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Disclosing Childhoods: Research and Knowledge Production for a Critical Childhood Studies: Studies in Childhood and Youth

Autor Spyros Spyrou
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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.   
 
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781137479037
ISBN-10: 1137479035
Pagini: 224
Ilustrații: IX, 241 p.
Dimensiuni: 148 x 210 x 22 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Ediția:1st ed. 2018
Editura: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Colecția Palgrave Macmillan
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Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Cuprins

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.

Notă biografică

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).  

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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.   
 

Caracteristici

Offers an in-depth, critical and reflexive look at key concepts of Childhood Studies Calls for theoretical and methodological innovation designed to match the ‘messiness’ of children’s lives Argues that research produces a variety of childhoods which reflect in many ways the multiple and diverse disciplines and theoretical and methodological orientations which childhood researchers represent