Histories of childhood and man
Implications for childhood studies
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3104069 |
|---|---|
| Authors | H Knight (0000-0001-6173-6650, King’s University College, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 32 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 389-406 |
| Publication date | 2025-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Childhood (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0907-5682 • E-ISSN: 1461-7013 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/09075682241306839 |
| OpenAlex | W4405325661 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 59 |
Childhood studies is a field invested in history. This article positions histories of childhood within the context of anticolonial theory of the human, grounding the emergence of dominant Western stories of childhood in relation to Sylvia Wynter's theorization of Man. Weaving together critical theory, theorizations of childhood, and epistemological challenges to childhood studies, this work illustrates the ways that childhood becomes knowable through the colonial and racial violence embedded in Western ideas of the human. This larger history provides context for the exclusionary nature of Western childhood and also points to childhood as a critical site for undoing Man
Childhood studies · Developmental psychology · Sociology · Children's Rights and Participation · Early Childhood Education and Development · Gender Roles and Identity Studies · Psychology · Social Psychology
Race, discourse, and the origin of the Americas
The White Possessive
Tense and Tender Ties
Decolonizing Place in Early Childhood Education
Deconstructing Developmental Psychology
For the Children?
In the Wake
Decolonizing Feminism
Unparalleled Catastrophe for Our Species?
Girlhood Interrupted
Centuries of childhood
Ghostly Matters
Becoming Versus Being
National Identities and Socio-Political Changes in Latin America
Reimagining Childhood Studies
Childhood Citizenship, Governance and Policy
The 'Poor Child'
Freedom with Violence
Reconfiguring the Natures of Childhood
Liberalism and Empire
Decolonizing youth development
Sylvia Wynter
Letter to my children from a place called Land
Children, Rights and Childhood
Place-based disruptions of humanism, coloniality and anti-blackness in early childhood education
Productive encounters
Decolonizing place in early childhood studies
When intersectionality met childhood studies
Towards the human, after the child of Man
The quasi-human child
Imagining institutions of man
Reconstructing Childhood
Philippe Ariès’s ‘discovery of childhood’
The Ceremony Must be Found
By Birth or Consent
The Children's Rights Movement
Encounters with Wild Children
The figure of the child in democratic politics
Reconceptualising Children's Agency as Continuum and Interdependence
Recapitulation Theory and the New Education
Not so 'new'? Looking critically at childhood studies
An Introduction to Childhood Studies
Southern theories and decolonial childhood studies
Interrogating innocence
An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States
Unsettling the Coloniality of Being/Power/Truth/Freedom
Cultural Geographies lecture
| Unique citing works | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |