Creative Research on Gender and Sexuality with Children and Young People Making Methods Matter

List of Contributors

1. How creative methods matter in gender and sexuality research with children and young people

EJ Renold, Tuija Huuki, Suvi Pihkala and Carol Taylor

Part I: Making-Trouble : creatively attuning to the difficulty, dangers and diversity of how gender and sexuality come to matter

Suvi Pihkala

1. Collaging LGBTQ+ lives across religious and cultural difference
   Anna Hickey-Moody, Alexandra Ciaffaglione, James Gardiner, Margaret Lovell, Alphia Possamai-Inesedy, Joel Windle and Katherine Johnson
2. Using mapping and slam books to excavate queer articulations amongst young people
   Sandra J. Schmidt
3. Working within the methodological affordances of gaming playscapes for researching gender and sexuality in children’s worlds

Mark Vicars, Amanda Muscat and Janine Arantes

1. Poster-making as potential: girls and the sexual violence assemblage in a rural community in South Africa
   Raksha Janak and Deevia Bhana
2. Feminist and decolonial methodological reflections on vulnerability within arts-based research with young women in Chile and Nigeria
   Ayomide Oluseye and Elise Denis-Ramirez
3. The trans art of failure: stuttering with secondary students’ spacetimegenderings
   Ampersand Pasley
   
   

Part II: Making-with: co-creating how gender and sexuality matters with children and young people in schools, community groups and museums

Carol A Taylor

1. Glitching gendered childhoods through digital-embodied animations

Suvi Pihkala and Tuija Huuki

1. Exploring gender and sexuality in botany collections and beyond

Kate Marston

1. Rainbow playgrounds: using the visual arts to attune to the experiences of LGBTQ+ neurodiverse young people

Gabrielle Ivinson

1. Animating genders, sexualities and schooling through making (with) darta

Susanne Gannon and Prue Adams

1. Participatory production in research with young migrants: intimacy, care and social affordances

Chris High, Åsa Trulsson and Anna Baral

Part III: Making-praxis: transforming how gender and sexuality research matters in public, practice and policy

Tuija Huuki                                                       

1. Clothes racks and Giant story tables: making the materiality of methods matter for gender expansive practice

Lizzie Maughan

1. Ruler-skirts, Rights-kites and Rainbow Ribbons: making gender equality matter with pre-teens in arts-activist research and practice

EJ Renold

1. PhEminist skins and decolonial becomings: towards a care-ful, creative methodology of hope

Clare Stanhope

1. Mapping praxis within the Zine-ic: navigating co-creation of sexuality education materials with young people in Aruba

Elizabeth Ascroft

Part IV: Making the more-than: becoming artful with what else gender and sexuality research can become

EJ Renold

1. Straight, white, male: un/knotting and un/labelling masculinity with arts-based methods

Huw Berry-Downs

1. Neuroqueering as a proposition for sound methods: contextualising a music composition research-creation study in a neurodiverse early childhood education classroom

David Ben Shannon

1. Walking the gendered and racialised experiences of living in overcrowded households

Shiva Zarabadi

1. Colourism and Indian girlhoods: prisms, portraiture and the diffractive potential of arts-based research

Sweta Rajan-Rankin

1. Indigenous Sámi kelohonka mythodologies of becoming arctic girl-self

Tuija Huuki

1. Camille 1^5: Sexuality Education at the End of The World

Vanessa Cameron-Lewis

Index

Biography

EJ Renold is Professor of Childhood Studies at the School of Education, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK.

Tuija Huuki is Professor of Youth Research at the Faculty of Education and Psychology, University of Oulu, Finland

Suvi Pihkala is researcher and University lecturer in Gender Studies at the Faculty of Education and Psychology, University of Oulu, Finland.

Carol A. Taylor is Professor of Higher Education and Gender in the Department of Education, University of Bath, UK.

"In a moment of regressive gender and sexual politics, this book is an invitation to hope. It innovatively constitutes the first collection of creative methods on gender and sexuality in childhood and youth studies. Through creative methodologies embracing the human-non-human, the scholarship in this collection art-fully makes space for worlds otherwise."

Professor Louisa Allen, Faculty of Arts and Education, University of Auckland

 

"Taking seriously ways to ‘make gender and sexuality matter’ is at the very heart of this book. This vital contribution fills a void for feminist researchers seeking to bring theory and creative practice together. The authors offer a hopeful praxis, making felt the tangible differences that can come about through research-creation with young people as they navigate the complexities of gender and sexualities in times of poly crises. It will become the ‘go-to’ book for researchers committed to - deeply political and ethical - ways to engage in world-making practices that matter."

 Professor Jayne Osgood, Centre for Education Research & Scholarship, Middlesex University, UK

"In this urgently relevant text, the politics and potential of creative research methodologies expand how research on gender and sexuality  might be creatively imagined. Drawing on co-constructed, co-creative and participatory methods with children and young people this transdisciplinary volume approaches research with nuance and complexity, contributing unique research methodologies to its many relevant fields."

Dr Asilia Franklin-Phipps, Professor of Educational Studies with an affiliate appointment in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Assistant Professor at SUNY New Paltz, Department of Teaching and Learning