Justyna Deszcz-Tryhubczak
List of John Benjamins publications in which Justyna Deszcz-Tryhubczak is involved.
Titles
Children's Cultures after Childhood
Edited by Justyna Deszcz-Tryhubczak and Macarena García-González
Children’s Cultures after Childhood introduces theoretical concepts from new materialist and posthumanist childhood studies into research on children’s literature, film, and media texts with attention to the entanglements of which they are part. Thirteen chapters by international contributors from… read more2026 Introduction: Children’s and young adult literature, agency, and geopolitics Geopolitics and Activism in Children’s and Young Adult Literature, Fenech, Giuliana and Justyna Deszcz-Tryhubczak (eds.), pp. 1–14 | Chapter
This introductory chapter offers an overview of current concepts and research approaches relevant to young people’s negotiations of their geopolitical contexts, including their embodied, located, and grounded experiences. Moreover, highlighting the connections between national and transcultural,… read more
2023 Chapter 8. Research with children, weeds, and a book: An after-childhood perspective Children's Cultures after Childhood, Deszcz-Tryhubczak, Justyna and Macarena García-González (eds.), pp. 122–136 | Chapter
In this chapter, Justyna Deszcz-Tryhubczak looks back at an encounter with weeds, a seemingly unimportant moment in a child-led research project that has nevertheless continued to arrest her attention long after the completion of her collaboration with the children. She uses the concept of after… read more
2023 Chapter 1. Ethics, epistemologies, and relational ontologies in researching children’s cultures Children's Cultures after Childhood, Deszcz-Tryhubczak, Justyna and Macarena García-González (eds.), pp. 1–17 | Chapter
This chapter argues for a new materialist and posthumanist understanding of children’s cultures as formed by naturalcultural assemblages destabilizing anthropocentric notions of childhood, adulthood, agency, age, creativity, and text. The chapter provides an overview of recent developments in… read more
2018 Chapter 1. Reading and digital media: European perspectives Learning to Read in a Digital World, Barzillai, Mirit, Jenny Thomson, Sascha Schroeder and Paul van den Broek (eds.), pp. 1–30 | Chapter
The on-going discussion between parents, educators, politicians and academics on the consequences of screen reading as compared to reading from paper is filled with controversy. This chapter aims at providing a factual context for these debates. We first focus on early studies concerning children’s… read more


