ABSTRACT
Exploring Materiality in Childhood: Body, Relations and Space explores the multiple ways that childhood and materiality are intertwined and assembled. Bringing together a diverse range of authors, this topical book makes a scholarly contribution to our understanding of the entanglements of materiality and childhoods in international contexts.
Chapters explore how various environments and material resources, including technologies and consumer goods, affect children’s lives. The book caters to a diverse range of theories, in sociomaterialist, posthumanist, post-anthropocentric and more-than-human research, critically exploring the boundaries of these theoretical approaches with diverse empirical cases. These wide ranges of perspectives develop alternatives to human-centred approaches in understanding children and childhoods. With its diverse theoretical and methodological choices, the book also serves as a versatile example for how to conduct research with children and on childhood.
This book will be of great interest for academics, researchers, and postgraduate students in childhood studies, early childhood education, social sciences, cultural sciences and sociology.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|42 pages
Body, embodiment and materiality
chapter 2|15 pages
Embodying discipline
chapter 3|13 pages
From ‘drilling’ to ‘thrilling’
part II|68 pages
Materiality in/as relations
chapter 7|18 pages
Thrown into and out of togetherness
part III|61 pages
Space, environment and materiality