The History of Pandemics/Epidemic in Childhood
A special issue of Genealogy (ISSN 2313-5778). This special issue belongs to the section "Family History".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 September 2021) | Viewed by 526
Special Issue Editors
Interests: discourses and histories of childhood; education and play; children’s digital literacies; storytelling and creativity in co-constructed play
Interests: psychological wellbeing in childhood, adolescence, families and education psychology; sociology and social policy relating to children; young people, families and education; the history of childhood
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Genealogy is now accepting submissions for a Special Issue on the theme “The History of Pandemic/Epidemic in Childhood.” The global COVID-19 pandemic has impacted the lives of children across the world, affecting their schooling, play, language, and peer cultures. Governmental and societal responses to the pandemic have shaped new constraints and possibilities for childhood as a space within wider generational structures, located within nested local and global cultural contexts. This Special Issue recognizes that pandemics and localized epidemics are recurring features of human history, and thus of the history of childhood. We invite essays from scholars who are drawing on genealogy theoretically and methodologically to examine the history of pandemics and epidemics from the experiences and perspectives of the child, across time and space.
Some of the topics that would be appropriate for this Special Issue include but are not limited to genealogies of:
- How children experience pandemics/epidemics across various contexts relevant to the child, such as the home, the school, youth organizations, and wider community locations.
- How pandemic/endemic themes came to be reflected in children’s play and leisure.
- How pandemic/endemic themes came to be reflected in their language, customs, and in folklore.
- The impact of these pandemic/epidemic experiences on the construction of the child and of childhood in relation to concepts such as vulnerability, care, health, dependence, independence/interdependence, and agency.
Dr. Yinka Olusoga
Dr. Pam Jarvis
Guest Editors
Manuscript Submission Information
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Keywords
- pandemic
- endemic
- pandemic play
- pandemic folklore
