A Future “After Childhood”
Engaging the Anthropocene in Early Childhood Education
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 22124154 |
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| Authors | Paolo Russumanno (0009-0000-6223-5751, Western University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Pages | 25-31 |
| Publication date | 2023-06-09 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Childhood Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2371-4107 • E-ISSN: 2371-4115 |
| Publisher | University of Victoria Libraries (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.18357/jcs482202321253 |
| OpenAlex | W4380362172 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 11 |
s work After Childhood: Re-thinking Environment, Materiality, and Media in Children's Lives (Routledge, 2020) demands a strenuous exercise in reading, thinking, and imagining new ways of seeing and becoming within the field of childhood studies.Broadly speaking, this is a methodological experiment that mostly uses the theoretical positioning of new materialist and posthumanist thinking to unlock the potential for further interdisciplinary research.In this pursuit, Kraftl relentlessly breaks open scholastic silos, humanist languages, and widely agreedupon ways of knowing to present a carefully curated hodgepodge of disciplinary endeavours that reimagine the child and the world.At its core, this is the motivation for thinking with after childhood.As a human geographer and childhood studies scholar who embraces the spirit of new materialism, Kraftl has a unique disposition that encourages him to experiment with different methods across multiple disciplines.His entire work is a sensibly frenetic, gradual, and meandering procession in, out, and across a variety of scales.In each chapter, Kraftl pulls the reader into an unravelling exploration of intellectual curiosity, cautiously guiding the reader while simultaneously hurrying them to keep pace.Kraftl acts as a metaphorical tour guide in foreign lands, introducing wide-eyed child scholars to traditionally taboo disciplines and an emerging culture of embraced unknowns and becomings (Haraway, 2008).This tour of the unknown is necessary, not just for Kraftl's work, but for understanding and embracing the very difficult work of decentering oneself to embrace, welcome, and explore the entanglements, relations, and affects that emerge when we actively and insecurely position ourselves within the common worlds to think and become alongside the more-than-human (Kraftl et al
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