Title & Author:

Visual encounters in the study of rural childhoods / edited by April Mandrona and Claudia Mitchell.

Publication:

New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2018]

Description:

xiv, 253 pages ; 23 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : beginnings -- Pastoral visions of childhood : selling suburbia as home in the American countryside / Holley Wlodarczyk -- Educating for the world beyond : challenging idyllic images of the rural school / Jonathan Kresmer -- Nature lovers as nation lovers in Canadian TV's The forest rangers (1963-1965) / Jennifer VanderBurgh -- Video game depictions of rural childhoods in the global south : get water! and Ayiti : the cost of life / Renee Jackson & April Mandrona -- Patriot boys and pioneer girls : Christian homeschool texts, gender, and the American rural idyll / Elizabeth Shively -- Rural girlhoods in picturebooks : visual constructions of social practices / Karen Eppley -- The place of girls? Collective memory work in the study of portrayals of rural girlhood in Swedish child and youth literature / Eva Soderberg, Sara Nyhlen, Katja Gillander Gadin, & Katarina Giritli Nygren -- I am a child of back-to-the-landers / Sheilah Restack -- Pekupatikut innuat akunikana / "Pictures woke the people up" : revisiting Innu childhoods through photography / Wendy Ewald & Eric Gottesman -- A tale of two kindergartens : visual representations of Slovenian children's daily lives in a rural and an urban setting / Barbara Turk Niskac -- 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 -- Growing up rural in South Africa : on using cellphilms to engage children's ideas of social spaces / Naydene de Lange -- Image-based research : what does childhood look like in a small village? / Irina Kosterina -- Reimagining rural childhoods through participatory video and global education / Kelly Royds -- The perfect computer? Children's experiences with ICT in rural Colombia / Diana Carolina Garcia Gomez and Helle Strandgaard Jensen.

Summary:

"The modern world is increasingly urban. Yet for the majority of the earth's children (age 0-19), the rural remains a feature of their lives. Even people who have migrated to the cities come from (and bring along) the rural. They travel back to visit family, or they bring their customs into the city with them. Rural life can thus continue to occupy a space in memory and through photographs and other artefacts, even if migration practices and the world of the digital means that there are fewer physical and mental traces of it. Visual Encounters and Rural Childhood brings together visual studies and children's studies to look at images of childhood as an entry point to study rurality and rural life. With an impressively global roster of chapter authors and visual culture ranging from film to children's literature to cell phone video, the voices of the children remain central in this investigation into what we can learn about rural life through the media from and about children"-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

9780813588155 paperback alkaline paper
0813588154 paperback alkaline paper
9780813588162 hardcover alkaline paper
0813588162 hardcover alkaline paper

Subject:

Rural children In mass media.
Rural children Social conditions.
Enfants en milieu rural Dans les médias.
Enfants en milieu rural Conditions sociales.

Added entries:

Mandrona, April, editor.
Mitchell, Claudia, editor.
Mandrona, April editor.
Mitchell, Claudia editor.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 302678
Call No.: BIB 248859
Status: Available