Playing war

Christmas came early for the Ludic Geopolitics team last year as Ludic Geopolitics HQ took deliver of a range of H.M. Armed Forces action figures and vehicles for use in the child-based streams of our project. Since January we’ve been busy sharing these toys in both school-based and home-based sessions with children. The school-based sessions are designed as a recruitment method for the more in-depth home-based research, but we’ve been finding that these fun-packed, lively sessions are generating rich material in their own right. To read more about this work see the progress report written by team member, Prof. Klaus Dodds, detailed in an earlier post on the blog.

We’re looking forward to presenting some of our initial findings from this ongoing research in our session on Domesticating Geopolitics at the forthcoming RGS-IBG Annual International Conference.

For more info about the project, visit the project website.

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