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Mapping the body, voicing the margins: Using body maps to understand children’s embodied experiences of violence in Kingston, Jamaica
Author(s) -
D’souza Nicole A.,
Guzder Jaswant,
Hickling Frederick,
Groleau Danielle
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
children and society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.538
H-Index - 58
eISSN - 1099-0860
pISSN - 0951-0605
DOI - 10.1111/chso.12413
Subject(s) - embodied cognition , normative , narrative , sociocultural evolution , sociology , vulnerability (computing) , power (physics) , gender studies , psychology , social psychology , epistemology , anthropology , art , philosophy , physics , literature , computer security , quantum mechanics , computer science
The study explores how children in an inner‐city community of Jamaica deal with everyday violence. Using an art‐based method called body mapping , we explored the ways children made sense of issues related to power, vulnerability, risk and resilience. The findings show how children's narratives and memories of their bodies merged with broader social and cultural structures governing their lives. Expressing their embodied experiences through the body mapping exercise, the children challenged and resisted normative sociocultural schemes of how they should be in the world by creating, re‐envisioning and re‐contextualising their bodies via a method that engaged with affective modes of knowledge.