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Thinking and doing with childism in children's literature studies
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In this article we share our reflections on how childism has enabled us to navigate theoretical assumptions shaping our field and develop new positions and research practices fostering child–adult interdependencies. Justyna Deszcz‐Tryhubczak has relied on childism as a framework for the introduction of participatory research with young readers as a way for advancing child–adult collaboration. Macarena García‐González has deployed childism to think about adultism and its analogies to sexism. Although we offer a critique of childism as an essentializing concept, we also show how for both of us it has served as a gateway towards other approaches, and especially post‐anthropocentric understandings both of texts, readers and the world and of our critical engagements. Finally, we argue that childism may remain a productive starting point for further openings in children's literature and culture studies and childhood studies if it becomes a plural and messy notion that questions the discourse of hope for a better future as defining children's lives.
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“As the children choose which parts of the narrative frame to extend or subvert through their own writing, they might guide the adult critical gaze towards what has been most important to them in their story engagement, offering a new approach to childist research that seeks closer approximation of children's point of view (Deszcz -Tryhubczak and García -González, 2022; Hunt, 1991).”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Deszcz‐Tryhubczak, J., & García‐González, M.
- Affiliations
- Faculty of Letters, Institute of English Studies University of Wrocław Wrocław Poland
- Center for Advanced Studies on Educational Justice Pontifical Catholic University of Chile Santiago Chile
- Venue
- Children & Society
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2022-08-03
- Volume
- 37
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 1037-1051
- ISSN
- 0951-0605 (ISSN-L)
- 1099-0860
- OpenAlex
- W4289712015
- Cited by
- 15
- References
- 2
- Citations by year
- 2026: 3 · 2025: 2 · 2024: 5 · 2023: 3 · 2022: 2
- FWCI
- 28.14
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- eprints.gla.ac.uk
- Licence
- Locations
- Children & Society (publishedVersion)
- ENLIGHTEN (Jurnal Bimbingan dan Konseling Islam) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Literature and Literary Theory › Themes in Literature Analysis
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Children's Rights and Participation
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Literature and Literary Theory › Ecocriticism and Environmental Literature
- Keywords
- childism, children's literature, adultism, sexism, post-anthropocentrism, essentialism, childhood studies
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