Claudia Mitchell

Journal Editing

Mitchell, C. & Reid-Walsh, J. (2008-present). Girlhood Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal: New York. Berghahn Press.

Books

Mitchell, C., & Mandrona, A. (2019). Our rural selves: Memory, place and the visual in Canadian rural childhoods. Kingston, ON: McGill-Queens University Press.

Pithouse-Morgan, K., Pillay, D., & Mitchell, C. (Eds.) (2019). Memory mosaics: Researching Teacher Professional Learning Through Artful Memory-work. New York, NY: Springer.

Mitchell, C., & Moletsane, R. (Eds.) (2018). Disrupting shameful legacies: Girls and young women speak back through the arts to address sexual violence. Rotterdam, Netherlands: Brill/Sense.

Mandrona, A., & Mitchell, C. (Eds.) (2018). Visual encounters in the study of rural childhoods. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press.

Mitchell, C., & Sommer, M. (Eds.) (2017). Participatory visual methodologies in global public health. London, UK: Routledge Taylor Francis.

Mitchell, C., De Lange, N., & Moletsane, R. (2017). Participatory visual methodologies: Social change, community and policy. Los Angeles, CA: Sage.

Mitchell, C., & Rentschler, C. (eds.). (2016). Girlhood and the Politics of Place: New York: Berghahn Press.

Gillander-Gadin, K. & Mitchell, C. (Eds). (2015)  Being young in neoliberal time:Transnational perspectives on  challenges and possibilities for resistance and social change. Sundsvall, Sweden: Forum for Gender Studies

Strong-Wilson, T., Mitchell, C., Allnutt, S. & Pithouse, K. (2013). Productive remembering and social agency. Rotterdam: Sense.

Milne, E-J, Mitchell, C., & De Lange, N. (Eds.). (2012). Handbook on participatory video. Alta Mira Press.

Moletsane, R., Mitchell, C., & Smith, A. (2012). Was it something I wore?  Dress, identity, materiality. Cape Town: HSRC Press.

Mitchell, C. (2011). Doing visual research. London and New York: Sage.

Mitchell, C., Strong-Wilson, T., Pithouse, K., & Allnutt, S. (Eds.). (2011). Memory and pedagogy. London and New York: Routledge.

Theron. L., Mitchell, C., Smith, A., & Stuart, J. (Eds.). (2011). Picturing research: Drawings as visual methodology. Rotterdam: Sense.

Islam, F., Mitchell, C., Balfour, R., De Lange, N., & Combrinck, M. (Eds.). (2011). School-university partnerships for educational change. New York: Edwin Mellen.

Mitchell, C., & Pithouse, K. (2009). Teaching and HIV/AIDS in the South African classroom. Johannesburg: Macmillan.

Pithouse, K., Mitchell, C., & Moletsane, R. (2009). Making connections: Self-study and social action. New York: Peter Lang.

Moletsane, R., Mitchell, C., Smith, A., & Chisholm, L. (2008). Methodologies for Mapping a Southern African girlhood in the age of AIDS. Rotterdam: Sense.

Mitchell, C., & Reid-Walsh, J. (Eds.). (2008). Girl Culture: An Encyclopedia (2 volumes). Westport, CT: Greenwood Press.

De Lange, N., Mitchell, C., & Stuart, J. (Eds.). (2007). Putting people in the picture: Visual methodologies for social change. Amsterdam: Sense.

Leach, F., & Mitchell, C. (Eds.). (2006). Combating gender violence in and around schools. Sterling, USA: Trentham Books.

Jiwani, Y., Steenbergen, C., & Mitchell, C. (Eds.). (2006). Girlhood: Redefining the limits. Montreal: Black Rose Books.

Mitchell, C., Weber, S., & O’Reilly-Scanlon, K. (Eds.). (2005). Just who do we think we are? Methodologies for autobiography and self-study in teaching. London: Routledge-Falmer.

Mitchell, C., & Reid-Walsh, J. (Eds.). (2005). Seven going on seventeen: Tween studies in the culture of girlhood.. New York: Peter Lang Associates.

Balfour, R., Buthelezi, T., & Mitchell, C. (Eds.). (2004). Teacher development at the centre of change. Durban: KZN DE.

Weber, S., & Mitchell, C. (Eds.). (2004). Not just any dress: Narratives of memory, body and identity. New York: Peter Lang Associates.

Mitchell, C., & Reid-Walsh, J. (2002). Researching children’s popular culture: Cultural spaces of childhood. London: RoutledgeTaylor and Francis.

Mitchell, C., & Weber, S. (1999). Reinventing ourselves as teachers: Beyond nostalgia. London: Falmer Press.

Weber, S., & Mitchell, C. (1995). That's funny you don't look like a teacher: Interrogating images of identity in popular culture. London: Falmer Press.

