Author Invitation

Title:  Childhood Predicaments:  Precarity, desire, loss, liminality, (im)possibility
Editors: Michael O’Loughlin, Carol Owens & Louis Rothschild
Publisher: Lexington Books / Rowman & Littlefield
Series: Critical Childhood and Youth Studies.
Date of submission:  1 April 2021

Abstract submission:

Please submit an abstract of approximately 500 words and a title to all editors by April 1, 2021.

Chapter submission:

Anticipated length: 7,000-8,000 words including all references.
Style: Times New Roman, double spaced, APA style references
Anticipated publication: 2022

Dear Colleagues,
Carol Owens, Louis Rothschhild and I are planning to edit a volume for the Critical Childhood and Youth Studies  series entitled Childhood Predicaments:  Precarity, desire, loss, liminality, (im)possibility.  The series has already published one volume, with one contracted, and we are hoping that this new book will help increase the profile of the series as a whole. In keeping with the inter- and cross-disciplinary intent of the series, we are hoping to develop a book that speaks urgently and expansively to the precarity and (im)possibilty of childhood.
I have attached a Call for Chapters for your consideration, and we invite you to prepare an abstract of a potential chapter if this project interests you. Feel free to contact any of us if you have specific questions regarding the project
The series flyer is also attached in case you may be interested in submitting a proposal for an authored or edited volume
Thanks for considering this and best wishes
Michael
michaeloloughlinphd@gmail.com
http://michaeloloughlinphd.com/ 

Author Invitation

Title:  Childhood Predicaments:  Precarity, desire, loss, liminality, (im)possibility
Editors: Michael O’Loughlin, Carol Owens & Louis Rothschild
Publisher: Lexington Books/ Rowman & Littlefield
Series: Critical Childhood and Youth Studies.
Date of submission:  1 April 2021

For this edited collection we seek authors who will address an internally focused, critical perspective regarding the social, political, emotional and mental growth of children.  Through the radical openness afforded by psychoanalytic and related frameworks, the goal of this work is to illuminate, promote, and help situate subjectivities that are often blotted out for both the child and society. To that end, we seek writing that opens up thought to challenge developmental and linear assumptions, hegemonies, and a bias toward homogeneity about children and childhood in order to help us to re-imagine childhoods otherwise. As such we welcome proposals for chapters that address the challenges involved in thinking about, and working with children  who have experienced traumas of dis-location  that do not fit neatly into normative theories of development (children who are poor, migrant, trans, of colour, etc.,).  The emphasis throughout the volume will be upon motifs of lostness and foundness, in terms of the geographies of the psycho-social, and how such motifs govern and regulate what have come to count as the normative indexes of childhood as well as how they exclude other real childhoods. For example, the notion of childhood innocence written into law powerfully legitimates regulatory as well as protective measures in societies.  As psychoanalysis attests, what is ‘lost’ in childhood finds its way into narratives of loss in adult functioning and these narratives are of interest since they allow us to re-theorize ideas of child, family, and society.

We invite essays that focus in and on dissociated places and moments across varied childhood(s).  In addition to clinical and other writing on children, we also welcome contributions in the form of autobiographical inquiry, historical, and literary exploration that interrogates un-corralled, refugee states with respect to post-colonial discourses of child-development.

Abstract submission:

Please submit an abstract of approximately 500 words and a title to all editors by April 1, 2021.

Chapter submission:

Anticipated length: 7,000-8,000 words including all references.
Style: Times New Roman, double spaced, APA style references
Anticipated publication: 2022

Editor contact information:

Michael O’Loughlin –  michaeloloughlinphd@gmail.com
Carol Owens – carolowensappi@gmail.com
Louis Rothschild – louisrothschildphd@gmail.com