Feminist Research for 21st-century Childhoods by Hodgins, B. Denise;

Long description:

This book is a collection of feminist childhood studies stories from field research with educators, young children, and/or early childhood student-educators that explores the challenges, tensions, and possibilities of common worlds research methods for the 21st century. Grounded in a common worlding orientation, the contributing authors grapple with complex methodological understandings within postqualitative practices within settler colonial states: Australia, Canada, South Africa, and the Unites States. Each chapter presents a method the authors have put to work in their efforts to unsettle the interpretative power of Euro-Western developmental knowledges and anthropocentric frameworks to reimagine research amid the colonialist, social, and environmental challenges we face today.

The research(ing) stories act as provocations for generating innovative, relational, and emergent methods to attend to the complexity of 21st-century childhoods. Just as developmental and sociological perspectives gave birth to new forms of inquiry within childhood studies in 19th-century industrialization and 20th-century urban change respectively, the 21st-century requires novel questions, practices, and methodologies to enhance the childhood studies lexicon. In the field ofchildhood studies, where settler colonial and neoliberal logics have so much clout, suchstrategies are crucial. Feminist Research for 21st-century Childhoods is an important and relevant read for anyone working and researching with children.

Table of Contents:

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Introduction: Common Worlding Research, B. Denise Hodgins
Part I: Relations with Materials
1. Claying: Attending to Earth's Caring Relations, Veronica Pacini-Ketchabaw and Kelly Boucher
2. Fabricating: Fabric Fluidities and Studio Encounters, Sylvia Kind and Adrienne Argent
3. Sticking: Children and the Lively Matter of Sticks, Tonya Rooney
4. Literacying: Literacy Desiring in Writers' Studio, Candace R. Kuby
5. Intergenerationaling: Children, Elders, and Materials Making Waves, Rachel Heydon and Elisabeth Davies
6. Muscling: Doing Physiologies with Pedagogies in Education Research, Nicole Land
Part II: Relations with Other Species
7. Crowing: Coevolving Relationships, Kathleen Kummen
8. Shimmering: Animating Multispecies Relations with Wurundjeri Country, Mindy Blaise and Catherine Hamm
9. Tracking: Cultivating the ""Arts of Awareness"" in Early Childhood, Narda Nelson
10. Rabbiting: Troubling the Legacies of Invasion, Affrica Taylor
Part III: Relations with Place
11. Gathering: An a/r/tographic Practice, Vanessa Clark
12. Mashing: A Practice that Makes Vision Felt, Nikki Rotas
13. Playing: Inefficiently Mapping Human and Inhuman Play in Urban Commonplaces, Linda M. Knight
14. GoProing: Becoming Participant-Researcher, Susannah Clement
15. Presencing: Decolonial Attunements to Children's Place Relations, Fikile Nxumalo
Part IV: Relations with Retheorizings
16. Caring: Method as Affect, Obligation, and Action, B. Denise Hodgins
17. Learningliving: Aesthetics of Meaning Making, Randa Khattar and Karyn Callaghan
18. Colaboring: Within Collaboration's Degenerative Processes, Cristina D. Vintimilla and Iris Berger
19. Childing: A Different Sense of Time, Karin Murris and Cara Borcherds
Index