Feminist Research for 21st-Century Childhoods: Common Worlds Methods (Feminist Thought in Childhood Research)

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 United 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 of childhood studies, where settler colonial and neoliberal logics have so much clout, such strategies are crucial. Feminist Research for 21st-century Childhoods is an important and relevant read for anyone working and researching with children. Cover Contents List of Figures Notes on Contributors Series Editors’ Introduction Acknowledgments Common Worlding Research: An Introduction B. Denise Hodgins Part One 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 Two 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 Three 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 Four 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 Degenerative Processes Cristina D. Vintimilla and Iris Berger 19 Childing: A Different Sense of Time Karin Murris and Cara Borcherds Index "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 of childhood studies, where settler colonial and neoliberal logics have so much clout, such strategies are crucial. Feminist Research for 21st-century Childhoods is an important and relevant read for anyone working and researching with children."-- Provided by publisher