Macarena García-González
Biographic Data
| ID | 757739 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Macarena García-González |
| GIVEN NAMES | Macarena |
| FAMILY NAME | García-González |
| SIGNATURE | GARCÍA-GONZÁLEZ M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8051-9969 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Field of Children’s Literature and Culture in Times of the Anthropocene
This conversation among fellow scholars explores the impact of the Anthropocene on children’s literature and culture scholarship. It focuses on, among other things, a gap between critical discourse on the Anthropocene and the creative output of children’s books that often rely on simplified eco-hero narratives. Such books burden the young generation with the responsibility for the future instead of encouraging cross-generational engagement. The d…
Introduction: Latin American Children's Literature and Culture
When a Children's Literary Jury Imagines Other Children as Potential Readers: A Case of Collaborative Research
In 2022, the Chilean literary award Premio Medalla Colibrí had a children's jury for the first time. This article has been written by four researchers, two adults and two children, who participated in this process and then studied the experience. We did interviews with different people involved and an analysis based on the notion of wonder. Here, we present some reflections on the criteria used by the children's jury and some findings that surpri…
“An Evil Text”: Chilean National Writing Plan and Students Becoming Writers with Villainy
This article examines high school students’ responses to an exercise from the Chilean National Writing Plan which invited students to “write an evil text.” The data was analyzed through a diffractive reading using affect theory. We asked the texts: What do affective repertoires related to villainy do to students becoming writers? We describe the affirmative potential of these affects and strategies used by students becoming writers to contest nor…
Pensando e fazendo com o criancismo nos estudos da literatura infantil
Neste artigo, compartilhamos reflexões sobre o modo como o criancismo nos permitiu navegar por pressupostos teóricos que moldam nosso campo e desenvolver novas posições e práticas de pesquisa que fomentam as interdependências entre crianças e adultos. Justyna Deszcz-Tryhubczak confiou no criancismo como uma estrutura para a introdução da pesquisa participativa com jovens leitores como forma de promover a colaboração criança-adulto. Já Macarena Ga…
Thinking and doing with childism in children's literature studies
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 thin…
Introduction: Aesthetic & Pedagogic Entanglements
Towards an Affective Childist Literary Criticism
Diversity and homogeneity in Spanish-language picture books with non-human characters
We analyse a corpus of 99 recent Spanish-language picturebooks, based on converging recommendations of prestigious reading promotion institutions in different countries. Focusing on the books that feature non-human characters, we inquire into how animals and other creatures may open possibilities to present diverse and intercultural worlds narrating difference differently. Using critical content analysis with an intersectional lens, we give an ov…
Becoming abject: Testing the Limits and Borders of Reading Mediation
Reading mediation is a concept used in Latin America and Spain, referring to the nurturing role played by adults in forging relationships between children and books. In this article, we conceptualize reading mediation as a ‘technology of affect’. We propose ‘mediation-as-usual’, a normative becoming of this technology, tasked with producing categories and identities regarding readers. Within this technology, adults are produced as empathetic, car…
Reading promotion, conflict negation and peaceful conviviality: The uses and hopes for literary education in Chile
This article inquires into what sort of socioemotional education and conviviality are produced when pleasurable literary reading is encouraged in neoliberal cultures. We critically explore the celebration of reading for socioemotional education as it is produced in official government documents distributed to schools in Chile. Assisted by Sara Ahmed’s conceptualisation of the cultural politics of emotions and Chantal Mouffe’s agonistic theory, we…
More person, and, therefore, more satisfied and happy”: The affective economy of reading promotion in Chile
Reading is often regarded as a public good and an essential part of developing almost every aspect of human potential. In this article, we survey the “affective economies” of literary reading through a textual and visual analysis of documents issued by Chile’s Ministry of Education. Through a critical and diffractive reading of these documents with Ahmed’s (2004, 2010) and Braidotti’s (2018) conceptualizations of the affective, we claim that when…
New Materialist Openings to Children's Literature Studies
