Visual Encounters in the Study of Rural Childhoods

Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-0-8135-8815-5
Verlag: Rutgers University Press

Buch, Englisch, 240 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 197 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 381 g

Visual Encounters in the Study of Rural Childhoods brings together visual studies and childhood studies to explore images of childhood in the study of rurality and rural life. The volume highlights how the voices of children themselves remain central to investigations of rural childhoods. Contributions look at representations and experiences of rural childhoods from both the Global North and Global South (including U.S., Canada, Haiti, India, Sweden, Slovenia, South Africa, Russia, Timor-Leste, and Colombia) and consider visuals ranging from picture books to cell phone video to television.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mandrona, April

Mitchell, Claudia

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Preface
- Forward 
- 1. Introduction: Beginnings
- Part I
- Images and Imaginings in the Study of Rural Childhoods
- 2. Pastoral Visions of Childhood: Selling Suburbia as Home in the American Countryside
- Holley Wlodarczyk
- 3. Educating for the World Beyond: Challenging Idyllic Images of the Rural School
- Jonathan Kresmer
- 4. Nature Lovers as Nation Lovers in Canadian TV’s The Forest Rangers (1963–1965)
- Jennifer VanderBurgh
- 5. Video Game Depictions of Rural Childhoods in the Global South: Get Water! and Ayiti: 
- The Cost of Life 
- Renee Jackson & April Mandrona
- 6. Patriot Boys and Pioneer Girls: Christian Homeschool Texts, Gender, and the American Rural Idyll
- Elizabeth Shively
- 7. Rural Girlhoods in Picturebooks: Visual Constructions of Social Practices  
- Karen Eppley
- Part II
- Acts of Memory and Imagination
- 8. The Place of Girls? Collective Memory Work in the Study of Portrayals of Rural Girlhood in Swedish Child and Youth Literature
- Eva Söderberg, Sara Nyhlén, Katja Gillander Gådin, & Katarina Giritli Nygren
- 9. I Am a Child of Back-to-the-Landers
- Sheilah Wilson
- 10. Pekupatikut Innuat Akunikana / “Pictures Woke the People Up”: Revisiting Inuit Childhoods through Facebook
- Wendy Ewald & Eric Gottesman
- Part III
- How We See It: Children’s Participation in Studying Rural Childhoods
- 11. A Tale of Two Kindergartens: Visual Representations of Slovenian Children’s Daily Lives in a Rural and an Urban Setting 
- Barbara Turk Niskac
- 12. The Story of Peter Both-in-One: Using Visual Storytelling Methods to Understand Resilience among Transgender and Gender Nonconforming Young Children in Rural New England
- Sally Campbell Galman
- 13. Growing up Rural in South Africa: On Using Cellphilms to Engage Children’s Ideas of Social Spaces 
- Naydene de Lange
- 14. Image-Based Research: What Does Childhood Look Like in a Small Village? 
- Irina Kosterina
- 15. Reimagining Rural Childhoods through Participatory Video and Global Education  
- Kelly Royds
- 16. The Perfect Computer? Children’s Experiences with ICT in Rural Colombia 
- Diana Carolina Garcia Gomez and Helle Strandgaard Jensen
- Index
- Acknowledgements
- Notes on Contributors

Über Autor(innen)

April Mandrona is an assistant professor at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in Halifax, Canada.
 
Claudia Mitchell is a James McGill Professor at McGill University in Quebec, Canada, and a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. She is the editor-in-chief of Girlhood Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal, and the author or coeditor of numerous books.