Emotional Justice as an antidote to loneliness: children's books, listening and connection

Magnet, Shoshana; Dunnington, Catherine-Laura

doi:10.1177/14647001211062746

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“…Similarly, books offered child readers sanctuary from the 'storm' of the pandemic that isolated them from friends and enabled them to see beyond this storm to brighter days. This finding aligns with studies such as Magnet and Dunnington's (2022) that highlighted how picturebooks which address loneliness and its antidotes can help to fight feelings of loneliness in children. Moving beyond childhood, a research report also found that reading books significantly reduced feelings of loneliness for people aged 18 to 64 (Hilhorst et al, 2018).…”

Section: Children Reading During a Pandemic: Immersion Through Isloationsupporting

confidence: 87%

Children reading alone and reading together: literary representations and lessons from a pandemic

Webster

2022

J. Silenc. Stud. Educ.

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This article first explores three literary representations of young people who are immersed in books by focusing on Alice’s sister in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Belle from Beauty and the Beast and Matilda. It argues that these characters create solitary reading experiences by being absorbed in books which provides escapism and company. It considers how representations of literary children immersed in books can provide a model of this type of reading behaviour for child readers, provided that these representations are sufficiently diverse. The article then focuses on primary literacy education in the United Kingdom and discusses how policy requirements can mean that children’s school reading experiences are often shared rather than solitary ones. It draws on a recent study of children’s reading habits (Topping, 2021) to highlight how children’s increased enjoyment in reading during the first lockdown of the Covid-19 pandemic can be partly attributed to them having more time to read alone, which enabled them to become immersed in a story and made them feel better about being isolated. The article concludes by arguing that children need to have more opportunities in school to be alone with books to allow for immersive reading experiences.

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Section: Children Reading During a Pandemic: Immersion Through Isloationsupporting

confidence: 87%

Children reading alone and reading together: literary representations and lessons from a pandemic

Webster

2022

J. Silenc. Stud. Educ.

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“…In a 2022 special issue of Feminist Theory , several authors discussed the myriad ways feminist theories can trouble and disrupt dominant narratives of loneliness. More specifically, the authors suggested several structural forces that may produce loneliness, including settler colonialism (Cvetkovich, 2022), medicalization (Jones, 2022), white supremacy, capitalism, heteropatriarchy (Magnet & Dunnington, 2022), anti-Blackness, transphobia, and HIV stigma (Mosley, 2022). Building on a structural feminist approach, queer of color critique is best suited to situate and center Black trans manifestations of loneliness through structural isolation.…”

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(Un)Belonging: The Production of Black Trans Loneliness

Jenkins

2023

Affilia

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Black trans people frequently deal with the violent consequences of systemic erasure. Particularly, Black trans people experience structural racism and oppression that socially and economically isolates them, creating conditions for a unique experience of loneliness. In this essay, I engage queer of color critique to explore structural forces that work together to systematically and violently exclude Black trans people. The purpose of this conceptual piece is to advance loneliness theory to include structural isolation to explain manifestations of loneliness due to discrimination and oppression of Black trans people. I discuss my motivations and methods to engage in this work, my theoretical framework, followed by a critique of the theoretical underpinnings of loneliness research. Later, I identify and define three manifestations of structural isolation—anti-Black racism, cisheterosexism, and neoliberalism. Then, I discuss how these forces work together to produce structural isolation among Black trans people and how that isolation places them at risk for loneliness. I conclude this article with a discussion on how queer of color critique provides a framework for a more inclusive analysis of race, gender, and class in social work studies. Finally, I put forward my perception of the critical implications for social work.

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“…Our love is community and connection, antidotes to loneliness, confirmation that emotional justice is doable and attainable (Magnet & Dunnington, 2022).…”

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The Virtual Geography of Afrodiasporic Womanist Love: Black Women Critical Educators Collectively Cultivating Solidarity and (En)countering Loneliness Online

Ohito,

Dunn,

Green

et al. 2023

New Horizons in Adult Education and Human Resource Development

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In this multimodal article, we respond to the pervasive erasure of Black women’s knowledge-making practices and pedagogies in academic literature writ large while illustrating the use of creative methods for making meaning of community, connection, sociality, and solidarity, in virtual or online adult learner education spaces. We begin by narrating how our collective of U.S.-based Black women comparative and international education scholar-practitioners lovingly banded together for a Study Abroad Program. We theorize the diasporic Blackness undergirding our womanist love of one another as a spatial, relational, corporeal, and political force helpful for cultivating critical community and affective solidarity in our virtual geographic context. Then, using kitchen-table talk as a reflexive method of inquiry, we probe the particularities of that Afrodiasporic womanist love—the energy cohering our collective in an online environment—as noun and verb: a source of sustenance, a reprieve from loneliness during the COVID-19 pandemic, and a care-full comforting and healing practice. We locate our theorizing in the genealogy of Black feminist thought, and to interrogate how Afrodiasporic womanist love is shaped by and situated in time, space, and body(ies), we explore our geohistories and legacies. We conclude by reflecting on how, in addition to building solidarity, Afrodiasporic womanist love helped us form a supportive critical community online that provided sanctuary as we (re)conceptualized justice, freedom, and humanity in our individual and collective praxis vis-à-vis the intimacy, authenticity, and vulnerability demanded by this type of Black love.

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Emotional Justice as an antidote to loneliness: children's books, listening and connection

Cited by 3 publications

References 29 publications

Children reading alone and reading together: literary representations and lessons from a pandemic

Children reading alone and reading together: literary representations and lessons from a pandemic

(Un)Belonging: The Production of Black Trans Loneliness

The Virtual Geography of Afrodiasporic Womanist Love: Black Women Critical Educators Collectively Cultivating Solidarity and (En)countering Loneliness Online

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