Chapters
Child-snail relations
Through a series of tentacular provocations this chapter contemplates how gender might be reimagined from child-snail relationalities. Further, it invites attunement to how else gender coalesces through a young child's non-verbal, not-quite-literate, bodily encounters with the everyday.
Playing in the Undercommons
This chapter proposes that playful approaches in childhood research can operate as subversive acts of refusal. Insights from a current research project are presented within the broader context of contemporary schooling which is shaped by intensified regulation of young child body-minds in the name of developmental progress.
Scrabbling Talk
A video talk: Down the Back of a Chair – What does a method of scrabbling with Le Guin’s ‘Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction’ offer conceptualisations of ‘the child’ in the Anthropocene?
Session 3: Making Odd Kin: Arachnean ethics in early childhood education through the arts Saturday,
May 23, 2026