Description

Each of the essays in this collection considers what lies beyond the limiting discourses of childhood innocence. Instead of focusing on how children “grow up,” as has been the focus of developmental science for over a century, we ask what it might mean for discourses of childhood to finally “grow out” of childhood innocence? The authors featured in this volume explore this question through critical approaches that actively refuse the limits of normative and normalizing conceptions of the child by surfacing and centering complex, multiplicitous configurations of childhood. Together, these perspectives challenge existing discourses and social practices to reveal how power operates in and through the child and its uses.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Moving Beyond Innocence
Julie C. Garlen & Neil T. Ramjewan
Who Is Entitled to Childhood Innocence? Kisha McPherson and Chanelle Perrier-Telemaque
Unpacking the Adultification-Infantilization Paradox Sebastian Barajas
Childhood Innocence, Sanism, and the Image of the Child Adam Davies
Zapatista Childhoods Kathia Núñez Patiño
Adultism in Uganda’s Child Protection Efforts Doris Kakuru
Malleable Innocence Anusha Iyer
Narrating Trauma, Subverting Innocence Mayurika Chakravorty
The Arrivant Child Neil T. Ramjewan
Troubling InnocenceDominique C. Hill and Durell M. Callier

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Product details

Published 11 Dec 2023
Format Hardback
Edition 1st
Extent 262
ISBN 9781666911534
Imprint Lexington Books
Illustrations 6 b/w photos; 1 table
Dimensions 239 x 159 mm
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

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