Feminist Research for 21st-century Childhoods

This book<i></i>is a collection of feminist childhood studies stories from field research with educators young children and/or early childhood student-educators that explores the challenges tensions and possibilities of common worlds research methods for the 21st century. Grounded in a common worlding orientation the contributing authors grapple with complex methodological understandings within postqualitative practices within settler colonial states: Australia Canada South Africa and the Unites States. Each chapter presents a method the authors have put to work in their efforts to unsettle the interpretative power of Euro-Western developmental knowledges and anthropocentric frameworks to reimagine research amid the colonialist social and environmental challenges we face today. <br/> <br/>The research(ing) stories act as provocations for generating innovative relational and emergent methods to attend to the complexity of 21st-century childhoods. Just as developmental and sociological perspectives gave birth to new forms of inquiry within childhood studies in 19th-century industrialization and 20th-century urban change respectively the 21st-century requires novel questions practices and methodologies to enhance the childhood studies lexicon. In the field ofchildhood studies where settler colonial and neoliberal logics have so much clout suchstrategies are crucial. <i>Feminist Research for 21st-century Childhoods</i> is an important and relevant read for anyone working and researching with children.