Reimagining childhood studies / edited by Spyros Spyrou, Rachel Rosen, and Daniel Thomas Cook.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Spyrou, Spyros, editor.

Rosen, Rachel, editor.

Cook, Daniel Thomas, 1961- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Children--Research.

Children.

Children--Social conditions.

Child development--Social aspects.

Child development.

Physical Description:

xiii, 265 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2019.

Summary:

"Reimagining Childhood Studies incites, and provides a forum for, dialogue and debate about the direction and impetus for critical and global approaches to social-cultural studies of children and their childhoods. Set against the backdrop of a quarter century of research and theorising arising out of the "new" social studies of childhood, each of the 13 original contributions strives to extend the conceptual reach and relevance of the work being undertaken in the dynamic and expanding field of childhood studies in the 21st century. Internationally renowned contributors engage with contemporary scholarship from both the global north and south to address questions of power, inequity, reflexivity, subjectivities and representation from poststructuralist, posthumanist, postcolonial, feminist, queer studies and political economy perspectives. In so doing, the book provides a deconstructive and reconstructive dialogue, offering a renewed agenda for future scholarship. The book also moves the insights of childhood studies beyond the boundaries of this field, helping to mainstream insights about children's everyday lives from this burgeoning area of study and avoid the dangers of marginalizing both children and scholarship about childhood. This carefully curated collection extends beyond critiques of specified research arenas, traditions, concepts or approaches to serve as a bridge in the transformation of childhood studies at this important juncture in its history."--Publisher's description.

Contents:

Introduction: reimagining childhood studies: connectivities...relationalities...linkages.../ Spyros Spyrou, Rachel Rosen, and Daniel Thomas Cook

Part One. Spatial and temporal challenges and interventions

Childhood, culture, history: redeploying "multiple childhoods" / Sarada Balagopalan

Geographies of play: scales of imagination in the study of the child-made things / Karen Sánchez-Eppler

Thinking and adult-child relationship with existentialism / Clementine Beauvais

Part Two. Rethinking materiality and political economy

Childhood (re)materialized: bringing political economy into the field / Jason Hart and Jo Boyden

Decolonizing childhood studies: overcoming patriarchy and prejudice in child-related research and practice / Kristen Cheney

Children's geographies and the "new wave" of childhood studies / Peter Kraftl and John Horton

Part Three. Decentering the agentic subject of childhood studies

Panaceas of play: stepping past the creative child / Daniel Thomas Cook

Queer young people of color and affects of agency / Stephen Bernardini

Performative politics and the interview: unraveling immigrant children's narrations and identity performances / Stavroula Kontovourki and Eleni Theodorou

Part Four. Engagements with political subjects and subjectivities

Who is (to be) the subject of children's rights? / Matías Cordero Arce

Reimagining disabled children within childhood studies: the challenge of difference / Mary Wickenden

What space for a children's politics? Rethinking infancy in childhood studies / David Oswell.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1350019216

9781350019218

1350019224

9781350019225

OCLC:

1027833163