into the future, through the relational process of placing their children in the households of kin and friends.
Read our paper on moral navigation and child fostering!

Sarah C. White and I drew on our research in Zambia to explore how the movement of children between households constitutes a 'moral navigation of wellbeing'. In our paper we discuss how people constantly make decisions about how to further their children's- and their own- wellbeing, both for now+

This creates space for the re-shaping of norms such that women can be the ‘ideal’ wives, mothers etc. that are more closely reconciled to their individual desires.

At last month’s #DSA2025, we drew on our research in Surguja, India to show how women’s moral navigation of their wellbeing can expand space for their own agency. The constantly shifting nature of relationships and contexts loosens norms, making them ‘elastic’. +

whether these are explicit or not. We respond to constantly fluid relationships and contexts in ways that feel morally right for each of us in those situations.

So, wellbeing doesn’t remain a matter just of social navigation, but becomes a process of moral navigation. +

responding to people and contexts around us. So, navigating wellbeing is a social or relational process.

But our responses are also moral choices. This doesn’t mean necessarily that our actions are always ‘good’. Instead, we can think about it as acting with reference to our moral frameworks+

Typical of our times.

Not 'like' as in actually like what happened...

Juicy and flavourful! Not bland and runny like many non-desi versions (but that's my opinion!). And accommodating of many accompaniments- toast, in a sandwich, chapati/ parantha, dosa...

Sage encyclopaedia + dictionary on qual research methods are both useful. I particularly like Kohler-Riessman's articles on narrative interviewing and analysis, and on other aspects of qual research, including ethics.