Growing out of childhood innocence

Ramjewan, Neil; Garlen, Julie C.

doi:10.1080/03626784.2020.1851521

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“…Scholars have extensively critiqued the liberal construction of the category of the child and childhood in terms of children as not-yet-beings (James et al, 1998;Qvortrup, 1994), of how normative childhood and childhood innocence require the ejection of subaltern children to cohere (Burman, 2008;Knight, 2019;Ramjewan and Garlen, 2020), and of prevailing, deficit views of non-normativity (Ladson-Billings, 2006;Patel, 2015;Dei et al, 1997). We offer that there is more to do to account for the operation of liberalism in childhood studies in order to take us beyond liberalism.…”

Section: Theoretical Provocation: Intimacies As Reading Practice In C...mentioning

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Unsettling the global, moving beyond liberalism: Intimacies as a reading practice in childhood studies

Desai

Angod

2022

Childhood

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This article centres a transnational feminist framing that engages racial capitalism and colonialisms in the study of “the global” within childhood studies. We unsettle the dichotomies of North/South and rather theorize their imbrications. We argue for attending to the conjunctions racial capitalism and colonialisms to make visible different yet overlapping forms of extraction. We offer intimacies as a reading practice that intervenes in and opens up notions of the global within childhood and youth studies, making two provocations.

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Section: Theoretical Provocation: Intimacies As Reading Practice In C...mentioning

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Unsettling the global, moving beyond liberalism: Intimacies as a reading practice in childhood studies

Desai

Angod

2022

Childhood

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Souring palatable formations in DAP: Toward unfamiliar relations with child development in early childhood teacher education

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2024

International Journal of Early Years Education

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#Protecttranskids?” The (Im)possibilities of advocating for trans-inclusive policies and practices while protecting children

Snaider

2024

Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood

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Contemporary battles over transgender rights reinvigorate the figure of the innocent, ignorant, and vulnerable child at risk and in need of protection. However, critical childhood scholars have shown that not all children are deemed innocent, but rather innocence has always been raced White. Given this, I ask: What does the innocent child rhetoric do to trans activism and trans (early childhood) pedagogies? I unpack how the premise of innocent children pervades responses to anti-trans backlash. Likewise, childhood innocence also thwarts early childhood teachers’ pedagogical efforts to disrupt gender stereotypes. I argue that the mobilization of childhood innocence whitewashes our policy and practice efforts toward trans justice; and call for more promising, intersectional avenues toward gender justice.

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Growing out of childhood innocence

Cited by 4 publications

References 13 publications

Unsettling the global, moving beyond liberalism: Intimacies as a reading practice in childhood studies

Unsettling the global, moving beyond liberalism: Intimacies as a reading practice in childhood studies

Souring palatable formations in DAP: Toward unfamiliar relations with child development in early childhood teacher education

#Protecttranskids?” The (Im)possibilities of advocating for trans-inclusive policies and practices while protecting children

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