Exploring possibilities for gender to become otherwise: what do child-snail relations make possible?
Book chapter
Osgood, J. 2024. Exploring possibilities for gender to become otherwise: what do child-snail relations make possible? in: Gannon, S., Pasley, A. and Osgood, J. (ed.) Gender Un/bound: Traversing Educational Possibilities Routledge.
Chapter title | Exploring possibilities for gender to become otherwise: what do child-snail relations make possible? |
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Authors | Osgood, J. |
Abstract | Through a series of tentacular provocations this chapter contemplates how gender might be reimagined from child-snail relationalities. Further, it invites attunement to how else gender coalesces through a young child’s non-verbal, not-quite-literate, bodily encounters with the everyday. Whilst dominant ideas about how children are and become in the world tend to be framed by linear, anthropocentric logic characterised by certainty and knowability, how might odd-kin relationalities (Haraway, 2016) complicate such logic and open possibilities for gender to e/merge in surprising ways? Tracing the slime trails of a four-year-old child’s encounters with snails, this chapter wonders whether making-odd-kin might hold the potential to dwell upon often unnoticed and unappreciated capacities for deep immersion in now-time, and with that a persistent refusal to be contained and bound by normative ideas about what it is to be(come) gendered. Making odd-kin refuses the limits, codifications and meanings about gender and childhood that are imposed by adults on the developing child bodymind. Ultimately, with the help of Haraway’s SF praxis, this chapter explores the capacious possibilities inherent in being open to un/re-learning how to be in the world – always in relation. |
Keywords | gender; early childhood; arts-based research; posthumanism; environmental education |
Sustainable Development Goals | 10 Reduced inequalities |
11 Sustainable cities and communities | |
13 Climate action | |
16 Peace, justice and strong institutions | |
3 Good health and well-being | |
4 Quality education | |
5 Gender equality | |
Middlesex University Theme | Sustainability |
Health & Wellbeing | |
Creativity, Culture & Enterprise | |
Research Group | Centre for Education Research and Scholarship (CERS) |
Book title | Gender Un/bound: Traversing Educational Possibilities |
Editors | Gannon, S., Pasley, A. and Osgood, J. |
Publisher | Routledge |
ISBN | |
Hardcover | 9781032713656 |
Paperback | 9781032715520 |
Copyright Year | 2025 |
Publication dates | |
02 Dec 2024 | |
Publication process dates | |
Accepted | 22 May 2024 |
Deposited | 23 May 2024 |
Output status | Accepted |
Accepted author manuscript | License File Access Level Open |
Copyright Statement | This is an Accepted Manuscript of a book chapter published by Routledge/CRC Press in Gender Un/Bound |
Related Output | |
Is part of | https://www.routledge.com/9781032713656 |
Language | English |
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