Transformative childhood studies – a remix in inquiry, justice, and love

Silver, Lauren J.

doi:10.1080/14733285.2019.1610155

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“…Transformative justice calls attention to state violence and oppression, which must be healed, not restored—so that society can be actively transformed. The framework moves beyond individually based reconciliation to a broader process of changing the environments, policies, and cultural logics that make individuals susceptible to causing and oftentimes simultaneously experiencing harm (Meiners 2016; Russo 2017; Silver 2019). This is where I suggest transformative justice could draw upon the queer imaginary so that together we can envision the conditions to support many versions of a “good life,” where disruptive families and diverse kinship webs are legitimized.…”

Section: Queering Kinship and Reproductive Justicementioning

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Queering reproductive justice: Memories, mistakes, and motivations to transform kinship

Silver

2020

Feminist Anthropology

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Why does a queer feminist approach to reproductive justice matter? Why might it matter for youth who build their families while navigating the surveillance of a large urban U.S. child welfare system? Why might it matter for queer transracial families like my own and for other “disruptive families”? This autoethnographic account shadows my ethnography with Black adolescent mothers and their children living under surveillance. The works stems from an obligation to shift my gaze to myself, as I follow a long reflexive tradition in feminist anthropology around exploring my vulnerabilities and changing point of view. I argue that queering reproductive justice reveals diverse forms of kinship and care networks to motivate coalition building across families. Queer Black activists and feminists have consistently offered critical insights into how to make the rallying cry of Black Lives Matter more inclusive of Black trans and cis girls and women, as well as for gender‐expansive Black people and families. As a multi‐city and global coalition erupts and demands the liberation of Black lives, the time is ripe for a queer coalition for reproductive justice.

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Section: Queering Kinship and Reproductive Justicementioning

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Queering reproductive justice: Memories, mistakes, and motivations to transform kinship

Silver

2020

Feminist Anthropology

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“…That evening, the Speaking Back Art Exhibition was officially launched, providing an opportunity for the participants to spend time celebrating the visual recording of their art work that was created prior to the event. In this way, we worked to collectively create the ‘transformative space’ (Silver, 2019) necessary for envisioning community justice.…”

Section: Producing the Montebello Girlfestomentioning

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‘We Want Freedom Not Just Safety’: Biography of a Girlfesto as a Strategic Tool in Youth Activism

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Girls are increasingly visible as activists demanding social change, equity and justice. Yet communication between girls and policymakers is fraught with challenges over how to translate young people’s knowledge into policy change. This article traces the history of the manifesto as a form for the marginalized to articulate new social visions, drawing on the Riot grrrl manifestos as examples of this genre. It describes the creation of the first Girlfesto at the 2018 Circles Within Circles event that brought together girls, young people, activists, researchers, and policymakers from six countries in the Global North and South to consider the role of community art-based activism by girls and young people in challenging gender-based violence, concentrating on colonial systems of violence against indigenous women and girls in Canada and South Africa. We analyse the Montebello Girlfesto and the opportunities and challenges in using the Girlfesto model, with reflections from girl participants.

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“…Highlighting the social relations of everyday life, Sheylinn rescripts Camden through neighbourhood bonds and feelings of belonging, challenging the stigmatising narrative of a deprived landscape. This portrayal speaks to the kinds of support networks that may be forged in poor communities of colour, yet erased within outsider accounts of marginalised places (August ; Gilbert ; Nayak ; Reese ; Silver ).…”

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“…By highlighting the forms of good pursued by Camden organisations, youth foreground the collective agency of local residents, contesting the narrative of victimisation that renders them passive (see Gilbert ; Reese ; Silver ).…”

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Youth, Temporality, and Territorial Stigma: Finding Good in Camden, New Jersey

Cairns

2018

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The concept of “territorial stigmatisation” identifies the role of symbolic denigration in the production of marginalised places. In this paper, I draw on ethnographic research with a food justice organisation in Camden, New Jersey, to examine youth's responses to territorial stigma. The analysis demonstrates how Black and Latinx youth rewrite the story of Camden in a way that locates the “good” within it, using narratives of the city's prosperous history and possible futures to recuperate value within a stigmatised place. I argue that the perspectives of youth illuminate the temporal dimensions of territorial stigma, situating the blemish of place in relation to conceptions of individual and social change. The article contributes to a growing literature examining the strategic responses of those who dwell in pathologised places. Because youth are uniquely situated within the production of place, their perspectives offer important insights in this process.

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Transformative childhood studies – a remix in inquiry, justice, and love

Cited by 16 publications

References 34 publications

Queering reproductive justice: Memories, mistakes, and motivations to transform kinship

Queering reproductive justice: Memories, mistakes, and motivations to transform kinship

‘We Want Freedom Not Just Safety’: Biography of a Girlfesto as a Strategic Tool in Youth Activism

Youth, Temporality, and Territorial Stigma: Finding Good in Camden, New Jersey

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