Reimagining Childhood Studies

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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. Cover Contents List of Figures Notes on Contributors Preface Acknowledgments 1 Introduction: Reimagining Childhood Studies: Connectivities … Relationalities … Linkages … Spyros Spyrou, Rachel Rosen, and Daniel Thomas Cook PART ONE Spatial and Temporal Challenges andInterventions 2 Childhood, Culture, History: Redeploying “Multiple Childhoods” Sarada Balagopalan 3 Geographies of Play: Scales of Imagination in the Study of Child-made Things Karen Sánchez-Eppler 4 Thinking the Adult–Child Relationship with Existentialism Clémentine Beauvais PART TWO Rethinking Materiality and PoliticalEconomy 5 Childhood (Re)materialized: Bringing Political Economy into the Field Jason Hart and Jo Boyden 6 Decolonizing Childhood Studies: Overcoming Patriarchy and Prejudice in Child-related Research and Practice Kristen Cheney 7 Children’s Geographies and the “New Wave” of Childhood Studies Peter Kraftl and John Horton PART THREE Decentering the Agentic Subject ofChildhood Studies 8 Panaceas of Play: Stepping Past the Creative Child Daniel Thomas Cook 9 Queer Young People of Color and the Affects of Agency Stephen Bernardini 10 Performative Politics and the Interview: Unraveling Immigrant Children’s Narrations and Identity Performances Stavroula Kontovourki and Eleni Theodorou PART FOUR Engagements with Political Subjects andSubjectivities 11 Who Is (to Be) the Subject of Children’s Rights? Matías Cordero Arce 12 Reimagining Disabled Children within Childhood Studies: The Challenge of Difference Mary Wickenden 13 What Space for a Children’s Politics? Rethinking Infancy in Childhood Studies David Oswell Bibliography Index