Speaking to, talking back, redefining: Reimagining childhood Resistance

This panel session focuses on (re)imagining childhood and youth resistance through examining how children are speaking to, talking back and redefining their "turbulent presents and precarious futures." In particular, the papers in this panel are grounded in the premise that children and youth are knowing and active participants in their schooling and broader sociopolitical contexts, evident in the creative and intentional ways they resist deficit discourses, aim to transform their learning spaces and manifest concrete, collective futures. The qualitative and mixed methods papers draw on and are guided by Critical Race Theory, Decolonial Political Anthropology and Critical Education Studies.