Table of Contents
Introduction: Reimagining Childhood Studies, Spyros Spyrou (European University Cyprus, Cyprus), Rachel Rosen (UCL Institute of Education, UK) and Daniel Thomas Cook (Rutgers University, USA)
Part I: Spatial and Temporal Challenges and Interventions
1. Childhoods, Culture, History: Re-Thinking ‘Multiple Childhoods’ Through a Postcolonial Lens, Sarada Balagopalan (Rutgers University, USA)
2. Imagining Cosmopolitan Childhoods, Sirkka Komulainen (Kymenlaakso University of Applied Sciences, Finland)
3. Playing with the Past: What Childhood Studies Brings to the Study of History, Karen Sánchez-Eppler (Amherst College, USA)
4. Rethinking the Adult-Child Relationship with Existentialism, Clémentine Beauvais (University of York, UK)
Part II: Engagements with Political Subjects and the Political Subject of Childhood Studies
5. Politics and Problem of Infancy, David Oswell (Goldsmiths, University of London, UK)
6. Who is (to be) the Subject of Children’s Rights? Matias Cordero Arce (Independent Scholar, Young Offenders Institution (14-17 years), Spain)
7. What Can Queer Theory do for Your Child? Exploring the Affective Elements of Children’s Agency and Voice
Stephen B. Bernardini (Rutgers University, USA)
8. Performative Politics and the Interview: Unraveling Immigrant Children’s Narrations and Identity Performances, Stavroula Kontovourki (University of Cyprus, Cyprus) and Eleni Theodorou (European University Cyprus, Cyprus)
9. Panaceas of Play: Necessary Misdirections Along the Way to New Ambiguities, Daniel Thomas Cook (Rutgers University, USA)
10. Disability (author TBC)
Part III: Rethinking Materiality and Political Economy
11. Childhood (Re)materialized: Taking up the Challenge of Neoliberalism, Jo Boyden (University of Oxford, UK) and Jason Hart (University of Bath, UK)
12. Explorations in the Political Economy of Childhood, Phil Mizen (Aston University, UK)
13. Decolonizing Childhood Studies: Overcoming Patriarchy and Prejudice in Child-related Research and Practice, Kristen Cheney (Graduate International Institute of Social Studies, Netherlands)
14. A Post-Constructionist Ontology for Childhood Studies, Leena Alanen (University of Jyväskylä, Finland)
Conclusion: Looking Forward, Spyros Spyrou (European University Cyprus, Cyprus), Rachel Rosen (UCL Institute of Education, UK) and Daniel Thomas Cook (Rutgers University, USA)
References
Index