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In this vital volume, Erica Burman presents a synthesis of her work developed over the past decade. Building from her path-breaking critiques of developmental psychology to the strategy of plural developments, her more recent work elaborates a new approach, generated from postcolonial, feminist intersectionality and migration studies: Child as method.

This text amplifies the Child as method's success as a distinct way of exploring the alignments of current new materialist' or posthumanist approaches with supposedly older' materialist analyses, including Marxist theory, feminist theory, anticolonial approaches and psychoanalytic perspectives. It assumes that childhood is a material practice, both undertaken by children themselves and by those who live and work with them, as well as by those who define politics, policies and popular culture about children. Key chapters interrogate historical legacies arising from the Eurocentric origins of what are now globalised models of moder

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      Publisher Taylor & Francis
      Imprint Taylor & Francis Ltd
      Published 3/19/2024
      ISBN-13 9781032255729
      978-1032255729
      ISBN-10 1032255722
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      Book Synopsis

      In this vital volume, Erica Burman presents a synthesis of her work developed over the past decade. Building from her path-breaking critiques of developmental psychology to the strategy of plural developments, her more recent work elaborates a new approach, generated from postcolonial, feminist intersectionality and migration studies: Child as method.

      This text amplifies the Child as method's success as a distinct way of exploring the alignments of current new materialist' or posthumanist approaches with supposedly older' materialist analyses, including Marxist theory, feminist theory, anticolonial approaches and psychoanalytic perspectives. It assumes that childhood is a material practice, both undertaken by children themselves and by those who live and work with them, as well as by those who define politics, policies and popular culture about children. Key chapters interrogate historical legacies arising from the Eurocentric origins of what are now globalised models of moder

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