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In this chapter, we reflect on the methodological challenges we encountered in London (September–December 2013), conducting family observations and four workshops with young children of Arab origin between the ages of seven and twelve. We contextualise the politics of ‘access and (mis)trust’ within larger debates around othering, racism, and Islamophobia in the UK and engage reflexively with our entanglement as Arab diasporic ethnographers researching Arab diasporic children and their media uses in the UK. Using notes from our ethnographic diaries and evidence from our participant observation, we examine the ways in which British children of Arab origin intentionally perform being-in-the-world by navigating through multiple forms of subjectification and cultural tastes. Interplay between different cultural temporalities and repertoires, we argue, produces and is operated through an agential, mnemonic diasporic habitus.
An earlier version of this chapter was published in Mansour, N., & Sabry, T. (2017). (Mis)trust, Access and the Poetics of Self-reflexivity: Arab Diasporic Children in London and Media Consumption. In N. Sakr & J. Steemers (Eds.), Children’s TV and Digital Media in the Arab World: Childhood , Screen Culture and Education (pp. 207–226). London : I.B. Tauris. Used with permission from Bloomsbury Publishing Plc.
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Sabry, T., Mansour, N. (2019). The Poetics of Self-Reflexivity: Arab Diasporic Children in London and Media Uses. In: Children and Screen Media in Changing Arab Contexts. Palgrave Pivot, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-04321-6_2
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