Full Description
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
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
