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Hearing children’s voices: conceptual and methodological challenges
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Musgrove, N and Pascoe Leahy, C and Moruzi, K, Hearing children's voices: conceptual and methodological challenges, Children's Voices from the Past, Palgrave Macmillan, K Moruzi, N Musgrove and C Pascoe Leahy (ed), Cham, Switzerland, pp. 1-25. ISBN 9783030118952 (2019) [Research Book Chapter]
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DOI: doi:10.1007/978-3-030-11896-9
Abstract
This chapter analyses changing approaches to "hearing children’s voices" within the historiography of childhood, including interdisciplinary connections with anthropology, archaeology, geography, psychology and sociology. It examines theoretical shifts, such as the challenges poststructuralism posed to concepts of "experience" and "truth," the ways in which the resulting focus on discourse threatened to obscure any possibility of uncovering children’s voices, and the consequent resurgence of survivor narratives revealing a range of institutional abuses suffered by children. The chapter argues that the rise of age as a category of analysis has intersected with other shifts within history, including investigations of gender, memory, space, mobility, emotion, religion, colonialism and transnationalism. Finally, the chapter considers the challenges of different sources, including institutional records, interviews, artwork, diaries, letters, memoirs and objects.
Item Details
Item Type: | Research Book Chapter |
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Keywords: | history, childhood, voice |
Research Division: | History, Heritage and Archaeology |
Research Group: | Historical studies |
Research Field: | Australian history |
Objective Division: | Expanding Knowledge |
Objective Group: | Expanding knowledge |
Objective Field: | Expanding knowledge in history, heritage and archaeology |
UTAS Author: | Pascoe Leahy, C (Dr Carla Pascoe Leahy) |
ID Code: | 148727 |
Year Published: | 2019 |
Deposited By: | History and Classics |
Deposited On: | 2022-02-04 |
Last Modified: | 2022-07-28 |
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