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    Visual Encounters in the Study of Rural Childhoods

    April Mandrona (Edited by), Claudia Mitchell (Edited by), Naydene De Lange (Contributions by), Karren Eppley (Contributions by), Wendy Ewald (Contributions by), Eric Gottesman (Contributions by), Sally Campbell Galman (Contributions by), Diana Carolina Garcia Gomez (Contributions by), Helle Stranfaard Jensen (Contributions by), Renee Jackson (Contributions by), Irina Kosterina (Contributions by), Jonathan Kremser (Contributions by), Barbara Turk Niskac (Contributions by), Sara Nyhlen (Contributions by), Katarina Gritli Nygren (Contributions by), Katja Gillander-Gadin (Contributions by), Eva Soderberg (Contributions by), Kelly Royds (Contributions by), Beth Shively (Contributions by), Jennifer Vanderburgh (Contributions by), Sheilah Restack (Contributions by), Holley Wlodarczyk (Contributions by), Relebohile Moletsane (Foreword by)

    9780813588162

    Hardback, published 2 July 2018

    270 pages, 25 b-w figures
    22.9 x 15.2 x 2.3 cm, 0.517 kg

    "Visual Encounters in the Study of Rural Childhoods is a welcome addition on many fronts. It tackles rural childhood in many locations around the world, both Global North and Global South, and it does so by means of studying the visual. Instead of taking images of carefree rural childhoods at face value, the authors delve into their hidden meanings. What are we really seeing in these visions and versions of childhood? This is recommended reading for scholars in many fields: childhood studies, rural history, history of gender and sexuality, and so many others."
     
    — Pamela Riney-Kehrberg, author of Childhood on the Farm: Work, Play, and Coming of Age in the Midwest


    "This is a book of intersections that takes the seemingly temporal idea of childhood and connects it to the apparently spatial idea of rurality. This is very stimulating reading that employs the visual turn to illustrate some of the many ways childhood is experienced and represented in rural geographies. This work offers a timely challenge to established stereotypes about both childhood and rural life."
    — Michael Corbett, coauthor of Rural Literacies: Transnational Perspectives

    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. 

    Contents
    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 Niskač
    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 

     
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