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2. Stories That Matter

Author : Karen Malone

Published in: Children in the Anthropocene

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK

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Abstract

This chapter explores the theoretical framing of the book, my understandings of the role of children as co-researchers and the means through which diverse research approaches have contributed to the research designs where the retrospective data used in this book were obtained. I outline how throughout the book I am reworking and reconsidering intra-species, intra-nature relations and questions of the ‘human-centric’, ‘Western-centric’ and ‘class-centric’ universalisms of dominant voices in the current discourses of children in cities research that has focused on high-income nations. It identifies how I am working the theory, enacting posthumanist and new relational materialist readings retrospectively, to shift away from the child as the central object of my gaze. I explore the ways I am being attentive to and noticing the non-human entities through which children’s worlds are being encountered in their everyday life. The chapter frames my rethinking of agency as central to a relational ontology, by possessing possibilities for not localizing agency in the human subject, not being possessed by humans or non-humans but distributed across an assemblage of humans and non-humans.

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Metadata
Title
Stories That Matter
Author
Karen Malone
Copyright Year
2018
Book
Children in the Anthropocene

Print ISBN: 978-1-137-43090-8

Electronic ISBN: 978-1-137-43091-5

Copyright Year: 2018

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-43091-5_2