BIN - Børnekulturforskning i Norden
Nordic research network for child culture
A big thank you to all who participated in this year conference!
The conference The Poetics and Politics of Child Culture(s) was two days filled with attention to the aesthetic, practical, economic, and ideological possibilities and challenges that child and youth cultures are facing today.
The conference emphasized the importance of recognizing children as cultural agents and questioned how political, social, and technological forces shape the possibilities for child and youth culture today.
The steering group would like to give a huge thank you to all who helped making the conference possible. Below you will find links to the abstract book, and an open call for a special issue of BUKS that connects to the conference.
If you are not already a member of BIN, do not hesitate to sign up!
About us
BIN-Norden is a Nordic research network based on humanistic, social science, cultural-historical and aesthetical studies.
It is a continuation of Nordic networks and research collaboration since the 1970s. Originally, focus was on literature and new media for children, children’s folklore and their oral expressions; now all humanistic studies based on a cultural-historic, cultural-theoretical and aesthetical approach are included.
Fields of interest:
- Cultural products for children – and the cultural history of childhood.
- Children’s production of culture, cultural expression and daily life – from traditional and children’s folklore and other oral and physical expression and play culture, to children’s role as social and cultural actors, children’s use of electronic media, and of their social, physical and institutional terms of life.
- Cultural activities initiated by adults and projects with children.
Through BIN-Norden we aim to create network relations in order to exchange and develop the competence in this field. BIN-Norden is led by a workgroup that arrange research seminars, publish reports and other information. The participants in the network come from significant research centers and institutions in the field in the Nordic countries.
For questions, please contact the network