifting the conversation this time from the politics of childhood to the challenges and opportunities of participation practices. While Demiral questions possibilities of researching with children and the potential of their becoming primary researchers, Spyrou brings in critical perspectives on methodology in childhood studies related to access to participation, the diverse capabilities of research subjects and the different ways through ...

Ep. 33 Young people's literary engagement and collaborative translation

February 05, 2022 10:00 - 29 minutes - 27.4 MB

In this episode, Marina Cartier interviews Dr Clémentine Beauvais about translation and childhood studies. The discussion is about Dr Clémentine Beauvais' research on the educational use of translation in the classroom through literary translation workshops. Dr Clémentine Beauvais explains to us the principles and organisation of this workshop and her particular interest and focuses on literary and aesthetic skills that emerge during these literary translation exercises. She also shares what...

Ep. 32 Sex, Sexuality and Sex Education

January 15, 2022 10:00 - 27 minutes - 25.6 MB

In India, as with many other nations, sexuality education is fairly limited. As a result, many individuals are left with a lot of unanswered questions which cause problems once they mature and become sexually active. So, in this episode of CCYSC Awaaz, Ayushi Misra, a masters student at Ambedkar University Delhi, and Ramya Anand, a senior  manager at TARSHI, discuss the importance of providing a comprehensive sexuality education to children and young adults. TARSHI is a Delhi-based non-gove...

Ep. 31 The Kingdom is a Game

December 15, 2021 12:00 - 52 minutes - 48.7 MB

Yamila Rodríguez and Seran Demiral interview Basia Vucic on children's literature, democratic education and how the child impacts and changes the political circumstances around for the final episode of this series* through a frame of Janusz Korczak's famous novel for children: King Matt the First. On the one hand, the conversation investigates the functions of literature and Korczak's developing strategies as a fiction writer in addition to being an educator and child rights defender; on the...

Ep. 30 Understanding Rural Lives and Livelihoods: Young People's Engagements with Education and Work in India [Part-II]

November 30, 2021 12:50 - 32 minutes - 30.2 MB

This podcast features a conversation with Dr Peggy Froerer (Reader, Anthropology) and Dr Gunjan Wadhwa (ESRC Postdoctoral Fellow, Education), Brunel University London. It discusses Dr Froerer's work with the historically marginalised Adivasi communities in rural parts of Central India (Chhattisgarh) with a particular focus on young people's engagements with education and its entanglements with work and livelihoods. Dr Froerer critically highlights the continuities and tensions between the gl...

Ep. 29 Understanding Rural Lives and Livelihoods: Young People's Engagements with Education and Work in India [Part-I]

November 30, 2021 12:48 - 30 minutes - 28.5 MB

This podcast features a conversation with Dr Peggy Froerer (Reader, Anthropology) and Dr Gunjan Wadhwa (ESRC Postdoctoral Fellow, Education), Brunel University London. It discusses Dr Froerer's work with the historically marginalised Adivasi communities in rural parts of Central India (Chhattisgarh) with a particular focus on young people's engagements with education and its entanglements with work and livelihoods. Dr Froerer critically highlights the continuities and tensions between the gl...

Ep. 28 There is No Plan(et) B: Youth Activism in the Fight against Climate Change in Cyprus

November 14, 2021 07:29 - 47 minutes - 43.8 MB

In this episode, Seran Demiral interviews Spyros Spyrou on how children and young people make sense of climate change and the climate crisis, how they see their role as climate activists and how younger generations imagine the future. Pointing out the policy brief, which has given the conversation its title, There is No Plan(et) B: youth activism in the fight against climate change in Cyprus, Spyrou mentions childhood activism in  schools about climate change. Through Demiral's questions abo...

Ep. 27 Problematizing Law, Rights, and Childhood in Israel/Palestine

October 30, 2021 21:27 - 51 minutes - 47.9 MB

This episode features a conversation with Dr. Hedi Viterbo and Ekta Oza. They discuss Dr. Viterbo's new book, Problematizing Law, Rights, and Childhood in Israel/Palestine (Cambridge University Press, 2021). Bridging disciplinary divides, and drawing on hundreds of previously unexamined sources (many of which are not publicly available), this book radically challenges our picture of childhood, human rights, and law, both in and beyond the Israel/Palestine context. In the book, Dr. Viterbo re...

