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Books
A History of Childhood in the United States. Boston: Beacon Press (Forthcoming 2027).
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Articles
“Toward an Unadulterated Democracy: Short-Termism and the Crisis of Accountability within Generational Apartheid,” Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, 2026.
“Confronting Adultcentrism: Childist and decolonial interventions in educational philosophies and institutions,” Philosophy of Childhood 20, with Tanu Biswas, 2025.
“Childism and Philosophy: A Conceptual Coexploration,” Policy Futures in Education 22(5), 2024, with John Wall, Hanne Warming, Ohad Zehavi, David Kennedy, Karin Murris, Walter Kohan, and Britta Saal.
“‘The First Mark of Pain’: Toward a child-centered methodological reorientation of social theory, race, and corporal punishment in American life,” Sociology Compass 15(12), 2021, with Stacey Patton and Tommy Curry.
“Babies and Boomers: Intergenerational Democracy and the Political Epidemiology of COVID-19,” Democratic Theory 7(2): 75-81, 2020.
“Democratic Silence: Two Forms of Domination in the Social Contract Tradition,” Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy. Online First: July 23, 2020.
“Two Political Ontologies and Three Models of Silence: Voice, Signal, and Action,” Critical Exchange: The Nature of Silence and Its Democratic Possibilities, in Contemporary Political Theory 18(3): 424-447, 2019.
“Imperious Temptations: Democratic Legitimacy and Indigenous Consent in Canada,” Canadian Journal of Political Science 52(1): 1-19, 2018.
“Feral Children: Settler Colonialism, Progress and the Figure of the Child,” Settler Colonial Studies 8(1): 60-79, 2018.
“The Color of Childhood: The Role of the Child/Human Binary in the Production of Antiblack Racism,” Journal of Black Studies 49(4): 307-329, 2018.
“Back to the Rough Ground: Textual, Oral and Enactive Meaning in Comparative Political Theory,” European Journal of Political Theory. Online first, August 23, 2018.
“Everyday Deeds: Enactive Protest, Exit, and Silence in Deliberative Systems,” Political Theory 45(5): 587-609, 2017.
“Love and Hate: The Centre and Periphery of Whiteness.” Contribution to ‘Beyond Electoralism: Reflections on Anarchy, Populism, and the Crisis of Electoral Politics’. In ACME: An International Journal for Critical Geographies 16(4): 618-621, 2017.
“Mandates of the State: Canadian Sovereignty, Democracy, and Indigenous Claims,” Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence 27(1): 225-238, 2014.
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Book Chapters
“Democracy and Developmentalism: The Logics of Child Exclusion.” 2023. In Handbook of Theories in Childhood Studies, edited by S. Balagopalan, J. Wall, and K. Wells. London: Bloomsbury.
“Beyond Curricula: Colonial Pedagogies in Public Schooling.” 2022. In Troubling Truth and Reconciliation in Canadian Education: Critical Perspectives, edited by Arlo Kempf and Sandra Styles. Edmonton: University of Alberta Press.
“Women and Children First! The Ideal of Co-Emancipation in Feminist and LGBTQ Critique.” 2020. In Turbulent Times, Transformational Possibilities? Gender and Politics Today and Tomorrow, edited by Fiona MacDonald and Alexandra Dobrowolsky, 199–220. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
“Democratic Child’s Play: Natality, Responsible Education, and Decolonial Praxis.” 2020. In Thinking, Childhood, and Time: Contemporary Perspectives on the Politics of Education, edited by Walter Omar Kohan and Barbara Weber, 145–160. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield.
“Critical Pedagogies and Democratic Praxis.” 2020. With Cynthia McDermott, Richard Khan, and Fred Chapel. In The SAGE International Handbook of Critical Pedagogies, edited by Shirley Steinberg, Barry Down, and Dara Nix-Stevenson. London: SAGE.
“Childhood and Modernity.” 2020. In The SAGE Handbook of Children and Childhood, edited by Daniel Thomas Cook and Erica Burman. London: SAGE.
“Children as Other/Stranger.” 2020. In The SAGE Handbook of Children and Childhood, edited by Daniel Thomas Cook and Erica Burman. London: SAGE.
“Settler Colonialism and the Consolidation of Canada in the Twentieth Century.” 2016. With Adam Barker and Emma Battell Lowman. In The Routledge Handbook of the History of Settler Colonialism, edited by Edward Cavanagh and Lorenzo Veracini, 153–168. New York: Routledge.
“Democracy, Agency, and Radical Children’s Geographies.” 2016. In The Practice of Freedom: Anarchism, Geography, and the Spirit of Revolt, edited by Richard J. White, Simon Springer, and Marcelo Lopes de Souza, 235–255. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield.
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Book Reviews
Justice across Ages: Treating Young and Old as Equals. By Juliana Uhuru Bidadanure. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021. 256p. $100.00 cloth." Perspectives on Politics 20, no. 2 (2022): 712-713, 2022.
The Criminalization of Black Childhood: Race, Gender and Delinquency in Chicago’s Juvenile Justice System: 1899-1945. By Tera Eva Agyepong. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2018. xvi+180 pp. Society for the History of Childhood and Youth 13(1): 137-140, 2020.
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Occasional Writings
“Childing the World,” Trust Kids! Stories on Youth Autonomy and Confronting Adult Supremacy, carla joy bergman (ed.), 2022.
“Separate but Equal: False equality and the political exclusion of children,” Canadian Dimension 50(2), 2016.
“I am Canadian!! (Because of Treaties with Indigenous Nations).” In The Winter We Danced: Voices from the Past, the Future, and the Idle No More Movement, eds. The Kino-nda-niimi Collective. Winnipeg: ARP Press, 2014.
Embodied Recognition: Toward a Phenomenology of Political Affirmation(Saarbrücken: VDM-Verlag). Published monograph of MA thesis, 2008.
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Government Reports
“Alberta’s Sixties Scoop.” Ministry of Justice and Office of the Solicitor General. Edmonton: Government of Alberta, 2018.
“Sexual Consent and Sexual Violence.” Ministry of Status of Women. Edmonton: Government of Alberta, 2018.