Aim: Nation and childhood, and how nationhood is learned, practiced, understood, related to, invented and reinvented in everyday life by young children is explored in a comparative manner.
Lectures (videos):
Childhood and Nation in Everyday Life
Practicing refusal of extremist public discourses
Childhood and Nation (How an attention to childhood can inform Nationalism Studies)
Collaborative partners: Annika Åkerblom, Alex Knoll, Lucy Hopkins, Nelli Piattoeva, Sirpa Lappalainen Signe Hvid Thingstrup, Nisha Thapliyal, Katarzyna Gawlicz, Katarina Gustafson Danielle Ekman Ladru, Iveta.Silova, Hanna Sjögren, Tünde Puskas, Kerstin von-Bromssen, Camilla Eline Andersen, Anne Harju, Hassan Sharif, Wiji Bohme Shomary, Neumann Eszter, Róbert Imre, Michalinos Zembylas
New publications:
Nordic early childhood education policies and virulent nationalist trends
Nation and Childhood: Oxford Bibliographies
Teaching nature and nation in the Swedish mobile preschool
Banal and Everyday Nationalisms in children’s mundane and institutional lives