Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Acknowledgements vii
4. List of figures and tables ix
5. Chapter 1. Ethics, epistemologies, and relational ontologies in researching children’s cultures 1
6. Cluster 1. New materialist readings of children’s cultural texts
7. Chapter 2. Transcorporeality in 21st-century mermaid tales 20
8. Chapter 3. Messy assemblages 35
9. Chapter 4. Exploring animality and childhood in stop-motion animation Prokofiev’s Peter & the Wolf 52
10. Chapter 5. Childhood and its afterlives 71
11. Cluster 2. Relational approaches in empirical research on children’s cultures
12. Chapter 6. Enacting the tween news viewer 88
13. Chapter 7. Dynamics of age and power in a children’s literature research assemblage 102
14. Chapter 8. Research with children, weeds, and a book 122
15. Chapter 9. Fabric with feeling 137
16. Cluster 3. After-children’s culture studies
17. Chapter 10. Down the back of a chair 152
18. Chapter 11. Weird readings and little machines 171
19. Chapter 12. Literature and culture studies in classrooms 185
20. Afterword 201
21. Index 219