Refusing the Limits of Contemporary Childhood - Beyond Innocence

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?

List 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 Innocence

Dominique C. Hill and Durell M. Callier

Index
About the Contributors

About the author

Edited by Julie C. Garlen and Neil T. Ramjewan - Contributions by Julie C. Garlen; Neil T. Ramjewan; Kisha McPherson; Chanelle Perrier-Telemaque; Sebastian Barajas; Adam Davies; Kathia Núñez Patiño; Doris Kakuru; Anusha Iyer; Mayurika Chakravorty; Dominiq

Summary

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?

Product details

• Authors: Julie C. Ramjewan Garlen
• Assisted by: Julie C. Garlen (Editor), Garlen Julie C. (Editor), Neil T. Ramjewan (Editor)
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.12.2023
• EAN: 9781666911534
• ISBN: 978-1-66691-153-4
• No. of pages: 262
• Series: Critical Childhood & Youth Studies: Theoretical Explorations and Practices in Clinical, Educational, Social, and Cultural Settings
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Psychology: general, reference works; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Children's Studies, PSYCHOLOGY / Developmental / Child, Child, developmental & lifespan psychology, Child & developmental psychology, Age groups: children