Table of contents
Acknowledgements
List of figures and tables
Chapter 1.Ethics, epistemologies, and relational ontologies in researching children’s cultures
Cluster 1.New materialist readings of children’s cultural texts
Chapter 2.Transcorporeality in 21st-century mermaid tales
Chapter 3.Messy assemblages: Interplay of the organic and the inorganic in children’s toy stories
Chapter 4.Exploring animality and childhood in stop-motion animation Prokofiev’s Peter & the Wolf
Chapter 5.Childhood and its afterlives: Spectrality and haunting in children’s literature
Cluster 2.Relational approaches in empirical research on children’s cultures
Chapter 6.Enacting the tween news viewer: Supernytt and its audience
Chapter 7.Dynamics of age and power in a children’s literature research assemblage
Chapter 8.Research with children, weeds, and a book: An after-childhood perspective
Chapter 9.Fabric with feeling: Materiality, memory, and affect in Nina Sabnani’s Mukand and Riaz
Cluster 3.After-children’s culture studies
Chapter 10.Down the back of a chair: What does a method of scrabbling with Le Guin’s “Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction” offer conceptualizations of “the child” in the Anthropocene?
Chapter 11.Weird readings and little machines: Against reading engagement
Chapter 12.Literature and culture studies in classrooms: From petrification to spark
Afterword: New materialist insights for the text-based scholar
Index