5. Video Game Depictions of Rural Childhoods in the Global South: Get Water! and Ayiti:The Cost of Life

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Foreword ix
4. Preface xiii
5. 1 Introduction 1
6. Part 1. Images and Imaginings in the Study of Rural Childhoods
7. 2. Pastoral Visions of Childhood: Selling Suburbia as Home in the American Countryside 19
8. 3. Educating for the World Beyond: Challenging Idyllic Images of the Rural School 34
9. 4. Nature Lovers as Nation Lovers in Canadian TV’s The Forest Rangers (1963–1965) 50
10. 5. Video Game Depictions of Rural Childhoods in the Global South: Get Water! and Ayiti:The Cost of Life 64
11. 6. Patriot Boys and Pioneer Girls: Christian Homeschool Texts, Gender, and the American Rural Idyll 78
12. 7. Rural Girlhoods in Picture Books: Visual Constructions of Social Practices 92
13. Part II: Acts of Memory and Imagination
14. 8. The Place of Girls? Collective Memory Work in the Study of Portrayals of Rural Girlhood in Swedish Child and Youth Literature 109
15. 9. I Am a Child of Back-to-the-Landers 123
16. 10. “Pekupatikut Innuat Akunikana” (“Pictures Woke the People Up”): Revisiting Innu Childhoods through Photography 135
17. Part III: How We See It: Children’s Participation in Studying Rural Childhoods
18. 11. A Tale of Two Kindergartens: Visual Representations of Slovenian Children’s Daily Lives in a Rural and an Urban Setting 147
19. 12. 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 161
20. 13. Growing Up Rural in South Africa: On Using Cellphilms to Engage Children’s Ideas of Social Spaces 176
21. 14. Image-Based Research: What Does Childhood Look Like in a Small Village? 190
22. 15. Reimagining Rural Childhoods through Participatory Video and Global Education 203
23. 16. The Perfect Computer? Children’s Experiences with ICT in Rural Colombia 218
24. Acknowledgments 233
25. Notes on Contributors 235
26. Index 243