Childhood, Futurity, and Settler Time
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 22124155 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Bridget Stirling (0000-0001-5867-7266, University of Alberta, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Pages | 34-46 |
| Publication date | 2022-06-16 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| 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/jcs202219927 |
| OpenAlex | W4283027372 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 24 |
Settler childhood’s futurity is grounded in settler time: the colonial temporal structures of settlers that view time as strictly delineated, in opposition to Indigenous temporal heterogeneity—the coexistence of a multiplicity of temporalities. Mark Rifkin describes this temporal heterogeneity as having the power to unsettle settler frames of reference. In response to Adam Gaudry’s call for settlers to engage in insurgent research by engaging with Indigenous research and worldviews while focusing on settler problems, turning to the tension of settler time with Indigenous temporal sovereignty alongside Barbara Adam’s conception of temporal care relations offers a way to unsettle settler childhoods. Bringing together two ways of rethinking temporality through Dwayne Donald’s conception of ethical relationality enables a critique of colonialism without seeking to take up Indigenous childhoods to fill the broken spaces in settlers’ own. This effort reflects Alexis Shotwell’s warning to attendees of the Common Worlds colloquium Responding to Ecological Challenges with/in Contemporary Childhoods: An Interdisciplinary Colloquium on Climate Pedagogies to be attentive to epistemic extractivism and the problem of settlers seeking to resolve the damage of colonialism through seeking to behave as if they are Indigenous. Instead, I propose a way forward in which children are reentangled in both common worlds and common fates
Aesthetics · Archaeology · Colonialism · Epistemology · Indigenous · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Sovereignty · Temporalities · Temporality · Environmental Education and Sustainability · History · Indigenous and Place-Based Education · Law · Philosophy · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism · Ecology
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Rethinking temporalities through being with children
‘Who can tell what the future brings?’ Cruel optimism and poster children in Great Ormond Street Hospital’s 1987–1989 Wishing Well Campaign
Gurung Dharug Ngurrawa (kids on Dharug Country) - centring children's experiences of Indigenous-led tourism
Ghostly Entanglements and Ruptures
Future Matters
Curriculum, Replacement, and Settler Futurity
Citizenship and the Ethics of Care
Utopia, Childhood and Intention
Childhood Studies and child psychology
Environmental Justice at the Crossroads
Native time’ in the white city
Affective Approaches to Environmental Education
Nature Ethics
Human Rights in Light of Childhood
Children caring for their worlds
An Indigenous Feminist's Take On The Ontological Turn
Different Diasporas and the Hype of Hybridity
The child and childhood in feminist theory
A bitter taste of fish
Children and environment
Reconceptualizing the 'nature' of childhood
Countering the conceits of the Anthropos
Beyond Settler Time
The Mushroom at the End of the World
Decolonizing Methodologies
Ontologies of Indigeneity
| Unique citing works | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,5 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2026 (3) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |