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Child and Youth Agency in Science Fiction

Travel, Technology, Time
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Child and Youth Agency in Science Fiction: Travel, Technology, Time intersects considerations about children’s and youth’s agency with the popular culture genre of science fiction. As scholars in childhood studies and beyond seek to expand understandings of agency in children’s lives, this collection places science fiction at the heart of this endeavor. Retellings of the past, narratives of the present, and new landscapes of the future, each explored in science fiction, allow for creative reimaginings of the capabilities, movements, and agency of youth. Core themes of generation, embodiment, family, identity, belonging, gender, and friendship traverse across the chapters and inform the contributors’ readings of various film, literature, television, and virtual media sources. Here, children and youth are heterogeneous, and agency as a central analytical concept is interrogated through interdisciplinary, intersectional, intergenerational, and posthuman analyses. The contributors argue that there is vast power in science fiction representations of children’s agency to challenge accepted notions of neoliberal agency, enhance understandings of agency in childhood studies, and further contextualize agency in the lives, voices, and cultures of youth.

Author Biography:

Ingrid E. Castro is professor of sociology and chair of the Sociology, Anthropology, and Social Work Department at the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts. Jessica Clark is lecturer in childhood studies and sociology at the University of Essex.
Release date NZ
June 28th, 2021
Contributors
  • Contributions by Erin Kenny
  • Contributions by Ingrid E. Castro
  • Contributions by Jessica Clark
  • Contributions by Jessica Kenty-Drane
  • Contributions by Joseph Giunta
  • Contributions by Kip Kline
  • Contributions by Megan McDonough
  • Contributions by Muireann B. Crowley
  • Edited by Ingrid E. Castro
  • Edited by Jessica Clark
Pages
314
Audience
  • Professional & Vocational
Dimensions
154x219x18
ISBN-13
9781498597401
Product ID
35121487

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