Childhood, Agency, and Fantasy
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Childhood, Agency, and Fantasy

Walking in Other Worlds

  1. 291 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Childhood, Agency, and Fantasy

Walking in Other Worlds

About this book

Joining the emergent interdisciplinary investment in bridging the social sciences and the humanities, Childhood, Agency, and Fantasy: Walking in Other Worlds explores linkages between children's agency and fantasy. Fantasy as an integral aspect of childhood and as a genre allows for children's spectacular dreams and hopeful realities. Friendship, family, identity, loyalty, belongingness, citizenry, and emotionality are central concepts explored in chapters that are anchored by humanities texts of television, film, and literature, but also by social science qualitative methods of participant observation and interviews. Fantasy has the capacity to be a revolutionary change agent that in its modernity can creatively reflect, critique, or reimagine the social, political, and cultural norms of our world. Such promise is also found to be true of children's agency, wherein children's beings and becomings, rooted in childhood's freedoms and constraints, result in a range of outcomes. In the endeavor to broaden theory and research on children's agency, fantasy becomes a point of possibility with its expanding subjectivities, far-reaching terrain, and spirit of adventure.

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Information

Year
2021
eBook ISBN
9781978754249
Edition
1

Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Acknowledgments
  3. Adventure/Otherworld
  4. Chapter 1. Where Do We Belong?
  5. Dream/Good vs. Evil
  6. Chapter 2: A Futile Rage against the Machine
  7. Imagination/Transformation
  8. Chapter 3: Developing Children’s Agency through Play with Imaginary Companions
  9. Heroism/Supernatural
  10. Chapter 4: Arcadia Is in the Hands of Teenagers
  11. Magic/Journey
  12. Chapter 5: The Boy Who Lives
  13. Mythology/Quest
  14. Chapter 6: All in the Family
  15. Conflict/Justice
  16. Chapter 7: Young People’s Agency in Online Fan Spaces
  17. Portals/Time
  18. Chapter 8: Girls’ Agency through Supermobility
  19. Movement/Power
  20. Chapter 9: Being Scared in the Dark
  21. Index
  22. About the Contributors