*CFP* "DREAM-CHASERS: CHILDREN AND SUCCESS IN ASIA", EDITED COLLECTION

This collection aims to explore how success is conceived for children across Asia. Economic development in the region is re-shaping the way success is understood for children. What does a “successful” child look like? How does childhood agency influence ideas about success? How is success for children represented in literature, cinema, and popular media? In what ways are these images grounded in the historical, political, cultural, theoretical, or philosophical contexts in which they are produced and consumed? 

While there have been numerous empirically-driven research into conceptualisations of success among young people, how success is defined for children in the texts they consume is an under-researched topic. 

We seek contributions that examine representations of success for children in Asia.

Possible areas of investigation may include, but are not limited to, the following:

• How does literacy / education relate to ideas about success for children? 
• Morality and ethics 
• Religion 
• Gender and/or sexuality 
• Race, ethnicity, and/or cultural difference 
• Class 
• Marginality and/or minority status 
• Parental expectations vs children’s desires 
• Juvenile delinquency

Please submit a 300 word abstract, current contact information along with a two-page CV as Word attachments to Sue Chen and Sin Wen Lau to globalguai@gmail.com by 15 August 2020. Authors will be notified by 30 September 2020. The deadline for finished essays is 15 February 2021.