{"id":2702,"date":"2020-10-31T02:44:48","date_gmt":"2020-10-31T06:44:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lerrn\/?p=2702"},"modified":"2022-03-12T18:00:50","modified_gmt":"2022-03-12T23:00:50","slug":"call-for-papers-global-studies-of-childhood-childrens-art-in-times-of-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lerrn\/2020\/call-for-papers-global-studies-of-childhood-childrens-art-in-times-of-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"[CLOSED] Call for Papers – Global Studies of Childhood: “Children\u2019s Art in Times of Crisis”"},"content":{"rendered":"

PLEASE NOTE: The submission period for this call has closed.<\/h3>\n

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Global Studies of Childhood<\/i><\/a> is seeking submissions for a special double issue on “Children’s Art in Times of Crisis” to be published in June 2021. All papers must go through a peer-review process. Submit a draft to artintimesofcrisis@gmail.com<\/a> no later than February 1, 2021<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n

This special issue of Global Studies of Childhood focuses on children\u2019s art and its relation to social crises. Child Studies scholars, psychologists, educators, clinicians, and curators have long held that making art helps children process and socialize difficult experience. This themed issue explores the affective, aesthetic, emotional, social, and political processes involved in the making and sharing of art, placing emphasis on the potential for art to offer insight into the circumstances, consequences, and urgencies of crisis. We aim to bring together articles that address children\u2019s use of art to process, symbolize, and communicate their experiences and histories of migration, war, surveillance, social crises, political turmoil, and survival. David Marshall has written extensively about the relationship between trauma, aesthetic expression, and politics in Palestine. For Ruth Nicole Brown, \u201cthe desire to play with movement, sound, images, and words against the assumable or knowable figure of the Black girl is very much a part of her creative process\u201d. Glynis Clacherty and Diane Welvering\u2019s \u201cThe Suitcase Project\u201d has used art therapy and storytelling to offer psychosocial support to refugee children in South Africa. In Lives Turned Upside Down: Homeless Children in Their Own Words and Photographs<\/em>, Jim Hubbard archives images made by children ages nine to twelve, that reflect their experiences with homelessness and life in shelters. Taken together, this body of work demonstrates the power of arts-based approaches to working with children. Children\u2019s art has been mobilized by a range of actors as testimony to racism, war, apartheid, abuse, resilience, and optimism, and when taken seriously, raises inquiry into its meaning, narrative, and interpretation.<\/p>\n

We aim to solicit an interdisciplinary collection of articles produced from a range of fields that share an investment in bridging child studies, art\/aesthetics, politics, and pedagogy. Children\u2019s art harnesses considerable affective power and as a result is and has been historically mobilized and reproduced by non-profit and political organizations for fundraising purposes, PR maneuvers, and neo-liberal campaigns. Its affective capacities, though, can also galvanize its audiences towards new ethical feelings about and responses to injustice. In asking how making, curating, and witnessing children\u2019s art helps to register children\u2019s agency, we seek articles that open up new lines of inquiry for child studies. Because, as Robin Bernstein, Jules Gill-Peterson, Erica Meiners, Rebekah Sheldon, and Kathryn Bond Stockton have rightly shown, discourses of innocence can impact children\u2019s subject formation, making art can remind others of their complexity. The editors encourage the submission of work that engages childhood in relation to race, citizenship, disability, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, and class.<\/p>\n

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