New materialist and posthuman thinking denote a range of approaches that have in common a focus on materialities as a turn against the persistence of Cartesian dualisms (mind/body, subject/object, nature/culture, for example). In this article, we explore how the feminist new materialism of Donna Haraway, Karen Barad, and Rosi Braidotti, among others, may provide openings to research in our field, especially when considering what is recurrently ta…
On our com(mon)passions: Entanglements of research, teaching practices, and institutional lives
This article takes the form of a conversation between two children's literature scholars who are collaborating on a conceptual and methodological exploration of post-humanist and feminist materialist concepts and ideas in their field. They reflect on how this exploration has reshaped not only their research and methodological approaches but also their institutional lives in Higher Education. The authors also relate to the propositions for slow sc…
Origin Narratives: The Stories We Tell Children about Immigration and International Adoption
The first of its kind, this volume unpacks the cultural construction of transnational adoption and migration by examining a sample of recent children’s books that address the subject. Of all European countries, Spain is the nation where immigration and transnational adoption have increased most steeply from the early 1990s onward. Origin Narratives: The Stories We Tell Children About Immigration and International Adoption sheds light on the way c…
Origin Narratives: The Stories We Tell Children about Immigration and International Adoption
The first of its kind, this volume unpacks the cultural construction of transnational adoption and migration by examining a sample of recent children’s books that address the subject. Of all European countries, Spain is the nation where immigration and transnational adoption have increased most steeply from the early 1990s onward. Origin Narratives: The Stories We Tell Children About Immigration and International Adoption sheds light on the way c…
Diversity and homogeneity in Spanish-language picture books with non-human characters
We analyse a corpus of 99 recent Spanish-language picturebooks, based on converging recommendations of prestigious reading promotion institutions in different countries. Focusing on the books that feature non-human characters, we inquire into how animals and other creatures may open possibilities to present diverse and intercultural worlds narrating difference differently. Using critical content analysis with an intersectional lens, we give an ov…
Becoming abject: Testing the Limits and Borders of Reading Mediation
Reading mediation is a concept used in Latin America and Spain, referring to the nurturing role played by adults in forging relationships between children and books. In this article, we conceptualize reading mediation as a ‘technology of affect’. We propose ‘mediation-as-usual’, a normative becoming of this technology, tasked with producing categories and identities regarding readers. Within this technology, adults are produced as empathetic, car…
More person, and, therefore, more satisfied and happy”: The affective economy of reading promotion in Chile
Reading is often regarded as a public good and an essential part of developing almost every aspect of human potential. In this article, we survey the “affective economies” of literary reading through a textual and visual analysis of documents issued by Chile’s Ministry of Education. Through a critical and diffractive reading of these documents with Ahmed’s (2004, 2010) and Braidotti’s (2018) conceptualizations of the affective, we claim that when…
Origin Narratives: The Stories We Tell Children about Immigration and International Adoption
The first of its kind, this volume unpacks the cultural construction of transnational adoption and migration by examining a sample of recent children’s books that address the subject. Of all European countries, Spain is the nation where immigration and transnational adoption have increased most steeply from the early 1990s onward. Origin Narratives: The Stories We Tell Children About Immigration and International Adoption sheds light on the way c…
New Materialist Openings to Children's Literature Studies
New materialist and posthuman thinking denote a range of approaches that have in common a focus on materialities as a turn against the persistence of Cartesian dualisms (mind/body, subject/object, nature/culture, for example). In this article, we explore how the feminist new materialism of Donna Haraway, Karen Barad, and Rosi Braidotti, among others, may provide openings to research in our field, especially when considering what is recurrently ta…
On our com(mon)passions: Entanglements of research, teaching practices, and institutional lives
This article takes the form of a conversation between two children's literature scholars who are collaborating on a conceptual and methodological exploration of post-humanist and feminist materialist concepts and ideas in their field. They reflect on how this exploration has reshaped not only their research and methodological approaches but also their institutional lives in Higher Education. The authors also relate to the propositions for slow sc…
