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Childhood, Agency, and Fantasy
Walking in Other Worlds
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2021
Summary
Joining the emergent interdisciplinary investment in bridging the social sciences and the humanities, Childhood, Agency, and Fantasy: Walking in Other Worlds explores linkages between children’s agency and fantasy. Fantasy as an integral aspect of childhood and as a genre allows for children’s spectacular dreams and hopeful realities. Friendship, family, identity, loyalty, belongingness, citizenry, and emotionality are central concepts explored in chapters that are anchored by humanities texts of television, film, and literature, but also by social science qualitative methods of participant observation and interviews. Fantasy has the capacity to be a revolutionary change agent that in its modernity can creatively reflect, critique, or reimagine the social, political, and cultural norms of our world. Such promise is also found to be true of children’s agency, wherein children’s beings and becomings, rooted in childhood’s freedoms and constraints, result in a range of outcomes. In the endeavor to broaden theory and research on children’s agency, fantasy becomes a point of possibility with its expanding subjectivities, far-reaching terrain, and spirit of adventure.
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Edition
1/2021
Copyright year
2021
ISBN-Print
978-1-4985-9429-5
ISBN-Online
978-1-4985-9430-1
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
280
Product type
Edited Book
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Acknowledgments No access
Chapter 1. Where Do We Belong? No access
Chapter 2: A Futile Rage against the Machine No access
Chapter 3: Developing Children’s Agency through Play with Imaginary Companions No access
Chapter 4: Arcadia Is in the Hands of Teenagers No access
Chapter 5: The Boy Who Lives No access
Chapter 6: All in the Family No access
Chapter 7: Young People’s Agency in Online Fan Spaces No access
Chapter 8: Girls’ Agency through Supermobility No access
