Macarena García-González

List of John Benjamins publications in which Macarena García-González is involved.

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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

Articles

García-González, Macarena 2026 Chapter 13. Epistemic injustices in teaching and research practices with children’s literature Geopolitics and Activism in Children’s and Young Adult Literature, Fenech, Giuliana and Justyna Deszcz-Tryhubczak (eds.), pp. 211–223 | Chapter

This chapter explores epistemic injustices in the field of children’s literature research and its teaching practices in higher education. It argues that children’s ways of knowing are systematically marginalized in academic settings due to adultist and Eurocentric knowledge structures. The… read more

Deszcz-Tryhubczak, Justyna and Macarena García-González 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