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While intersectionality is burgeoning in much scholarship, few childhood researchers employ it. This chapter considers ways in which intersectionality can contribute to research understandings of childhood and children’s lives. It argues that intersectionality enables a holistic perspective on children’s lives, facilitating analysis of how they are positioned and treated, the ways in which their multiple social positioning is (re)produced and how they negotiate this. The paper considers how bringing together theorisations of intersectionality, racialisation, subjectification and interpellation helps to illuminate how global histories and dynamics are always part of children’s everyday positioning.
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Phoenix, A. (2022). Intersectionality, Childhood and its Global Dynamics. In: Bak, R., Machold, C. (eds) Kindheit und Kindheitsforschung intersektional denken. Kinder, Kindheiten und Kindheitsforschung, vol 26. Springer VS, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-36760-2_2
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