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Children's Cultures after Childhood
Edited by Justyna Deszcz-Tryhubczak and Macarena García-González
[Children’s Literature, Culture, and Cognition 16] 2023
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Chapter 1
Ethics, epistemologies, and relational ontologies in researching children’s cultures

| University of Wrocław
| University of Glasgow

This chapter argues for a new materialist and posthumanist understanding of children’s cultures as formed by naturalcultural assemblages destabilizing anthropocentric notions of childhood, adulthood, agency, age, creativity, and text. The chapter provides an overview of recent developments in childhood studies – in particular around the decentering of the child (Spyrou 2017, Diaz-Diaz & Semenec 2020) and the “after childhood” approach (Kraftl 2020) – to propose that they may enable new methodological openings in textual and empirical work with texts and media (co-)created for/by/with young audiences.

Keywords: after childhood, children’s cultures, decentering of the child, new materialism, posthumanist childhood studies
Article outline
  • The porous field of children’s cultures
  • Children’s culture as intra-actions
  • References
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Published online: 8 August 2023
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