Multiple Childhoods/Multidisciplinary Perspectives: Call for Papers

21 August 2010
Multiple Childhoods/Multidisciplinary Perspectives: Call for Papers
Deadline: 15 November 2010
Geographical Restrictions: no mention
Reading Fee: none
Accepts (genre): papers
Prize/Payment: undisclosed

Papers may be on any topic or subject that takes children and youth as a central theme and addresses ideas or invocations of normative childhood(s). Examples include, but are not limited to:

* racialized, ethnic, gender and class positionings/identities and the valuation of particular childhoods as “good,” “bad” or “different”
* socially and economically disadvantaged childhoods in Global South as well as Global North contexts
* queer/sexually questioning children and youth
* children (and their families) facing physical, developmental and/or emotional challenges and disabilities
* children’s rights and forms of public and civic participation
* historical assumptions about normative versions of children and childhoods
* representations of children, youth and childhoods in literature, history, popular discourse and popular culture (political and commercial speech, advertising, film and television)
* the various childhoods emergent through consumer-media culture
* conceptualizations of normative/non-normative childhoods as codified in law, policy, governance and schools
* methodological and theoretical interventions addressing multiple childhoods

Deadlines:

* Abstract submission: Opens September 1 and closes November 15, 2010
* Notification of Acceptance: January 31, 2011
* Early Registration Deadline: (Required for all Presenters) March 31, 2011
* Final Registration Deadline: April 29, 2011

Abstract Submission
*Abstract submission opens here September 1st

* Separate cover sheet with: title, name and affiliation (s) of authors, include email and phone number of contact person (first author)
* Abstract of 250-300 words that discusses the problem, research, methods and relevance. Use MS Word document.
* Note: DO NOT put identifying information in the body of the abstract; only on cover sheet
* Roundtables: A limited number of roundtables will be accepted. Include a rationale for the roundtable and abstracts from all presenters. No more than 4 presenters and chair. If the Committee does not accept the roundtable, please indicate which (if any) proposed papers want to be considered individually.
* We encourage presenters to think of ways to incorporate children’s non-trivial (i.e.. non-token) participation in sessions and roundtables. Send us your thoughts.

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