Jayne Osgood
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Jayne Osgood is a leading scholar in early childhood studies, feminist new materialism, and posthumanist inquiry. Her work radically reimagines childhood, family, and pedagogy by foregrounding the entangled relations between humans, animals, matter, and space. In her highly influential paper, "Pets that Have ‘Something Inside’: The Material Politics of in/Animacy and Queer Kin within the Childhood Menagerie" (2020, 26 citations), Osgood unsettles normative Western conceptions of family by exploring how children’s caring relations with pets generate queer, more-than-human kinships. This work exemplifies her broader commitment to challenging anthropocentric and developmental frameworks, instead centering the material, affective, and political dimensions of children’s lives. Osgood’s contributions have reshaped critical childhood studies, earning her international recognition as a pioneer of post-qualitative and feminist materialist methodologies. She is also known for her collaborative projects on gender, sexuality, and social justice in education, and for co-editing key volumes that advance new materialist thought. With a career spanning over two decades, Osgood’s research continues to inspire scholars to think differently about childhood, care, and the ethical politics of everyday life.
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