Ep.26 A Girl Child's Voice Too Matters [Part-I]

October 20, 2021 13:53 - 30 minutes - 28.2 MB

Girls’ voices are often neglected or disregarded, but a girl child’s voice needs to be heard too and we need to give an ear to the messages that her chattering sound waves produce. Today we will be listening to the suffering of a girl child as double marginalised being a disable as well through the perspective of Alice Walker’s idea of womanism. A transcript of the episode in English is available here. Supriya Ghosh is a scholar from Azim Premji University. She is currently a content devel...

Ep. 25 Challenging patriarchy through children's stories: An interview with the late Kamla Bhasin.

October 09, 2021 08:34 - 31 minutes - 29.3 MB

!Trigger Warning! This episode contains mentions of child sexual abuse between 25:18-25:39. This 25th episode of CCYSC Awaaz is a tribute to the fearless activism and extraordinary life of Kamla Bhasin, poet, story teller, feminist, activist, and a pioneer in many endeavours. The interview follows Simran, a student pursuing her masters degree in education at Ambedkar University Delhi, in conversation with Kamla Bhasin as they discuss her journey towards writing, her books, what goes into th...

Ep. 24 Is the climate crisis a child rights crisis?

September 30, 2021 16:16 - 28 minutes - 26.3 MB

The central theme of this conversation is children and the climate crisis. In this Podcast episode, Dr Tanu Biswas and Jyotsna Singh explore how the climate crisis has evolved over the years. The conversation addresses various stakeholders engaged in the debate on the climate crisis. Dr Tanu Biswas explains her opinions and experiences related to the Fridays for Future movement and youth activism. During their conversation, Biswas and Singh also create linkages between childism and the clima...

Ep. 23 Seeing Like a Child: Inheriting the Korean War

August 15, 2021 18:11 - 1 hour - 64.9 MB

This episode features a conversation with Clara Han and Andrew Brandel. They discuss Dr Han's recent book, Seeing Like a Child: Inheriting the Korean War (Fordham University Press, 2020), which explores the violence of the Korean War through the perspective of a child. In this book, Clara Han writes from inside her childhood memories as the daughter of parents who were displaced by war, and simultaneously, as an anthropologist whose fieldwork has taken her to the devastated worlds of her par...

Ep. 22 Children and Youth as Subjects, Objects, Agents

July 22, 2021 09:22 - 48 minutes - 66 MB

This episode discusses the recently published book, Children and Youth as Subjects, Objects, Agents: Innovative Approaches to Research Across Space and Time, co-edited by Deborah Levison, Mary Jo Maynes, and Frances Vavrus. This volume features a wide range of essays that showcase a variety of approaches to the interdisciplinary field of childhood and youth studies, examining how young people in a range of contemporary and historical contexts around the globe live their young lives as subjec...

Ep. 21 'Winning Lebanon': 20th Century Youth Politics in the Middle East

June 26, 2021 14:05 - 38 minutes - 35.5 MB

In this episode Peter Wien hosts Dylan Baun for a discussion of 20th century youth politics in the Middle East based on Baun's recent book Winning Lebanon: Youth Politics, Populism, and the Production of Sectarian Violence, 1920-1958 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021). The conversation covers Lebanese youth organizations from their inception in the period of French Mandate rule between the two World Wars to the first Lebanese civil war of 1958. Despite the similarities between the...

Ep. 20 Educating the Educator

April 30, 2021 17:55 - 1 hour - 39.1 MB

In the second episode of the series with Basia Vucic about education and childhood, Yamila Rodríguez and Seran Demiral revisit child-centered approaches within a critical perspective by pointing out Janusz Korczak's experience with Polish children in between two wars through an experiment of building a democratic community. Basia both reveals the differences underlying between Korczak pedagogy and social psychologists, like Jean Piaget and Lev Vygotsky, and explained a unique concept Praeter...

