In:Geopolitics and Activism in Children’s and Young Adult Literature
Edited by Giuliana Fenech and Justyna Deszcz-Tryhubczak
[Children’s Literature, Culture, and Cognition 18] 2026
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Table of contents
Acknowledgements
List of figures
Introduction: Children’s and young adult literature, agency, and geopolitics
Justyna Deszcz-Tryhubczak
Giuliana Fenech
Part 1.Child, community, and nationhood
Chapter 1.Children of revolutions and war: Citizenship and agency in Ukrainian post-2014 children’s and young
adult literature
Mateusz Świetlicki
Chapter 2.The small girl who lives next door: Child language activism in New Zealand
Nicola Daly
Chapter 3.Children’s agency in/through Canadian children’s literature
Jennifer Duggan
Amanda Fayant
Part 2.The politicization of childhood
Chapter 4.The hero called a pioneer: Constructing socialist citizens in Yugoslavia
Svetlana Kalezić Radonjić
Chapter 5.Questions of identity and belonging
in Palestinian children’s literature
in Palestinian children’s literature
Hanan Mousa
Chapter 6.Negotiating space through playful resistance: Vignettes of Muslim girlhoods in Pakistani and Iranian
narratives
Tehmina Pirzada
Chapter 7.The imaginary citizens, the trickster, and the mighty child: Anti-corruption children’s stories from Indonesia
Herdiana Hakim
Part 3.The call to action
Chapter 8.Reclaiming children’s narratives: Children writing for children in contemporary India
Ritwika Roy
Chapter 9.Ecoliteracy on the Nile: Egyptian picturebooks on protecting the Nile river
Yasmine Motawy
Chapter 10.Young adult voices against homophobia in Russia: Same-sex parenting in the coming-of-age novel The Days of Our
Lives by Mikita Franko
Iana Nikitenko
Chapter 11.Relational agency and geopolitics in life writing by William Kamwamba,
Xiuhtezcatl Martinez, and Greta Thunberg
Kebere Maldaye
Part 4.Care-full geopolitics in children’s and young adult literature
Chapter 12.Empowering teachers and readers: Comparative understanding of social justice issues through inclusive
youth literature in Germany and the UK
Farriba Schulz
Melanie Ramdarshan Bold
Maureen Maisha Auma
Chapter 13.Epistemic injustices in teaching and research practices
with children’s literature
with children’s literature
Macarena García-González
About the editors and contributors
Index
