Introduction : children’s and young adult literature, agency, and geopolitics

Abstract

This introductory chapter offers an overview of current concepts and research approaches relevant to young people’s negotiations of their geopolitical contexts, including their embodied, located, and grounded experiences. Moreover, highlighting the connections between national and transcultural, transnational, and global studies, as well as activism and citizenship, it suggests the relevance of children’s and young adult literature to geopolitical situatedness as framing children’s agency through its socializing, decolonizing, and educating potentials. Finally, it provides an overview of the chapters in the volume and outlines further areas of study at the intersections of children’s and young adult literature scholarship and the field of geopolitics.