Knowledge of childhood: materiality, text, and the history of science – an interdisciplinary round table discussion.

Autor/inn/en	RIETMANN, FELIX; SCHILDMANN, MAREIKE; ARNI, CAROLINE; COOK, DANIEL THOMAS; GIURIATO, DAVIDE; GÖHLSDORF, NOVINA; MUIGAI, WANGUI
Titel	Knowledge of childhood: materiality, text, and the history of science – an interdisciplinary round table discussion.
Quelle	In: The British journal for the history of science, (2017) 1, S.1-31 PDF als Volltext (1); PDF als Volltext (2) Verfügbarkeit
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0007-0874
DOI	10.1017/S000708741700005X
Schlagwörter	History; Science; Knowledge; Children & youth
Abstract	This round table discussion takes the diversity of discourse and practice shaping modern knowledge about childhood as an opportunity to engage with recent historiographical approaches in the history of science. It draws attention to symmetries and references among scientific, material, literary and artistic cultures and their respective forms of knowledge. The five participating scholars come from various fields in the humanities and social sciences and allude to historiographical and methodological questions through a range of examples. Topics include the emergence of children's rooms in US consumer magazines, research on the unborn in nineteenth-century sciences of development, the framing of autism in nascent child psychiatry, German literary discourses about the child's initiation into writing, and the sociopolitics of racial identity in the photographic depiction of African American infant corpses in the early twentieth century. Throughout the course of the paper, childhood emerges as a topic particularly amenable to interdisciplinary perspectives that take the history of science as part of a broader history of knowledge.
Erfasst von	OLC
Update	2023/2/05