Journal Articles

Nguyen, X. T., Mitchell, C., De Lange, N., & Fritsch, K. (2015). Engaging girls with disabilities in Vietnam: Making their voices count. Disability & Society, 30(5), 773–787. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09687599.2015.1051515

Schwab-Cartas, J., & Mitchell, C. (2015). A tale of two sites: Cellphones, participatory video and indigeneity in community-based research. McGill Journal of Education, 49(3), 603-620.

Strong-Wilson,T., Mitchell, C., Morrison, C., Radford, L., & Pithouse-Morgan, K. (2015). “Reflecting forward” on the digital in multidirectional memory-work between Canada and South Africa. McGill Journal of Education, 49(3), 675-696.

Oliver, V., Flicker, S., Danforth, J., Konsmo, E., Wilson, C., Jackson, R., Restoule, J-P., Prentice, T., Larkin, J., & Mitchell, C. (2015). “Women are supposed to be the leaders:” The Intersections of Gender, Race and Colonisation in HIV Prevention with Indigenous Youth. Culture, Health and Sexuality. Doi:10.1080/13691058.2015.1009170

Haldar, M., Rueda, E., Waerdahl, R., Mitchell. C. & Geldenhuys, J. (2015). Where are the children? Exploring the boundaries between text and context in the study of place and space in 4 countries. Chidren & Society 29, (2015) pp. 48–58. DOI:10.1111/chso.12017

Flicker, S., Danforth, J., Wilson, C..  Oliver, V., Larkin, J. Restoule, J-P, Mitchell, C., Konsmo, E., Jackson, R. & Prentice, T. . (2014). “Because we have really unique art”: Decolonizing research with Indigenous youth using the arts. International Journal of Indigenous Health 10, no. 1, 16-34.

Chege, F., Maina, L., Mitchell, C. & Rothman, M. (2014). Visual essay: A Safe House? Girls’ Drawings on Safety and Security in Slums in and Around Nairobi. Girlhood Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal. 7:2 130-135.

Akesson, B., D'Amico, M., Denov, M., Khan, F., Linds, W., & Mitchell, C. A. (2014). 'Stepping Back'as Researchers: Addressing Ethics in Arts-Based Approaches to Working with War-Affected Children in School and Community Settings. Educational Research for Social Change (ERSC), 3(1), 75-89.

Nguyen, X.T., & Mitchell, C. (2014).  Inclusion in Viet Nam: An intersectionality perspective on girls with disabilities and education. Childhood. DOI: 10.1177/0907568214524459 published online 9 May 2014

Mitchell, C., De Lange, N., & Moletsane, R. (2014), Me and my cellphone: constructing change from the inside through cellphilms and participatory video in a rural community. Area. doi: 10.1111/area.12142 / ISSN: 1475-4762

Mitchell, C. & Pithouse-Morgan, K. (2014). Expanding the memory catalogue: Southern African women’s contributions to memory-work writing as a feminist methodology. Agenda 28(1), 92-103. doi: 10.1080/10130950.2014.883704

Smillie, C., Larkin, J., Flicker, S., Restoule, J.P., Koleszar-Green, R., Barlow, K., Mitchell, C., Masching, R. (2014). Colonalisim-and-Aborginal-Youth. Canadian Journal of Aboriginal Community-Based HIV/AIDS Research: Retrieved from http://www.caan.ca/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/HIV-Colonalisim-and-Aborgi...

De Lange, N., & Mitchell, C. (2014). Building a future without gender violence: rural teachers and youth in rural KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, leading community dialogue. Gender and education, 26(5), 584-599.

Mitchell, C., & De Lange, N. (2013). What can a teacher do with a cellphone? Using participatory visual research to speak back in addressing HIV&AIDS. South African Journal of Education, 33(4), 1-13.

Labacher, L., & Mitchell, C. (2013). Talk or text to tell? How young adults in Canada and South Africa prefer to receive STI results, counseling, and treatment updates in a wireless world. Journal of health communication, 18(12), 1465-1476

Mitchell, C. & Conway, C. (2013). Integrating gender and HIV/AIDS into food security initiatives. Ethiopian Journal of  Applied Science and Technology. (Special Issue No. 1), 91-101.

Mitchell, C. (2013). Mapping Girlhood Studies: The journal, the academic field and the prospects. The Journal of Social Policy Studies. 11 (1), 103 -118/ Клаудия Митчелл Исследования девичества: журнал, научное направление и перспективы // Журнал исследований социальной политики. Т.11. №1. 2013. С.103 – 118.