Ep. 19 The Born Criminal

April 15, 2021 05:51 - 1 hour - 48 MB

In the first episode of this series, Yamila Rodríguez and Seran Demiral speak with Basia Vucic, who is an expert on the philosophy of education -and especially on JK educational philosophy- from UCL, London (UK) about the good or evil nature of the child in the history of childhood and its relation with criminological theories and educational approaches. Yamila Rodríguez, Lawyer & PhD Scholar, Department of Law, University of Buenos Aires, researches the extension of the international oblig...

Ep. 18 In conversation with Baduku- Center for Livelihood Learning

March 31, 2021 12:19 - 49 minutes - 91.3 MB

In this episode of CCYSC Awaaz, Pooja Agarwal discusses the experiences and work of Savitha Suresh Babu, Kirana Kumari, Pavitra and Nanjundaswamy at Baduku Centre for Livelihoods Learning, Samvada, Bengaluru. The college offers short term courses on socially critical domains such as education, journalism, sustainable development, and justice.  Savitha Suresh Babu works as a faculty member at Baduku Centre for Livelihoods Learning; currently working with the centre for transformative educati...

Ep. 17 Youth, Cities, and the Global

March 18, 2021 18:16 - 27 minutes - 18.2 MB

In this episode of CCYSC Awaaz, Dr Anandini Dar, Assistant Professor, School of Education Studies, Ambedkar University Delhi and Dr Ethiraj Gabriel Dattatreyan, senior lecturer at Department of Anthropology, Goldsmiths, University of London talk about youth, cities and the global discussing Dr Gabriel's recently published book The Globally Familiar: Digital Hip Hop, Masculinity, and Urban Space in Delhi.  Edited by Nipunika Sachdeva Music:  Little Idea by Scott Holmes (scottholmesmusic.com...

Ep. 16 Pleasure, Sexuality and Young People in India: In Conversation with Paromita Vohra

February 27, 2021 11:22 - 1 hour - 44.3 MB

In this episode of CCYSC Awaaz, Paromita Vohra and Suchismita Chattophadyay discuss the journey of Agents of Ishq, the changing discourses around pleasure and sexuality among young people in the digital landscape. They explore the ideas of desire, consent, morality and the language surrounding these phenomena. Paromita is a film-maker, writer and founder of Agents of Ishq. It is a multimedia platform talking about desire, love and sex. As she says it, the Shah Rukh Khan of sex-ed. Her notab...

Ep. 15 Childism, Global South, and Decolonial Sensibilities

February 01, 2021 07:07 - 1 hour - 61.4 MB

In this episode of CCYSC Awaaz, Dr John Wall and Dr Tanu Biswas discuss the history of childism, and how insights from the global south enrich childist thinking. Dr Wall and Dr Biswas talk about their personal and scholarly journeys, research, how childism relates to other ‘isms’ such as feminism and post-colonialism, as well as its close affinity to decolonial sensibilities.  Dr John Wall is a theoretical ethicist whose research and teaching focus on the groundwork of moral life. He is par...

Ep. 14 Access versus Integration in Education

January 03, 2021 09:17 - 22 minutes - 18.3 MB

In this episode of CCYSC Awaaz, Joyeeta Dey and Dr. Amanda Gilbertson discuss their research on desegregation and the common school system in India, specifically in Lucknow. They analyze how a desegregation policy gets translated into an access policy by middle-class actors at various levels - from the state officials to public intellectuals to school leadership to teachers - and read against the grain of how the policy is interpreted by the poor families who avail of it. Dr. Amanda Gilbert...

Ep. 13 Children's and Young Adult Literature as a Site of Praxis

December 20, 2020 15:18 - 25 minutes - 23.6 MB

In the thirteenth episode of CCYSC Awaaz,  Rabani Garg discusses her interest and experiences in designing and conducting literacy projects for schools, communities, and libraries in India. As the co-founder and editor of Thinking, an Indian children’s magazine, she was involved in creating a literacy resource that focused on encouraging linguistic, literary, and cultural pluralism. Currently at the University of Pennsylvania, she studies issues of diversity, representations and power struct...

