CCYSC Awaaz

In this episode, our member, Dr.  Nicolás Brando  (University of Liverpool, UK), talks about his new book,  Childhood in Liberal Theory: Equality, Difference and Children’s Rights  (Oxford University Press, 2024), with Prof.  Tara Collins  (Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada). He foregrounds the question of "who is considered a child?" and the framing of "children's rights&...

In this episode Dr. Soni, Gitam University, interacts with Dr. Catriona Ellis, Strathclyde University about her recent book, "Imagining Childhood, Improving Children: The Emergence of an ‘Avuncular' State in Late Colonial South India" published by Cambridge University Press, 2023. Her research explores how colonial authorities, through education policies, child welfare programs, and juvenile refor...

Simran Josan, our CCYSC intern, is in conversation with Sumit Parewa (Trustee, TCLP) and Nisha (Class IX student) regarding The Community Library Project, a public initiative to promote the right to read and organise free libraries for all in India and beyond. Sumit and Nisha share their experiences of joining the TCLP as young members and helping to bring books to working-class children in severa...

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 स्थान...

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...

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 an...

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 pro...

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...

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 wor...

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 wor...

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 , Spy...

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 ch...

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...

!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 conversat...

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....

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 b...

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...

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...

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...

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 Sch...

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...

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...

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 multim...

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...

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...