Justyna Deszcz-Tryhubczak

List of John Benjamins publications in which Justyna Deszcz-Tryhubczak is involved.

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Geopolitics and Activism in Children’s and Young Adult Literature

Edited by Giuliana Fenech and Justyna Deszcz-Tryhubczak

This volume explores how literature for young readers shapes and is informed by the geopolitical realities of our world. Bringing together perspectives from across the globe, the volume shows how children’s and YA texts foster young people’s agency by engaging with national identity, conflict,… read more
[Children’s Literature, Culture, and Cognition, 18] 2026. ix, 229 pp. + index | Open Access logo open access
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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 more
[Children’s Literature, Culture, and Cognition, 16] 2023. x, 220 pp. | Open Access logo open access
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Deszcz-Tryhubczak, Justyna and Giuliana Fenech 2026 Introduction: Children’s and young adult literature, agency, and geopoliticsGeopolitics 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
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Deszcz-Tryhubczak, Justyna 2023 Chapter 8. Research with children, weeds, and a book: An after-childhood perspectiveChildren'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
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Deszcz-Tryhubczak, Justyna and Macarena García-González 2023 Chapter 1. Ethics, epistemologies, and relational ontologies in researching children’s culturesChildren'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
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Deszcz-Tryhubczak, Justyna and Frank Huysmans 2018 Chapter 1. Reading and digital media: European perspectivesLearning 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
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