Mitchell, C. & Murray, J. (2012). Social networking practices and youth advocacy efforts in  HIV awareness and prevention: What does methodology have to do with it?. Educational Research and Social Change.1:2

Mitchell, C. (2011). What’s participation got to do with it? Visual methodologies in ‘girl-method’ to address gender based violence in the time of AIDS. Global Studies of Childhood, 1(1), 51-59. doi.org/10.2304/gsch.2011.1.1.51

Mitchell, C., Belew, D., Debela, A., Muleta, D., & Fikreyesus, S. (2011). The Farmer and her husband: Engendering the curriculum in a Faculty of Agriculture in an Ethiopian University. Agenda, 2010, 66-77

Mitchell, C., Dillon, D., Strong-Wilson, T., Pithouse, K., Islam, F., O’Connor, K., Rudd, C., Staniforth, P., & Cole, A. (2010). Things fall apart and come together: Using the visual for reflection in alternative teacher education programmes. Changing English, 17, 1(45-55)

Mitchell, C. (2008). Taking the picture, changing the picture. Visual methodologies in educational research in South Africa. South African Journal of Educational Research. 28(3), 365-383

Collected Works

Mitchell, C. & Burkholder, C. (2015). Literacies and research for social change. In K. Pahle & J. Rowsell (eds), The Routledge Handbook of Literacy Studies. London and New York: Routledge. 

Mitchell, C. (2015). Who's learning or whose learning? Critical perspectives on the idea of youth-led policy making related to gender based violence in a South African classroom. In J. Wyn & H. Cahill (eds). Handbook of children and youth studies (pp. 169-181). Dubai, UAE: Springer-Verlag Singapur.

Moletsane, R., Mitchell, C. & Lewin, T. (2015). Gender equity as policy in South Africa: Privileging the voices of women and girls through participatory visual methods. In J. Parkes (ed.).  Gender violence and violations: The educational challenge in poverty contexts. (pp.183-196). London, UK: Routledge

Mitchell, C. (2015). Girls’ texts, visual culture and shifting the boundaries of knowledge in social justice research.. In C. Bradford and M. Reimer (eds.), Girls, cultures, texts. (pp 139-160).Waterloo, ON: Wilfred Laurier University Press.  In Print April 2015.

Mitchell, C. (2015). Fire+Hope up: On revisiting the process of revisiting a literacy for social action project. In J. Rowsell & J. Sefton-Greene (eds) Revisiting Learning Lives – longitudinal perspectives on researching learning and literacy. (32-45) London and New York: Taylor & Francis.

Mitchell, C. (2014). What will we know when we know it? Digital media and youth-as-knowledge producers in the age of AIDS. In K. Sanford, T. Rogers & M. Kendrick (eds.). Everyday Youth Literacies (pp. 81-93).. New York, NY: Springer.

Strong-Wilson, T., Mitchell, C., Morrison, C., Radford, L. &  Pithouse-Morgan, K. (2014).  Looking forward through looking back: Using digital-memory-work in teaching for transformation. In L. Thomas & T. Falkenberg (eds.), Becoming a teacher: Sites for teacher development (pp. 442-468). Ottawa: CATE.

Strong-Wilson, T., Mitchell, C., Allnutt, S. & Pithouse-Morgan, K. (2013). Back to the future: Productive remembering and social agency.  In T. Strong-Wilson, C. Mitchell, S. Allnutt & K. Pithouse-Morgan (pp. 1-16). Productive remembering and social agency. Rotterdam, The Netherlands: Sense.

Mitchell, C. (2013). Oil rites and oil rights. In T. Strong-Wilson, C. Mitchell, S. Allnutt & K. Pithouse-Morgan. Productive remembering and social agency (pp. 123-138). Rotterdam, The Netherlands: Sense.

Rivard, L., & Mitchell, C. (2013). Sport, gender and development: On the use of photovoice as a participatory action research tool to inform policy makers. In L Azzarito & D. Kirk (Eds.), Pedagogies, Physical Culture and Visual Methods (pp. 131-143). London and New York: Routledge.

Stuart, J., & Mitchell, C.  (2013). Media and Social Change: working within a “Youth as Knowledge Producers” framework. In D. Lemish (ed.) Routledge Handbook on children, adolescents and media studies. (pp. 359-365) London and New York: Routledge.

Pithouse-Morgan, K., De Lange, N., Mitchell, C., Moletsane, R., Olivier, T., Stuart, J., Van Laren, L., & Wood, L.(2013). Creative and participatory strategies for teacher development in the age of AIDS. In J. Kirk, M. Dembélé & S. Baxter (Eds.), More and better teachers for quality education for all: Identity and motivation, systems and support. E-book available online at http://moreandbetterteachers.wordpress.com/: Collaborative Works.

Mitchell, C. (2012). On a pedagogy of ethics in visual research: Who’s in the picture? In J. Hughes (Ed). SAGE Visual Methods. (307-327) London: Sage.

Mitchell, C. (2012.) Putting people in the picture and keeping people in the picture: What’s participation got to do with it. In M. Fra,ckowiak , L. Olszewski & M. Rosin’ka (eds.). Collaboratorium: A participatory space for social change. (89-98) Poznan:Fundacja SPOT.

