Becoming Abject: Testing the Limits and Borders of Reading Mediation

Autor/inn/en	Véliz, Soledad; García-González, Macarena
Titel	Becoming Abject: Testing the Limits and Borders of Reading Mediation
Quelle	In: Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 43 (2022) 1, S.15-29 (15 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Véliz, Soledad) ORCID (García-González, Macarena)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0159-6306
DOI	10.1080/01596306.2020.1786355
Schlagwörter	Reading; Foreign Countries; Literacy; Picture Books; Reader Text Relationship; Facilitators (Individuals); Childrens Literature; Reading Aloud to Others; Psychological Patterns; Chile (Santiago) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Leseprozess; Lesen; Ausland; Alphabetisierung; Schreib- und Lesefähigkeit; Picture book; Bilderbuch; 'Children''s literature'; Kinderliteratur
Abstract	Reading mediation is a concept used in Latin America and Spain, referring to the nurturing role played by adults in forging relationships between children and books. In this article, we conceptualize reading mediation as a 'technology of affect'. We propose 'mediation-as-usual', a normative becoming of this technology, tasked with producing categories and identities regarding readers. Within this technology, adults are produced as empathetic, caring, and providers of safe spaces for reading. We report on literary encounters at a school in Santiago, Chile, with a 'challenging' picturebook. We were involved in the emergence of what we term 'abject mediation', a figuration that produces the limits and boundaries of mediation-as-usual, and, we argue, has transformative potential. However, this is an ephemeral figuration, as reterritorialization works to assimilate the border elements, actualizing mediation-as-usual. We discuss how these figurations may help to question normative ways of producing readers. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01