Reading promotion, conflict negation and peaceful conviviality: The uses and hopes for literary education in Chile
This article inquires into what sort of socioemotional education and conviviality are produced when pleasurable literary reading is encouraged in neoliberal cultures. We critically explore the celebration of reading for socioemotional education as it is produced in official government documents distributed to schools in Chile. Assisted by Sara Ahmed’s conceptualisation of the cultural politics of emotions and Chantal Mouffe’s agonistic theory, we…
More person, and, therefore, more satisfied and happy”: The affective economy of reading promotion in Chile
Reading is often regarded as a public good and an essential part of developing almost every aspect of human potential. In this article, we survey the “affective economies” of literary reading through a textual and visual analysis of documents issued by Chile’s Ministry of Education. Through a critical and diffractive reading of these documents with Ahmed’s (2004, 2010) and Braidotti’s (2018) conceptualizations of the affective, we claim that when…
Introduction: Aesthetic & Pedagogic Entanglements
Towards an Affective Childist Literary Criticism
Diversity and homogeneity in Spanish-language picture books with non-human characters
We analyse a corpus of 99 recent Spanish-language picturebooks, based on converging recommendations of prestigious reading promotion institutions in different countries. Focusing on the books that feature non-human characters, we inquire into how animals and other creatures may open possibilities to present diverse and intercultural worlds narrating difference differently. Using critical content analysis with an intersectional lens, we give an ov…
Becoming abject: Testing the Limits and Borders of Reading Mediation
Reading mediation is a concept used in Latin America and Spain, referring to the nurturing role played by adults in forging relationships between children and books. In this article, we conceptualize reading mediation as a ‘technology of affect’. We propose ‘mediation-as-usual’, a normative becoming of this technology, tasked with producing categories and identities regarding readers. Within this technology, adults are produced as empathetic, car…
“An Evil Text”: Chilean National Writing Plan and Students Becoming Writers with Villainy
This article examines high school students’ responses to an exercise from the Chilean National Writing Plan which invited students to “write an evil text.” The data was analyzed through a diffractive reading using affect theory. We asked the texts: What do affective repertoires related to villainy do to students becoming writers? We describe the affirmative potential of these affects and strategies used by students becoming writers to contest nor…
Pensando e fazendo com o criancismo nos estudos da literatura infantil
Neste artigo, compartilhamos reflexões sobre o modo como o criancismo nos permitiu navegar por pressupostos teóricos que moldam nosso campo e desenvolver novas posições e práticas de pesquisa que fomentam as interdependências entre crianças e adultos. Justyna Deszcz-Tryhubczak confiou no criancismo como uma estrutura para a introdução da pesquisa participativa com jovens leitores como forma de promover a colaboração criança-adulto. Já Macarena Ga…
Thinking and doing with childism in children's literature studies
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 thin…
Introduction: Latin American Children's Literature and Culture
When a Children's Literary Jury Imagines Other Children as Potential Readers: A Case of Collaborative Research
In 2022, the Chilean literary award Premio Medalla Colibrí had a children's jury for the first time. This article has been written by four researchers, two adults and two children, who participated in this process and then studied the experience. We did interviews with different people involved and an analysis based on the notion of wonder. Here, we present some reflections on the criteria used by the children's jury and some findings that surpri…
The Field of Children’s Literature and Culture in Times of the Anthropocene
This conversation among fellow scholars explores the impact of the Anthropocene on children’s literature and culture scholarship. It focuses on, among other things, a gap between critical discourse on the Anthropocene and the creative output of children’s books that often rely on simplified eco-hero narratives. Such books burden the young generation with the responsibility for the future instead of encouraging cross-generational engagement. The d…
Sociology (12 works) · Themes in Literature Analysis (9 works) · Philosophy (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Aesthetics (5 works) · Art (5 works) · Epistemology (5 works) · History (5 works)