Tracing the smells of childhoods with an olfactory research inquiry DOI Creative Commons
Natalia Kucirkova

Qualitative Research, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 24(4), P. 1042 - 1066

Published: Nov. 13, 2023

This paper proposes a multi-method olfactory inquiry to document the rich ways in which children's sense of smell is embodied and embedded an interplay senses socio-spatial relationships. I approach olfaction as conceptual strategy connect it socio-material theories illustrate close empirical attention can provide new insights into sensory experiences. An research rests on traditional (e.g. SmellMaps SmellLogs) speculative Ododata Olfactoscapes) techniques that invite adults’ agentic responses odours through relational, dynamic, non-linguistic modes. As critical sub-methodology inquiries, help us re-think normative, homogenizing, mind-body relations early childhood practice.

Language: Английский

Children’s Wayfaring Experiences at an Olfaction-Enhanced Three Little Pigs Story Exhibition DOI Creative Commons
Natalia Kucirkova

Museum and Society, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 21(3), P. 1 - 21

Published: Jan. 1, 2023

This study draws on data from a public exhibition that was purposefully designed to engage children’s sense of smell in relation an adapted version The Three Little Pigs story at museum. Twenty-eight children attended the before official opening and their experiences were documented through researcher-led interviews, drawings researcher fieldnotes. Narrative hermeneutical analysis revealed olfactory engagement with associated portrayal good evil fostered exhibition’s multisensory display. Children asserted themselves identity wayfarers engaged elements by criss-crossing personal, shared, literary boundaries. power olfaction stimulate idiosyncratic emotional responses came fore appropriation narrative shared space.

Language: Английский

Citations

2

Tracing the smells of childhoods with an olfactory research inquiry DOI Creative Commons
Natalia Kucirkova

Qualitative Research, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 24(4), P. 1042 - 1066

Published: Nov. 13, 2023

This paper proposes a multi-method olfactory inquiry to document the rich ways in which children's sense of smell is embodied and embedded an interplay senses socio-spatial relationships. I approach olfaction as conceptual strategy connect it socio-material theories illustrate close empirical attention can provide new insights into sensory experiences. An research rests on traditional (e.g. SmellMaps SmellLogs) speculative Ododata Olfactoscapes) techniques that invite adults’ agentic responses odours through relational, dynamic, non-linguistic modes. As critical sub-methodology inquiries, help us re-think normative, homogenizing, mind-body relations early childhood practice.

Language: Английский

Citations

0