No. 9 (2023): Antropologie dzieciństwa

The ninth issue of the journal Etnografia. Praktyki, Teorie, Doświadczenia is devoted to the anthropology of childhood and interdisciplinary childhood studies, with a particular emphasis on the perspective of new childhood studies and on research conducted with children, treated as competent, agentive participants in social life. The contributors address questions of ethics and methodology in child-participatory research, power relations in the field, and the ways in which contemporary childhoods are shaped by mobility, institutions, and crises. The issue brings together reviews and analyses (including archival tracing of children in Polish ethnography and a discussion of arts-based research methods) with autoethnographic and ethnographic case studies focusing on education, migration, play, family cultural practices, and experiences of intimacy and illness. The issue is complemented by reviews of publications mapping the contemporary field of childhood studies.

Keywords: childhood, research ethics, childhood studies, disability, Maria Reimann, child, childhood, ethnographic archive, ethnographic fieldwork, fieldwork materials, unaccompanied minors, refugee children, participatory action research (PAR), engaged anthropology, research ethics, new childhood studies, anthropology of food in travel, children, holidays, foodways, Interpellation, post-Fordism, School of Education (Szkoła Edukacji), therapeutic culture, ideology, privatisation, art-based-research, qualitative methods, childhood studies, cultural stratification, music, lifestyle, family, parent-child relationship, elementary school, education, values, agency, participation, participant observation, toy guns, war play, vulnerable child, discourse analysis, play, child, adult, ethnographic fieldwork, Southern E’ñepá, Venezuelan Amazon, rare disease, genital surgeries, ethics, children’s participation, childhood studies, migrant children, care, crisis, border regime, solidarity, joint physical custody, childhood studies, child custody, children’s rights, Lapland, Finland, indigenous people, schooling, children’s rights, boarder regime, humanitarian crisis, art.-based activism, migration, childhood, war, Palestine, childhood studies, violence, Children’s cultures after childhood, Norbert Elias