Ep. 12 Mental Health in Education

December 06, 2020 17:26 - 31 minutes - 18.4 MB

In the twelfth episode of CCYSC Awaaz, Nipunika Sachdeva and Dr. Shivani Nag discuss mental health in education. Dr. Shivani Nag is an Assistant Professor in the School of Education Studies, Ambedkar University Delhi. Her academic and research interests include sociocultural theories of learning and cognition, multilingual education, critical and feminist pedagogies, and democratization of education with focus on processes of socio-cultural inclusion of the marginalized in school and higher...

Ep. 11 Exploring Childhoods in the Middle East and South Asia

November 22, 2020 18:55 - 54 minutes - 50.3 MB

In the eleventh episode of CCYSC Awaaz, Dr. Chiara Diana and Dr. Hia Sen discuss their research interests and examine childhood studies from the Middle East and South Asia. Dr. Chiara Diana's current research interests include childhood and youth, civil society, education, political socialization, and memory of the 2010-2011 revolution in Tunisia and in Egypt. She is currently project manager of the artistic project Mémoires intimes d’une révolution (with the photographer Hugo Albignac) and...

Ep. 10 History and Education: An Interface

November 08, 2020 14:56 - 30 minutes - 42.5 MB

In this tenth episode, Dr. Catriona Ellis and Dr. Akash Bhattacharya discuss the history of education in India. Dr. Ellis and Dr. Bhattacharya talk about their research, the challenges and sources that can be used in studying the history of education, and potential directions for future research. Dr. Catriona Ellis teaches at the University of Strathclyde in the Centre for the Social History of Health and Healthcare. Her recent publications include “Climbing the Coconut Tree: Three South In...

Ep. 09 Acknowledging Youth: Exploring Precarious Labor, Rural Transformation, and Cultural Anxiety in India and Aotearoa New Zealand

October 25, 2020 13:07 - 52 minutes - 48.2 MB

In this episode, Dr. Sylvia Nissen and Dr. Ritodhi Chakraborty discuss youth politics and activism and labor as well as rural transformation and cultural anxiety in India and Aotearoa New Zealand. Sylvia Nissen is an assistant professor of environmental policy at Lincoln University (New Zealand). Her research explores the politics of young people’s participation in social and environmental issues. She is the author of Student Debt and Political Participation (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018) and S...

Ep. 08 Dialogue on Multimodal, Multicultural, and Multilingual Education

October 11, 2020 05:15 - 48 minutes - 44.7 MB

In the eighth episode of CCYSC Awaaz, Cassie Brownell and Shivani Nag discuss their research interests and specifically explore multimodal, multicultural, and multilingual education. Dr. Brownell is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Curriculum, Teaching, and Learning at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education within the University of Toronto. She received her doctorate in Curriculum, Instruction, and Teacher Education--with a language and literacies specialization and certi...

Ep. 07 Adoptive Family Practices

September 27, 2020 14:19 - 46 minutes - 64.4 MB

Tune into the seventh episode of the CCYSC AWAAZ with Sushri Sangita Puhan and Dr. Elizabeth Dillenburg as they discuss Sushri's ground-breaking work on adoptive family practice and display in India.  In this episode, Sushri shares stories from working in the field and reflects on the challenges of working on adoption in India. Sushri Sangita Puhan is a child rights practitioner and a Chevening & Chancellor's scholar and doctoral researcher in social work at the University of Sussex. Dr. E...

Ep. 06 Histories of Childhood in the Middle East and Beyond

September 13, 2020 00:14 - 53 minutes - 73 MB

Tune into the 6th episode of the CCYSC AWAAZ with Dr. Heidi Morrison and Dr. Divya Kannan as they discuss Dr. Morrison's research on the history of childhood in the Middle East and the evolution of the field of the history of childhood and future directions of research. Dr. Heidi Morrison is Associate Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse and is founding president of the Association for Middle East Children and Youth Studies (AMECYS). She is visiting senior Research ...

