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aggressions against childhood
ambivalences toward child protection
art about childhood
arts education
Author_Hannah Dyer
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child and youth studies
child development
child studies
childhood
childhood trauma
childhood’s cultural expressions
children’s art
children’s drawings
colonial history
cultural studies
education
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feminist theory
homophobia
innocence
nation building
political value
post-colonial studies
psychoanalysis
Queer
queer aesthetics
queer theory
settler-colonial studies
sex-education
theories of childhood
transnational politics
violence
war in Gaza
youth studies
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- ISBN 9781978804005
- Weight: 3g
- Dimensions: 127 x 203mm
- Publication Date: 08 Nov 2019
- Publisher: Rutgers University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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2020 Choice Outstanding Academic Title
In The Queer Aesthetics of Childhood, Hannah Dyer offers a study of how children’s art and art about childhood can forecast new models of social life that redistribute care, belonging, and political value. Dyer suggests that childhood’s cultural expressions offer insight into the persisting residues of colonial history, nation building, homophobia, and related violence. Drawing from queer and feminist theory, psychoanalysis, settler-colonial studies, and cultural studies, this book helps to explain how some theories of childhood can hurt children. Dyer’s analysis moves between diverse sites and scales, including photographs and an art installation, children’s drawings after experiencing war in Gaza, a novel about gay love and childhood trauma, and debates in sex-education. In the cultural formations of art, she finds new theories of childhood that attend to the knowledge, trauma, fortitude and experience that children might possess. In addressing aggressions against children, ambivalences towards child protection, and the vital contributions children make to transnational politics, she seeks new and queer theories of childhood.
In The Queer Aesthetics of Childhood, Hannah Dyer offers a study of how children’s art and art about childhood can forecast new models of social life that redistribute care, belonging, and political value. Dyer suggests that childhood’s cultural expressions offer insight into the persisting residues of colonial history, nation building, homophobia, and related violence. Drawing from queer and feminist theory, psychoanalysis, settler-colonial studies, and cultural studies, this book helps to explain how some theories of childhood can hurt children. Dyer’s analysis moves between diverse sites and scales, including photographs and an art installation, children’s drawings after experiencing war in Gaza, a novel about gay love and childhood trauma, and debates in sex-education. In the cultural formations of art, she finds new theories of childhood that attend to the knowledge, trauma, fortitude and experience that children might possess. In addressing aggressions against children, ambivalences towards child protection, and the vital contributions children make to transnational politics, she seeks new and queer theories of childhood.
HANNAH DYER is an assistant professor of child and youth studies at Brock University in Ontario, Canada.
