{"product_id":"child-as-citizen-agency-and-activism-in-childrens-literature-and-culture-hardback-9781496858405","title":"Child As Citizen; Agency and Activism in Children's Literature and Culture (Hardback) 9781496858405","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eChild As Citizen\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eAgency and Activism in Children's Literature and Culture\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eGiuliana Fenech (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781496858405\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 15 August 2025\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e268 pages, 5 b\u0026amp;w illustrations\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm, 0.666 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"A timely publication on child citizenship, agency, rights, and activism that explores a variety of contexts—from literature to TikTok videos to nightly museum activities.\" - Vanessa Joosen, author of \u003ci\u003eAdulthood in Children’s Literature\u003c\/i\u003e and editor of \u003ci\u003eConnecting Childhood and Old Age in Popular Media\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A truly engaged, highly intelligent, and very assured collection about the possibilities of agency as enabled through children’s literatures and cultures.\" - Blanka Grzegorczyk, author of \u003ci\u003eTerror and Counter-Terror in Contemporary British Children’s Literature\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eDiscourses of Postcolonialism in Contemporary British Children’s Literature\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eContributions by Daniela Brockdorff, Nina Christensen, Jill Coste, Katrin Dautel, Justyna Deszcz-Tryhubczak, Giuliana Fenech, Naomi Hamer, Irena Barbara Kalla, Anne Klomberg, Sonali Kulkarni, Elizabeth Leach-Leung, Ann Marie Murnaghan, Emily Murphy, Emilie Owens, Nicola Parker, Patrycja Poniatowska, Meg Rosoff, and Farriba Schulz.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChild as Citizen: Agency and Activism in Children's Literature and Culture\u003c\/i\u003e addresses children’s and young adult agency and activism across literature and culture, demonstrating how these forces influence child citizenship. Contributors to this volume highlight the agentic voices and activist practices that are growing across all spheres of young people’s lives, as well as the challenges to active citizenship that children growing up in unjust sociopolitical contexts face. The volume is interdisciplinary and draws on the sociology of childhood, children’s literature studies, youth culture studies, media, technology, and cultural studies, and Anthropocene, ecofeminist, and disability studies.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAgency occurs in and around literature and storytelling, and this collection establishes how it is always influenced by identity as well as geopolitics; how it is both subjective and collective; how it is cultural and embodied; and how, like citizenship, it is not a static status but rather an ongoing negotiation. In this collection, contributors invite readers to consider agency as a system of relations between children themselves, between children and adults, children and institutions, and children and nation-states, as well as between children and the nonhuman. This book reviews the interconnectedness between these relationships and attempts to untangle some of the complications that emerge.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: Agency, Activism, and Citizenship in Children’s and Young Adult Literature and Culture\u003cbr\u003eGiuliana Fenech\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I. The Urgent Need for Care-Full Activism: An Author, Activist, and Academic’s Perspective\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 1: \"Do You Think You’ll Ever Write a Real Book?\" Troubled Children and the Trouble with Writing for Children in 2022\u003cbr\u003eMeg Rosoff\u003cbr\u003eChapter 2: A Human Rights Practitioner’s Perspective: How Literature for Children Can Support Their Rights to Justice, Dignity, and Voice\u003cbr\u003eNicola Parker\u003cbr\u003eChapter 3: Labors of Care: A Proposition of a Care-Full Children’s Culture Studies\u003cbr\u003eJustyna Deszcz-Tryhubczak\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II. Literary Agency and a Recasting of Equitable Child Citizenship\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 4: Relational Agency, Children’s Literature, and Childhood\u003cbr\u003eNina Christensen\u003cbr\u003eChapter 5: Resisting Eugenic Legacies: Child Agency in Protecting Disabled Citizenship in Children’s and Young Adult Literature\u003cbr\u003eElizabeth Leach-Leung\u003cbr\u003eChapter 6: From Ageism to Agency: Generation Z Authors as Inevitable Activists\u003cbr\u003eJill Coste\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III. Childhood Ecologies and the Agency to Act and Heal\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 7: Shifting Boundaries: Objects, Narratives, and Nonhuman Entities as Means Toward Agency in Narratives on Child Abuse and Neglect\u003cbr\u003eDaniela Brockdorff and Katrin Dautel\u003cbr\u003eChapter 8: Ecological Education in Twenty-First-Century Children’s Literature About the Holocaust: A Comparative Ecocritical Reading\u003cbr\u003eIrena Barbara Kalla and Patrycja Poniatowska (translator)\u003cbr\u003eChapter 9: Roots of Rebellion: An Ecofeminist Reading of Citizenship and Climate Activism in Adolescent Fiction\u003cbr\u003eAnne Klomberg\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart IV. Systemic Agency and Sites of Recognition and Engagement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 10: Reading of What Is Yet to Come: Anthropocentric Children’s Literature and Childhood Agency\u003cbr\u003eFarriba Schulz\u003cbr\u003eChapter 11: Can You Hear My Voice? Participatory Research as a Method for Reclaiming Children’s Agency in the Archive\u003cbr\u003eEmily Murphy\u003cbr\u003eChapter 12: Exploring the Museum at Night: Young People’s Agency and Citizenship in Museum-Related Children’s Literature and Programming\u003cbr\u003eNaomi Hamer and Ann Marie Murnaghan\u003cbr\u003eChapter 13: Young Adult Agency on BookTok: A Practice Theory Inquiry into Young Readers’ Active Reshaping of Digital Literary Criticism on TikTok\u003cbr\u003eSonali Kulkarni and Emilie Owens\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAbout the Contributors\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University Press of Mississippi","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52607728222488,"sku":"9781496858405","price":60.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/child-as-citizen-agency-and-activism-in-childrens-literature-and-culture-hardback-9781496858405","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}