The Bloomsbury Handbook of Theories in Childhood Studies

Sarada Balagopalan, John Wall, Karen Wells, Sarada Balagopalan, John Wall, Karen Wells

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Year: 2023
• Print ISBN: 9781350263840
• eBook ISBN: 9781350263864
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Early Childhood Education

The Bloomsbury Handbook of Theories in Childhood Studies brings together an international group of childhood studies scholars who work with a range of critical theories. It speaks to both scholars and students by addressing questions such as how childhoods are diversely constructed and how children's experiences can be better understood. The volume draws together a diversity of theoretical perspectives from the social sciences and humanities such as critical race studies, disability studies, posthumanism, feminism, politics, decolonialism, queer theory and postcolonialism to generate a much-needed conversation about how to move childhood studies forward as a grounded field of research. The volume is subdivided into three sections - subjectivities, relationalities, and structures - each of which addresses different but interrelated approaches to childhood studies theorization. This handbook will be an essential text not just for childhood studies researchers, but for all those interested in theorizing what childhood is, what work it does and who children are.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-Title
• Series
• Title
• Contents
• List of Contributors
• 1 Introduction
• PART I SUBJECTIVITIES
• 2 Mission Impossible: Investing Children with Literary Authority
• 3 Democracy and Developmentalism: The Logics of Child Exclusion
• 4 Theorizing ‘Difference’: Postcolonialism and Childhood Studies
• 5 Thinking with Ontology in Childhood Studies
• 6 Childhoods, Materialities and Spatialities: Theorizing ‘Beyond’ the Subject?
• 7 Inviting Disability: Disabled Children and Studies of Childhood
• 8 Queer Theory and Childhood Studies
• 9 Locating Children’s Moral Subjectivities and ‘Voice’ in Research with Children and Young People
• PART II RELATIONALITIES
• 10 Children, Childhoods and Decolonial Theory
• 11 Drawing Back from Children’s Agency: Assemblage as Ontology, Description and Relationality
• 12 Towards a Black Feminism for Black Girls
• 13 Living Rights Theory
• 14 Protagonismo and Power: Building Political Theory with Young Activists
• 15 Childhood Prism Research
• 16 Childism: Transforming Critical Theory in Response to Children
• 17 Queer Aesthetics and Childhood Stories
• PART III STRUCTURES
• 18 Children and Power Relations: The Contribution of Governmentality Theory to Childhood Studies
• 19 Critical Realism and Theories of Babies’ Rights
• 20 Theorizing Racialization, Epistemic Violence and Children’s Intersectional Positioning
• 21 Childhood in and Through Social Reproduction Theory
• 22 Coloniality and the Geographies of Children and Youth in Rural Northern Turtle Island and Beyond
• 23 Theorizing ‘Surplus Populations’ in Racial Capitalism through Juvenile Justice
• 24 Growing Up Jim Crow: Child Science, Racial Segregation and Black Children’s Ways of Knowing
• 25 Theorizing Child Migration: Experiences, Governance, Normativity
• 26 Critical Childhood Studies Meets Critical Legal Scholarship
• Index
• Copyright