Making “Cuts” with a Holstein Cow in Early Childhood Education and Care: The Joys of Representation

This article explores children’s play with representations of animals, specifically the Holstein cow, as noninnocent care practices in the context of early childhood education and care environments. We use Barad’s relational ontology and Chaudhuri’s concept of zooësis to activate a temporal diffract...

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Published in:Canadian children 2020-07, Vol.45 (2), p.53-66
Main Authors: Aslanian, Teresa K., Rigmor Moxnes, Anna
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Animals
Child development
Early childhood education
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Summary:This article explores children’s play with representations of animals, specifically the Holstein cow, as noninnocent care practices in the context of early childhood education and care environments. We use Barad’s relational ontology and Chaudhuri’s concept of zooësis to activate a temporal diffractive analysis of memory stories about children’s play with cows in ECEC read through facts from past, present, and future livestock-rearing practices. We connect the joy of playing with representations of nonhuman animals to the responsibility associated with multispecies lives, and to care as the production of flourishing.
ISSN:2371-4107
2371-4115
DOI:10.18357/jcs452202019739