Childhood and Nation

Bree Akesson, Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada Lucy Hopkins Robert Imre,The University of Newcastle, Australia Mikko Joronen, University of Tampere, Finland Trish Lunt, Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia Marguerita Magennis, Portobello Institute, Ireland Esther Miedema,University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands Zsuzsa Millei, University of Tampere, Finland Paula Pustulka, Bangor University, UK Alistair Ross, London Metropolitan University, UK Magdalena ?lusarczyk, Jagiellonian University, Poland Prasanna Srinivasan, Monash University, Australia Stella Strzemecka, Jagiellonian University, Poland Miaowei Weng, Southern Connecticut State University, USA Tatjana Zimenkova, TU Dortmund University, Germany.

“This is a timely, much needed and well-balanced edited book on childhood and nation … . Its overall contribution to children’s geographies is its important focus on how childhood and nation are brought together in complex ways.” (Elizabeth Mavroudi, Children's Geographies, Vol. 17 (2), 2019)

• 1. Introduction: Childhood and Nation; Zsuzsa Millei & Robert ImrePART I: GOVERNMENT, REPRESENTATIONS AND RESISTANCES2. 'How Come Australians are White': Children's Voice and Adults' Silence; Prasanna Srinivasan3. The Child as Nation: Embodying the Nation in Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children; Lucy Hopkins4. 'Franco's Children': Childhood Memory as National Allegory; Miaowei Weng5. (Dis)Locating hospitality: Reader Positioning in Australian Picture Books about Asylum Seekers; Trish Lunt6. Minor(s) Matter: Stone-throwing, Securitization and the Government of Palestinian Childhood under Israeli Military Rule; Mikko JoronenPART II: TRANS/NATIONAL SUBJECT FORMATION 7. National Symbols and Practices in the Everyday of Irish Education; Marguerita Magennis8. Palestinian Children Forging National Identity through the Social and Spatial Practices of Territoriality; Bree Akesson9. Constructing Narratives of Political Identities: Young People in the 'New' European States; Alistair Ross10. 'Let's Move, Let's not Remain Stagnant': Nationalism, Masculinism and School-Based Education in Mozambique; Esther Miedema11. Polish Children in Norway: Between National Discourses of Belonging and Everyday Experiences of Life Abroad; Paula Pustulka, Magdalena ?lusarczyk, and Stella Strzemecka12. Educating 'Supermen' and 'Superwomen': Global Citizenship Education; Tatjana Zimenkova