ABSTRACT

In this viewpoint, I argue for greater engagement between children’s geographies and decolonial scholarship. I suggest that decolonial scholarship, by emphasizing the role that knowledge plays in justifying and perpetuating inequalities, offers a way to bring analyses of childhoods in the Global North into conversation with analyses of childhoods in the Global South. Instead of positioning southern childhoods as the ‘other’ in relation to global childhoods, decolonial approaches reveal how colonial legacies continue to shape the governance of children in a diverse range of spaces. Further, decolonial scholarship’s focus on praxis offers possible avenues forward in ongoing debates about children’s agency and research approaches. I conclude by considering how my own work with children in Baltimore could benefit from the decolonial scholarship.

摘要

从这个角度来看，我主张儿童地理学和非殖民主义学术之间有更多的接触。我认为，非殖民主义学术通过强调知识在证明和延续不平等方面所发挥的作用，提供了一种方法，将对全球北方儿童的分析与对全球南方儿童的分析进行对话。非殖民性方法并没有将南方童年定位为与全球童年相关的“他者”，而是揭示了殖民遗产如何继续塑造不同空间中的儿童治理。此外，非殖民性学术对实践的关注为正在进行的关于儿童能动性和研究方法的辩论提供了可能的途径。最后，我考虑了我自己在巴尔的摩的儿童工作如何从非殖民奖学金中受益。