%0 Journal Article
%T The Politics of Young Children through the ¡®Epistemologies of the South¡¯
%A Vinnarasan Aruldoss
%J -
%D 2019
%R https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci8050151
%X Abstract Drawing data from an ethnographic study conducted in an early-years setting in Chennai, India, where everyday politics is couched in material and relational practices, the paper ruminates on the idea of ¡¯children as subjects¡¯ in relation to politics and public life. By using the framework of ¡®epistemologies of the south¡¯, the analysis illustrates how a focus on ¡®global cognitive justice¡¯ might enable us to understand the politics of life in the global south differently from Western critical theory. The paper further deliberates on how such a ¡®decolonial imagination¡¯ would help us to reframe Eurocentric liberalist thinking and its conceptualisations of childhood and the political, practiced in a zone of messy social reality. In so doing, the paper tries to unpack ¡®the political¡¯ through paying particular attention to different ways of being, knowing, and doing children¡¯s politics, and the subaltern practices of generational relations in subject making
%K childhood
%K politics
%K epistemology
%K subjectivity
%K India
%U https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0760/8/5/151