Disclosing Childhoods

Research and Knowledge Production for a Critical Childhood Studies

AvSpyros Spyrou

Inbunden, Engelska, 2018

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Beskrivning

Disclosing Childhoods offers a critical account of knowledge production in childhood studies. The book argues for the need to be reflexive about the knowledge practices of the field and to scrutinize the role of researchers in disclosing certain childhoods rather than others. A relational lens is used to critique the ongoing fixation of childhood studies with the unitary child-agent and to re-introduce the question of ontology in knowledge production. The author provides a critical account of childhood studies’ trajectory, as well as exploring the key concepts of voice, agency and participation, illustrating the potential of a reflexive stance towards knowledge production. Drawing on poststructuralist and posthumanist thinking, each of these concepts is critiqued for its conceptual limits while productive avenues are offered to reconfigure their utility. Spyrou also addresses the ethics and politics of knowledge production and considers key emerging insights whichcan contribute towards the development of a more reflexive and critical childhood studies.Students and scholars across a range of disciplines, including childhood studies, anthropology, sociology and geography, will find this book of interest, as well as those interested in qualitative research methodology and social theory.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2018-04-26
Mått:148 x 210 x 22 mm
Vikt:442 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Studies in Childhood and Youth
Antal sidor:241
Förlag:Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN:9781137479037

Utforska kategorier

Sociologi inom Samhälle och politik
Geografi inom Naturvetenskap och teknik

Mer om författaren

Spyros Spyrou is Professor of Anthropology and Sociology at the European University Cyprus and Director of the Center for the Study of Childhood and Adolescence. He co-edited Children and Borders (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014).

Innehållsförteckning

1. Disclosing childhoods.- 2. Towards a decentering of ‘the child’.- 3. Knowledge production in childhood studies.- 4. The production of children’s voices.- 5. What kind of agency for children?.- 6. Children’s participation in research as a knowledge practice.- 7. The ethics and politics of knowledge production in childhood studies.