Risking erasure? Posthumanist research practices and figurations of (the) child

Abstract

shared motivation for this special issue in response to the apparent explosion in posthumanist childhood studies in recent years; the deep scepticism and distrust it generates in certain and, crucially, our concern with detectable formulas that have in enact the complex dilute its philosophical underpinnings. special to slow down and pause, to re-turn to philosophical potential of posthumanism to transform the questions and open-ended enquiries