Precarity and the question of children’s relationalities

Balagopalan, Sarada

doi:10.1177/09075682211021748

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“…These endogenous ideas of mutuality, reciprocity and collective life inform the values and valuations of personhood as much as they shape notions of good childhood. They resonate with what Balagopalan (2021: p. 329) refers to as “non-sovereign relationalities” whereby precarious children’s existence, interconnectedness and care find expressions in relationalities whose given-ness appears to exceed autonomous and individuated understanding of selfhood opening avenues to reimagine a more collective and socially just world.…”

Section: Relational Epistemologies – and Indigenous Views On Childhoodssupporting

confidence: 55%

Southern theories and decolonial childhood studies

2022

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This special issue contributes insights into ongoing debates on the politics and ethics of knowledge production in “global” childhood studies by decentering dominant, northern-centric models of childhood and using southern epistemologies. We contest the ways in which most of the world’s children have their experiences and contexts interpreted through the theoretical canons, vernaculars and institutions of northern academia. Drawing on studies that deploy indigenous, decolonial and postcolonial perspectives on the study of childhood and children in different temporal moments and spatial contexts of Africa, Latin America and South Asia, authors of papers aim to push the boundaries for ways of knowing children and doing childhood studies through cross-disciplinary, generative south-north and south-south encounters. The special issue critically engages with questions of epistemic plurality and bottom-up theorization of research with globally southern children, to both rectify the onto-epistemological imbalance in childhood studies and reinscribe indigenous knowledge systems that have received limited attention in this field thus far.

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Section: Relational Epistemologies – and Indigenous Views On Childhoodssupporting

confidence: 55%

Southern theories and decolonial childhood studies

2022

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“…The potential of this revolutionary comprehension of citizenship lies in the recognition of the struggles that children perceive in the victims of the armed conflict, thus moving from an adultist to a childist comprehension of national belonging (Wall, 2013) based on relational identity with the historically marginalized. This notion of a non-sovereign self (Balagopalan, 2021;Kelz, 2016) tears from traditional understandings of protracted violence as stifling and reshapes them into a binding relationship with the precarious other. The emphasis is no longer on respecting individual autonomy, historically belonging to the adult, white, middle-class man (or the corrupt elite), but on solidarity with the othered collectivities, where everyone, including children, are competent, resilient, and active citizens.…”

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“…Violeta's intervention discloses the necessity to "suffer for the other" and characterizes "our hurt" as relational. It allows us to see that children's citizenship is cemented on notions of interdependency echoing Balagopalan's (2021) arguments regarding children's embodied understandings of non-sovereign relationalities that allow them to "refuse, neoliberalism's subjective and penalizing technologies" (p. 330)."…”

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“The suffering we collectively inhabit”: Relational understandings of citizenship by the Colombian post-accord generation

García Gómez

2024

Childhood

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This paper explores children’s and youth’s understandings of Colombian citizenship. Drawing from ethnographic work in the Museo Casa de la Memoria in Medellín, where I accompanied 15 school visits with young museum workers and over three hundred school-aged children, this paper proposes that citizenship appears to be a double-bind and disputable categorization. Citizenship was defined as a failed formal project and lived as relational and bounded by the shared violence historically suffered by vulnerable communities. To the post-accord generation, being Colombian is about learning of the collective suffering, and their perceived civic responsibility is to collective memory and peacebuilding.

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“…the ways that, in their focus on futurity within a neoliberal conceptualization of time as linear and progressive, both these positionings were engaging in a double manoeuvre of obscuring childhood and activism in the present, reinscribing still dominant modernist (and adultist) positionings of children as other-to adults (Balagopalan, 2021;Millei, 2021;Raby & Sheppard, 2021). But I wanted to consider how activist children were positioning themselves through and within their activism.…”

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“The Ice is Melting and I Don’t Want Santa to Drown!”: Reflections on Childhood, Climate Action, and Futurity

Hopkins

2023

J Child. Stud.

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This paper’s reading of a specific cultural artifact to emerge from children’s climate activism in contemporary Australia enacts an argument that children themselves can be seen to be redefining childhood and futurity through their climate activism and demonstrates how their placards are evidence of this. It argues that we as critical childhood scholars can follow their lead by uncovering the discourses that underpin their activist slogans. In doing so, we can set about contesting the limiting and disempowering discourses of childhood that would dismiss the very idea of children as political participants in the fight to save the planet.

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Precarity and the question of children’s relationalities

Cited by 11 publications

References 35 publications

Southern theories and decolonial childhood studies

Southern theories and decolonial childhood studies

“The suffering we collectively inhabit”: Relational understandings of citizenship by the Colombian post-accord generation

“The Ice is Melting and I Don’t Want Santa to Drown!”: Reflections on Childhood, Climate Action, and Futurity

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