Unapologetically Dramatic About Injustices: Anthro-Performances of Minoritized Children/Childhoods

Session Type: Demonstration/Performance

Abstract

The unifying theme of our panel of presentations-performances is that each of us has been inspired by Faye Harrison (1990) and later Soyini Madison’s (2011) calls for being unapologetically dramatic by taking up “anthro-performances” that dismantle “Big Daddy” research and delegitimize “voices from nowhere.” Attending to these calls, we collectively draw on feminist, queer, disability studies, deaf studies, translanguaging, and new materialist/post-humanist theories applied to research on deaf students in France, queer children in rural Appalachia, suburban American pubescent/menstruating tweens, and multilingual immigrant children in Turkey. Collectively, our presentations-performances aim to offer examples of research that expands beyond scientific-rationalist fixations on realism and representation to explore potentializing practices of performances and the performed as an ethico-aesthetics of relating with Other(s).

Sub Unit

• SIG-Critical Perspectives on Early Childhood Education

Chair

• Joseph M. Valente, Pennsylvania State University

Papers

• Flipping the Narrative: Queering in Rural Appalachia—Stories of Strength, Support, and Change - Boni Richardson, Pennsylvania State University

• Everyone Here Speaks Sign Language: An Animated Linguistic Ethnographic Film of École Gabriel Sajus - Joseph M. Valente, Pennsylvania State University

• Turning Red and Rescripting Girlhoods: Troubling the Twofold Taboos of Sexuality and Puberty - Julie Snyder, Pennsylvania State University

• An Ethnographic and Sociolinguistic Study of Multilingual Immigrant Children - Özge Ergin, Pennsylvania State University