Ep. 05 Childhood & Education: Thinking through Research, Practice & Multidisciplinary Frameworks

August 31, 2020 12:34 - 42 minutes - 39.8 MB

Tune into the 5th episode of the CCYSC AWAAZ with Dr. Maithreyi R in conversation with Dr. Vidya Subramanian as they discuss the former’s research on low-cost schooling in Bihar, her experience of observing life skills education programs, and disciplinary frameworks. Dr. Maithreyi R is a Senior Adolescent research Consultant at Karnataka Health Promotion Trust, Bangalore. Dr. Vidya Subramanian is an Assistant Professor at the Centre for Education, Innovation and Action Research, Tata Insti...

Ep. 04 Children as Subjects of Law.

August 16, 2020 08:55 - 35 minutes - 33.1 MB

In the fourth episode of CCYSC Awaaz, Yamila Rodriguez discusses her research revolving around "Children's Rights to Participation in Criminal Courts".   Yamila Rodriguez  is a PhD researcher at the University of Buenos Aires. Her research topic is: "Children´s Right to Participation in Criminal Courts". She also works as a court clerk at a criminal court in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Hosted and edited by Astha Ohri (student, School of Education Studies, Ambedkar University Delhi) Music:  Lit...

Ep.04 Children as Subjects of Law.

August 16, 2020 08:55 - 35 minutes - 33.1 MB

In the fourth episode of CCYSC Awaaz, Yamila Rodriguez discusses her research revolving around "Children's Rights to Participation in Criminal Courts".   Yamila Rodriguez  is a PhD researcher at the University of Buenos Aires. Her research topic is: "Children´s Right to Participation in Criminal Courts". She also works as a court clerk at a criminal court in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Hosted and edited by Astha Ohri (student, School of Education Studies, Ambedkar University Delhi) Music:  L...

Ep. 03 Researching Children on the Margins in Urban India

August 02, 2020 11:16 - 34 minutes - 31.5 MB

In the third episode of CCYSC Awaaz, Annie McCarthy and Vijitha Rajan discuss their research revolving around marginalised children in the urban spaces of Delhi and Bangalore respectively. Vijitha Rajan is senior research fellow at the University of Delhi. Her current doctoral research attempts to understand migrant children's experiences of childhood and education in urban spaces. Her interests include sociology of education, educational exclusion, education and social justice, teacher ide...

Ep. 03 Researching Children at the Margins in Urban India

August 02, 2020 11:16 - 34 minutes - 31.5 MB

In the third episode of CCYSC Awaaz, Annie McCarthy and Vijitha Rajan discuss their research revolving around marginalised children in the urban spaces of Delhi and Bangalore respectively. Vijitha Rajan is senior research fellow at the University of Delhi. Her current doctoral research attempts to understand migrant children's experiences of childhood and education in urban spaces. Her interests include sociology of education, educational exclusion, education and social justice, teacher ide...

Ep. 02 Photography for Change

July 19, 2020 11:07 - 31 minutes - 29.1 MB

Renowned documentary photographer Vicky Roy talks about his experiences while getting to know - and working with - children from diverse backgrounds, and his own childhood and how it shaped his practice.  Get the transcript here: https://bit.ly/VickyRoyTranscript Vicky Roy studied photography at Triveni Kala Sangam and then apprenticed under Anay Mann. In 2007, he held his first solo exhibition titled, Street Dreams at India Habitat Centre; supported by the British High Commission. In 2008,...

Ep. 01 The CCYSC - An Introduction

July 07, 2020 14:30 - 36 minutes - 33.5 MB

The conveners of the CCYSC - Dr Anandini Dar and Dr Divya Kannan - talk about their research interests, the formation of the collective, the vision behind it, and the way forward. Anandini Dar is Assistant Professor at the School of Education Studies, Ambedkar University Delhi. Her areas of interest include childhood and youth, geographies, migration and diasporas, feminist pedagogy, ethnography and research methods for young subjects. Divya Kannan is Assistant Professor at the Department ...