Matkaopas lapsuuden historian tutkimukseen:monitieteisiä näkökulmia ja menetelmiä

Abstract A Guide to Studying the History of Childhood: Multidisciplinary Perspectives and Methods This edited volume is a handbook of research methodologies for the history of childhood. The history of childhood is a vibrant, multidisciplinary field that incorporates a rich variety of methodological approaches developed in disciplines across the social sciences and humanities, including archaeology, education, ethnology, literature, and history. The volume presents a collection of chapters that engage a range of different research traditions and employ different research material, conceptual tools, and methods of analysis for the historical study of childhood. In doing so, the volume attends to issues specific to the study of children and childhood, such as those related to research ethics and the theoretical complexities of defining ‘the child’ and ‘childhood’. While the central focus is on the history of childhood in Finland, the volume also includes international and transnational cases, contexts, and perspectives.Sisällys Monitieteinen lapsuuden historia Kaisa Vehkalahti, Essi Jouhki, Sanna Lipkin, Johanna Sitomaniemi-San & Tiina Kuokkanen I Tutkimustraditioiden risteyksessä Lapsuuden löytämisestä toimijuuden tutkimukseen: Lapsuuden historian kuusi vuosikymmentä Kaisa Vehkalahti Historiallisen ajan lapsuuden arkeologiaa: Lapset, tunteet ja kuolema Sanna Lipkin II Eletyn elämän muistot Lapsuuden rajoilla: Lapsuusmuistot omaelämäkerrallisessa kirjoittamisessa Essi Jouhki Kerrostuneet tulkinnat: Vaikeat lapsuusmuistot muistitietohaastattelussa Eerika Koskinen-Koivisto & Kirsi-Maria Hytönen Kollektiivinen biografia: Lähestymistapa kylmän sodan lapsuuksien tutkimiseen Mnemo ZIN III Materiaalisuus ja ruumiillisuus Maalaiskylä oppimisen ympäristönä ja kohteena: Uusmaterialismi näkökulmana lasten oppimisen elettyyn historiaan Antti Malinen Visuaaliset menetelmät historiatietoisuuden tutkimuksen välineinä Helena Ristaniemi Varhaismoderni imetysongelma: Luonnontieteet humanistin palveluksessa Tiina Väre IV Kulttuuriset katseet Toimijuus ja kokemus lapsuuden historiassa: Hieronymus, kokemusyhteisöt ja tutkijan katse Ville Vuolanto Kolonialistinen diskurssi ja rodullistaminen vanhassa suomalaisessa lastenkirjallisuudessa: Metodologisia pohdintoja Raita Merivirta Konteksti, genealogia, tunne: Elokuvallisia katseita tyttöyteen ja tyttöyden historiaan Heta Mulari Hauraat subjektit: Lapsuuden rakentuminen 1800-luvun suomalaisessa tieteessä ja kirjallisuudessa Kati Launis, Jutta Ahlbeck, Päivi Lappalainen & Kirsi Tuohela V Asiantuntijatiedon kentät Paluumuuttajalapset 1940–1950-luvun Suomessa: Metodologisia reittejä lapsuuden historiaan Tuomas Laine-Frigren Normaalin ja epänormaalin rajapinnoilla: Lapsuuden kategorioiden historiallisesta analyysista Laura Tiitinen & Timo Harrikari Olemassaolemattomuus ja hajanaisuus: Metodologisia pohdintoja uteliaan lapsen genealogiasta Johanna Sitomaniemi-San Kriittisen historianfilosofian näkökulmia lapsuuden historioihin Juuso Tervo Kirjoittajat Abstract Asiahakemisto Henkilöhakemist

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