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Vol. 69 No. 1 (2025): Sociology of children and childhood

Articles and essays

The peculiarity of childhood: At the intersection of queer perspective and childhood studies

DOI: https://doi.org/10.35757/KiS.2025.69.1.4
Submitted: July 8, 2024
Published: March 21, 2025

Abstract

The article examines the conceptual space at the intersection between queer perspective and childhood studies, increasingly referred to as queer childhood studies. The text introduces two key approaches to understanding the child and childhood within the field of queer studies. It also outlines the two main planes of examining the queerness of childhood experiences and the child’s status, before proceeding to suggest exploring categories formative for the social discourse of childhood — such as development, innocence, and agency — through the lens of queerness. This highlights not only how these categories are entangled in sustaining the heteronormative social order, but also the value of incorporating queer childhood experiences and identities in order to provide a comprehensive and nuanced understanding of modern childhood.

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