Bringing together new perspectives in childhood studies and animal
studies, this book is the first collection to critically address
the manifold alignments and frequent co-constitutions of children
and pets in our families, our cultures, and our societies. The
cultural politics of power shaping relationships between children,
pets, and adults inform the wide range of essays included in this
collection, as they explore issues such as protection, discipline,
mastery, wildness, play, and domestication. The volume use the
frequent social and cultural intersections between children and
pets as an opportunity to analyze institutions that create pet and
child subjectivity, from education and training to putting children
and pets on display for entertainment purposes. Essays analyze
legal discourses, visual culture, literature for children and
adults, migration narratives, magazines for children, music, and
language socialization to discuss how notions of nationalism, race,
gender, heteronormativity, and speciesism shape cultural
constructions of children and pets. Examining childhood and pethood
in America, Europe, Asia, and the Pacific, this collection shows
how discourses linking children and pets are pervasive and work
across cultures. By presenting innovative approaches to the child
and the pet, the book brings to light alternative paths toward
understanding these figures, leading to new openings and questions
about kinship, agency, and the power of care that so often shapes
our relationships with children and animals. This will be an
important volume for scholars of animal studies, childhood studies,
children's literature, cultural studies, political theory,
education, art history, and sociology.
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