Exploring Materiality in Childhood

<p><em>Exploring Materiality in Childhood: Body Relations and Space</em> explores the multiple ways that childhood and materiality are intertwined and assembled. Bringing together a diverse range of authors this topical book makes a scholarly contribution to our understanding of the entanglements of materiality and childhoods in international contexts.</p><p>Chapters explore how various environments and material resources including technologies and consumer goods affect children’s lives. The book caters to a diverse range of theories in sociomaterialist posthumanist post-anthropocentric and more-than-human research critically exploring the boundaries of these theoretical approaches with diverse empirical cases. These wide ranges of perspectives develop alternatives to human-centred approaches in understanding children and childhoods. With its diverse theoretical and methodological choices the book also serves as a versatile example for how to conduct research with children and on childhood. </p><p>This book will be of great interest for academics researchers and postgraduate students in childhood studies early childhood education social sciences cultural sciences and sociology.</p>