1st Edition

Performing Contemporary Childhoods Being and Becoming a Viral Child

By Bryoni Trezise Copyright 2024
180 Pages 12 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

180 Pages 12 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

180 Pages 12 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Performing Contemporary Childhoods: Being and Becoming a Viral Child examines the changing nature of contemporary childhoods by exploring how children’s and young people’s digital media create new ideas about youth agency. Visual cultures of childhood have been traditionally traced in photography. Material cultures of childhood have been likewise traced in archives, scripts and even toys.... Read more

List of figures

Acknowledgements

1 Performing the child in-formation

2 Minor visions: Staging the child in future tens

3 Minor moves: Embodying the truncated times of girled childhood

4 Minor texts: Tweeting the child in the time of her making

5 Minor affects: Voicing the child who recrafts the future

6 Minor spaces: Apprehending childhood’s ghostly times

Bibliography

Index

Biography

Bryoni Trezise is Senior Lecturer in Theatre and Performance Studies at the University of New South Wales. Her major publications develop interdisciplinary conversations between performance aesthetics, pedagogies and cultures and have been published in books and journals including Performance Research, Research in Drama Education and Convergence. Bryoni’s research won the 2019 Essay Prize in Forum for Modern Languages and the 2013 Marlis Thiersch Award for excellence in scholarship. In 2021, Bryoni was awarded the Children’s Book Council Australia Charlotte Waring Barton Award for her unpublished middle-grade novel.