Children and Youth as Subjects, Objects, Agents

Deborah Levison is a Professor at the Humphrey School of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota, USA. Mary Jo Maynes is a Professor of History at the University of Minnesota, USA. Frances Vavrus is a Professor in Comparative and International Development Education at the University of Minnesota, USA.

• 1. Children and Youth as Subjects, Objects, Agents: An Introduction; Deborah Levison, Mary Jo Maynes, and Frances Vavrus.- Section 1: Construction of Children and Youth as Subjects.- 2. "So How's Your Childhood Going?": A Historian of Childhood Confronts Her Own Archive; Elena Jackson Albarrán.- 3. Encountering Emotions in the Archive of Childhood and Youth; Emily C. Bruce.- 4. Visualizing the Space of Childhood and Youth.- 5. Turning Off the Recorder: Caring Relationships in Research with Youth; Judith Josephat Merinyo and Laura Wangsness Willemsen.- 6. Productive Tensions in Interdisciplinary and Mixed-methods Research on Youths' Livelihoods; Joan DeJaeghere.- Section 2: Critiquing Objectification of Children and Youth.- 7. The Daughters of Bengal:  A History of the Girl Victim under ‘Western Eyes’; Samia Khatun.- 8. Search for the Child in Colonial Uganda's Educational Archives; Elisabeth E. Lefebvre. 9. Black Sites of Speculation:  A Case for Theorizing Black Childhood as a Subject in Black Adult Narratives; Tammy C. Owens.- 10.  Archives, Adoption Records, and Owning Historical Memory; Kelly Condit-Shrestha.- 11. Global Girl Policy and the Girl Effect: Gendered Origins and Silences; Karen Brown.- Section 3: Recognizing Children and Youth as Agents.- 12. Is It Okay to Critique Youth Activists?: Notes on the Power and Danger of Complexity; Jessica K. Taft.- 13. Re/writing Gendered Scripts: A Longitudinal Research Partnership Reshaping Gender and Education Policy and Praxis in Zanzibar, Tanzania; Emily Markovich Morris.- 14. Generational Power in Research with Children: Reflections on Risk and ‘Voice’; Anna Bolgrien, Deborah Levison, and Frances Vavrus.- 15. Youth Circulations: Tracing the Real and Imagined Circulations of Global Youth; Lauren Heidbrink and Michele Statz.