Producing Children
Critical Studies in Childhood Creativity
Peter C Kunze editor Victoria Ford Smith editor
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Rutgers University Press
Publishing:15th Apr '25
£29.99
This title is due to be published on 15th April, and will be despatched as soon as possible.
Producing Children imagines the possibility, indeed the inevitability, of a creative relation between children as producers and consumers by revising the long-established, hierarchical relation between adults and children. The chapters in this collection reveal that studying child-produced culture complicates our received understandings of children’s culture as culture by adults, for children, about children. They also underscore “children’s literature” as a cultural phenomenon that moves across and beyond genres, forms, and media. As a whole, this collection reveals that attention to child-produced culture invites dialogue and collaboration across fields and disciplines invested in the critical understanding of children as embodied beings and childhood as both a stage of development and discursive construct with social, political, economic, and cultural dimensions and influence. With the ongoing vibrancy of childhood studies as a multidisciplinary area of inquiry, studies of child-produced culture provide scholars with an exciting opportunity to complicate, enrich, and expand theorization of childhood creativity, children’s culture, and even children themselves.
"A welcome and eye-opening collection of richly contextualized, multidisciplinary studies that push us to think more seriously about children as cultural producers. This timely anthology moves forward in exciting ways important conversations about children's cultural agency, creativity, and collaborations with adults." -- Mary Celeste Kearney * author of Girls Make Media *
"A welcome and eye-opening collection of richly contextualized, multidisciplinary studies that push us to think more seriously about children as cultural producers. This timely anthology moves forward in exciting ways important conversations about children's cultural agency, creativity, and collaborations with adults." -- Mary Celeste Kearney * author of Girls Make Media *
"A welcome and eye-opening collection of richly contextualized, multidisciplinary studies that push us to think more seriously about children as cultural producers. This timely anthology moves forward in exciting ways important conversations about children's cultural agency, creativity, and collaborations with adults." -- Mary Celeste Kearney * author of Girls Make Media *
"Producing Children brings together rich, interdisciplinary perspectives to offer fresh insight on children's role in cultural production. The case studies explored in this collection reinforce the urgency of centering children's voices, experiences, and agency in how we understand the definitions and operations of culture." -- Ashleigh Greene Wade * author of Black Girl Autopoetics: Agency in Everyday Digital Practice *
"Producing Children brings together rich, interdisciplinary perspectives to offer fresh insight on children's role in cultural production. The case studies explored in this collection reinforce the urgency of centering children's voices, experiences, and agency in how we understand the definitions and operations of culture." -- Ashleigh Greene Wade * author of Black Girl Autopoetics: Agency in Everyday Digital Practice *
"Producing Children brings together rich, interdisciplinary perspectives to offer fresh insight on children's role in cultural production. The case studies explored in this collection reinforce the urgency of centering children's voices, experiences, and agency in how we understand the definitions and operations of culture." -- Ashleigh Greene Wade * author of Black Girl Autopoetics: Agency in Everyday Digital Practice *
ISBN: 9781978842311
Dimensions: 235mm x 156mm x 18mm
Weight: 340g
226 pages