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Abstract: In recent decades, there has been a fundamental shift in how children and young people1 are understood, perceived, and discussed publicly. No longer are children to be seen and not heard. Having as a notable reference point the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, and shaped by subsequent political and economic events, this changing mindset demands the explicit recognition of children's role in society, calling for greater attention to their voices and agency, thus emphasizing their fundamental role in the shaping of the present and future state of our world. From public policies and discourses to research practices, different—but interrelated—sectors of society are attempting more "inclusive" ... Read More PubDate: 2022-04-04T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Laurence Talairach deftly demonstrates throughout her work that the nineteenth century was a period in which literary creation and scientific questioning were two tightly knit interests. A significant period of scientific development, the nineteenth century also witnessed "the Victorian appetite for mass education" (6), and museums and collecting culture played a significant part in this intersection. Across the period, museums were becoming increasingly democratized; Talairach notes that by 1887 there were 240 public museums in Britain, compared to fewer than sixty in the year 1850 (2). The second half of the nineteenth century, of course, also witnessed the first "Golden Age" of children's literature, when ... Read More PubDate: 2022-04-04T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Beyond their shared categorization as hybrid historical-fantasy novels, the three texts reviewed here—Kelly Powell's Magic Dark and Strange, Jim Sheehan's The Rock of Achill, and Chloe Gong's These Violent Delights—offer a commentary on the gendered navigation of work and labour. Each envisions the differences of gendered labour practices in our current precarious "gig" economy, reflecting not only a shift away from resisting the economic status quo through revolution in young adult fantasy novels but a reflection on how young bodies are commodified in contemporary systems of labour. Powell's Magic Dark and Strange is set in a world in which the gig economy extends to waking the dead and paying for the pleasure of ... Read More PubDate: 2022-04-04T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Rachel Conrad's Time for Childhoods: Young Poets and Questions of Agency is a timely addition to a growing corpus of literature that foregrounds the cultural contributions of young writers and centres young people as "active interpreters, makers, and participants" (3) in their own right. In this concise and engaging monograph, Conrad makes a case for the serious consideration of poetry written by young people—that is, poets under the age of eighteen—who have been historically excluded from the literary canon. Time for Childhoods begins with an anecdote: Conrad, perusing the bookshop at the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art, is startled by a copy of Salting the Ocean: 100 Poems by Young Poets, edited by Naomi ... Read More PubDate: 2022-04-04T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Dans le monde de l'édition jeunesse au Québec, Élise Gravel fait figure de superhéroïne. Autrice et illustratrice d'une cinquantaine de livres, son premier album pour enfants, Le catalogue des gaspilleurs, est paru en 2003. Depuis, elle est publiée tant au Canada qu'aux États-Unis et en France, et ses livres ont été traduits en anglais et dans une vingtaine d'autres langues. En 2012, son album La clé à molette lui a valu le Prix littéraire du Gouverneur général dans la catégorie Jeunesse–Illustrations. En 2021, elle a même dessiné des monstres pour une planche de timbres interactifs proposée par le United States Postal Service (« L'illustratrice québécoise », Radio-Canada).C'est par La clé à molette, qui aborde la ... Read More PubDate: 2022-04-04T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: This issue is dedicated to the theme of public memory and children. It is guest edited by Jenny Wüstenberg, whose editorial follows this brief introduction. We hope this issue of Jeunesse will be memorable for you in many ways.One of the reasons we hope it will stick with you is that it is the first full "takeover" by a guest editor (at least in the collective memory of this editorial team). Another reason might be that this is the first issue of the journal to be published since its migration to the University of Toronto Press's (UTP) acclaimed journal division from being an independent journal supported by and working out of the University of Winnipeg. We wish to recognize here all that the University of Winnipeg ... Read More PubDate: 2022-04-04T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: A fundamental shift has occurred in recent decades in how children1 are presented and engaged with at lieux de mémoire—realms of memory understood in both the physical and symbolic sense (Nora and Kritzman). Critical examinations of such sites have begun questioning the extent to which children have been instrumentalized to underpin various narratives—including stories of national pride and of redemption in the face of the hardships of poverty, dictatorship, or genocide—rather than used to centre children's experiences in their own right. A growing number of museums and memorials are developing markers and exhibitions dedicated to the lives of children and are considering how to make historical heritage (and ... Read More PubDate: 2022-04-04T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Within most history museums, children's lives and perspectives rarely take centre stage in permanent exhibitions,1 which often rely on a limited range of materials, representational tropes, and superficial engagement. Like many other groups of historically marginalized people, including those who are poor, illiterate, colonized, racialized, disabled, queer, gender non-binary, and female, children's experiences and contributions have not been well-documented, preserved, or collected. Historical museum exhibitions often present children as examples of a generic type ("ten-year-old boy"), and overwhelmingly as historical victims. But children's knowledge, experience, cultural production, and material culture offer ... Read More PubDate: 2022-04-04T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: The events of the Second World War caused a mass displacement of millions of children. After the liberation, the "lost identity" of Europe's youth was seen as a major obstacle to the reconstruction of the European continent, triggering a wave of humanitarian activity (Zahra 3). In Poland, too, the repatriation of displaced children and reuniting of families became main concerns for state officials. These efforts, however, did not necessarily go hand in hand with the acknowledging and commemorating of the wartime experience of young refugees, many of whom were faced with mnemonic exclusion until at least the 1970s. With the increasing liberalization of the 1980s and the pluralization of collective memory in the ... Read More PubDate: 2022-04-04T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Over the past three to four decades, the history of the relationship between the state and the children placed in its care has gradually come under more scrutiny through a series of investigations and commissions of inquiry. What happened since the nineteenth century at former children's homes, industrial and residential schools, youth detention facilities, or migrant camps took place largely in silence or without recognition of wrongdoing at the time, usually with the unrepentant and hypocritical justification of concern for child welfare. Survivors of abuse from the final phases of these systems of "care" have now begun to come forward to tell their stories. They have demanded that their experiences as children ... Read More PubDate: 2022-04-04T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: How do we remember people, places, and histories that are difficult to access' The "politics of memory" vary across nations and countries and are largely developed out of "conflicting messages that can be used by politicians to justify or bolster opinions about political actions" (Roediger and Wertsch 15). In the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK or North Korea hereafter), society has been organized by a neo-patrimonial leadership that utilizes memories of a colonial past, of the Korean War, and of its subsequent struggles as an economically damaged country to sustain parts of its legitimacy. Hence for North Koreans, public memory originates from how the leadership has organized the society, how it talks ... Read More PubDate: 2022-04-04T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Focusing on the work of the London Foundling Hospital between 1741 and the mid-1860s, this article will explore the significance of infanticide, haunting, and spectrality in understanding the status and condition of the foundling child and the complex history of the hospital. Through different complex relations with, and variations of, death, the foundling child functioned as a "living ghost," haunting the margins of both society and life. Perceived as having narrowly escaped death through exposure or infanticide, the foundling embodied a spectral presence inseparable from the painful memory of its own immediate past as well as the hospital's origins. The establishment of the London Foundling Hospital was directly ... Read More PubDate: 2022-04-04T00:00:00-05:00
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