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Theorising Posthuman Childhood Studies (Children: Global Posthumanist Perspectives and Materialist Theories) by Karen Malone, Marek Tesar, Sonja Arndt is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Theorising Posthuman Childhood Studies (Children: Global Posthumanist Perspectives and Materialist Theories) about?

This book is a genealogical foregrounding and performance of conceptions of children and their childhoods over time. We acknowledge that children’s lives are embedded in worlds both inside and outside of structured schooling or institutional settings, and that this relationality informs how we think about what it means to be a child living and experiencing childhood. The book maps the field by taking up a cross-disciplinary, genealogical niche to offer both an introduction to theoretical underpinnings of emerging theories and concepts, and to provide hands-on examples of how they might play out. This book positions children and their everyday lived childhoods in the Anthropocene and focuses on the interface of children’s being in the everyday spaces and places of contemporary communities and societies. In particular this book examines how the shift towards posthuman and new materialist perspectives continues to challenge dominant developmental, social constructivist and structuralist theoretical approaches in diverse ways, to help us to understand contemporary constructions of childhoods. It recognises that while such dominant approaches have long been shown to limit the complexity

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Author

Karen Malone, Marek Tesar, Sonja Arndt

Publisher

Springer Singapore : Imprint: Springer

Published

2020

Language

EN

ISBN

9789811581748

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Philosophy, Education, Gender Studies