Full Description
This book considers the identity of the motherscholar, a mother who draws from their practice of mothering to inform their art and scholarship and from their scholarship to inform how they mother.
By considering the identity of the motherscholar the contributors from Canada, Finland, India, New Zealand, and the USA work to reconceptualize feminist approaches to childhood research and uncover formerly invisibilized public pedagogies of childhood. Through theoretical research, visual art, stories and oral histories, the contributors explore how their fused identities affect and multiply structural and interpersonal transformation in homes, in communities, and in pedagogical spaces. They describe a mother as a self-identifying or non-binary person with caregiving responsibilities including but not limited to biological mothers, adoptive mothers, stepmothers, alloparents, grandmothers, mothers who are childless, mothers who are grieving, and mothers who are experiencing infertility.
Contents
Series Editor's Foreword
Part I: Motherscholarship and Public Pedagogies
1. Mother-Daughter (Re)turns: Storying Early Childhood Encounters with Difference, Fikile Nxumalo (University of Toronto, Canada), Aiyana Mate (University of Pennsylvania, USA) and Leilani Mate (Anderson High School in Austin, USA).
2. Sympoietic---Rhizomatic motherhoods, Lilly Manycolors (Independent Scholar)
3.. Inhabit, Holli McEntegart (Artist, Auckland NZ)
4.. Reconceiving the (In)Hospitable, R. Darden Bradshaw (University of Dayton)
5. On (Re)productive Lives and Academic Nurturance, Dana Carlisle-Kletchka (The Ohio State University, USA)
6. Hope: The Art of Black Motherhood, Jameka Hartley (Rhode Island School of Design, USA)
Part II: Mothering as Uncontrolled and Unknowable
7. Mama, Children, PawPaws: A Motherscholar's Feral Pedagogy, Lillian Lewis (Virginia Commonwealth University, USA)
8. Threads that Connect and Protect: Participatory Exhibition as Mothering Practice, Natasha Reid and Caroline Boileau (University of Victoria, Canada and Freelance Artist, Montréal, Canada)
9. Iterations of a Mothering-ArtAdemic, Meaghan Brady Nelson (Belmont University, USA)
10.Care Ethics in Action: A Journey of Discovery, Zena Tredinnick-Kirby (Penn State University, USA)
11. Shadow Making, Shana Cinquemani (Rhode Island School of Design, USA)
12. Learning from Your Children Elizabeth Garber, Erin Garber-Pearson, Johannah Garber-Pearson and Reed Garber-Pearson (University of Arizona, Independent Artist, University of Arizona, University of Washington, USA)
Part III: Human and More Than Human Relationships
13. . Collaboration with the Land: Connection through Making, Jennifer Combe (University of Montana, USA)
14. Unwind and Dye: Craftswomen Lifecycles, Veronica Hicks (Virginia Commonwealth University, USA)
15. Existential Byproducts, Molly Jo Burke and Nathan Gorgen (The Ohio State University and University of Cincinnati, USA)
16. Princess Kitties & the Privileges of Grandmotherscholarship, Christine Marmé Thompson (Penn State University, USA)
17. Sympoiesis: Let's Merge with HOP Studio, Marissa McClure Sweeny (Carlow University, USA)
18. Grief of Motherhood, Georgina Badoni (New Mexico State University, USA)
Part IV: Self-Identity and Interactive Motherscholarship
19. Arctic Encounters. In Grandma's Thoughts, Mirja Hiltunen (Universirty of Lapland, Finland)
20. Happily Even After: Tales of Korean Motherscholars, Hyunji Kwon (University of South Carolina, USA) and Ahran Koo (California State University, Fresno)
21. Child Art, Motherhood, and Empty Nest Challenges: Art Education Research as a Reflexive Practice, Borim Song (East Carolina University, USA)
22. Maternal Lineage of Labor, Mira Kallio-Tavin (University of Georgia, USA)
23. Mothering as a Transnational Motherscholar, Asavari Thatte (Pennsylvania College of Art and Design, USA)
24. In Conversation, Fall 2023, Maribel Lucero and Jorge Lucero (University of Illinois, USA)
25. Borders of Motherhood, Keeping Us In, Keeping Us Out: An Ethnodrama of Motherhood and Racialized Identity, Colleen H. Clements (University of Minnesota, USA) and Nimo Mohamed Abdi (Ohio State University, USA)
Index
