The project ‘KidsComplicity’ puts children in the center of familial negotiation processes. Drawing on children’s active contribution to family life, the everyday practices of children in their families are reconstructed. Using an ethnographic approach, including observations, interviews as well as photographic and audio material, a comprehensive picture of children’s roles in families is created.
The goal of the project is to capture and display the complexity of children’s interaction and action patterns in Bavarian families. Therefore, we raise questions on the doing and the displaying of families.
Doing family emphasizes the active role of children as accomplices or antagonists of adults. Additionally, we focus on how children perceive and cope with unequal and stressful situation (poverty, migration, sickness).
The question of displaying family aims at children’s concepts of family. As well as how they enact family roles with parents and siblings and they portray family in the media, such as on social media.