Labacher, L., De Lange, N., Mitchell, C., Moletsane, R., & Geldenhys, M. (2012).What can a visual researcher do with a storyboard? In E-J Milne, C. Mitchell, & N. De Lange (Eds.), The handbook of participatory video (pp. 149-163). Lanham, MD: AltaMira Press.

Mitchell, C., Milne, E-J, & De Lange, N. (2012). Introduction. In E-J Milne, C. Mitchell, & N. De Lange (Eds.), The handbook of participatory video (pp. 1-15). Lanham, MD: AltaMira Press.

De Lange, N., & Mitchell., C. (2012). Building sustainability into work with participatory video. In E-J Milne, C. Mitchell, & N. De Lange (Eds.), The handbook of participatory video (pp. 318-330). Lanham, MD: AltaMira Press.

Mitchell, C., Moletsane, R., & Pithouse, K. (2012). Reconfiguring dress. In R. Moletsane,  C. Mitchell, & A. Smith (Eds.), Was it something I wore? Dress, materiality, identity. (pp 3-18) Cape Town: HSRC Press.

Tao, R., & Mitchell, C. ( 2012). Dressing sex/wearing a condom: Exploring social constructions of sexuality through a social semiotic analysis of the condom. In R. Moletsane, C. Mitchell, & A. Smith (Eds.), Was it something I wore? Dress, materiality, identity. (pp. 162-180). Cape Town: HSRC Press.

Mitchell, C. (2011). Picturing violence. Participatory visual methodologies in working with girls to address school and domestic violence in Rwanda. In K. Mundy & S. Dryden-Petersen (eds.), Education in conflict: A tribute to Jackie (221-233). New York: Teachers College Press.

Mitchell, C., & De Lange, N. (2011). Community based video and social action in rural South Africa. In L. Pauwels and E. Margolis (eds.), Handbook on Visual Methods (171-185). London: SAGE.

Mitchell, C., Wilson, T., Pithouse, K., & Allnutt, S. (2011). Introducing memory and pedagogy. In C. Mitchell. T. Strong-Wilson, K. Pithouse and S. Allnutt (eds.), Memory and Pedagogy (1-13). London and New York: Routledge.

Islam, F., & Mitchell, C. (2011). Neoliberal globalization, multilateral development agencies and HIV and AIDs education in South Africa: Looking back to look ahead. In D. Kapoor (ed.), Critical perspectives on neoliberal globalization, development and education in Africa and Asia (121-134). Rotterdam: Sense Publishers.

Islam, F., Mitchell, C., De Lange, N., & Balfour, R. (2011). School-University Partnerships for Educational Change: An Introduction. In F. Islam, C. Mitchell, N. De Lange, R.Balfour and M. Combrinck (eds.), School-university partnerships for educational change in rural South Africa: Particular challenges and practical cases (1-20). New York: Edwin Mellen.

Balfour, R., Mitchell, C., & Moletsane, R. (2011). Understanding Rurality in the Troubling Context: Prospects and Challenges In F. Islam, C. Mitchell, N.de Lange, R.Balfour and M. Combrinck. (eds.), School-university partnerships for educational change in rural South Africa: Particular challenges and practical cases (23-39). New York: Edwin Mellen.

Mitchell, C., De Lange, N., Balfour, R., & Islam, F. (2011). Transforming Teacher Education? A Rural Teacher Education Project Experience. In F. Islam, C. Mitchell, N. De Lange, R. Balfour and M. Combrinck. (eds.), School-university partnerships for educational change in rural South Africa: Particular challenges and practical cases(59-79). New York: Edwin Mellen.

Mitchell, C., Islam, F., De Lange, N., Balfour, R., & Combrinck, M. (2011) Epilogue: New teachers for new times. In F. Islam, C. Mitchell, N. De Lange, R. Balfour and M. Combrinck. (eds.), School-university partnerships for educational change in rural South Africa: Particular challenges and practical cases (245-252). New York: Edwin Mellen.

Mitchell, C., Theron, L., Smith, A., & Stuart, J. (2011). Picturing research: an introduction. In L. Theron, C. Mitchell, A. Smith and J. Stuart (eds.), Picturing research: Drawing(s) as visual methodology (1-16). Rotterdam: Sense.

Mitchell, C., Theron, L., Stuart, J., Smith, A. & Campbell, Z. (2011). Drawing as research method. In L. Theron, C. Mitchell, A. Smith and J. Stuart (eds.), Picturing research: Drawing(s) as visual methodology (19-36). Rotterdam: Sense.

MacEntee, K., & Mitchell, C. (2011). Lost in translation. In L. Theron, C. Mitchell, A. Smith and J. Stuart (eds.), Picturing research: Drawing(s) as visual methodology (89-102). Rotterdam: Sense.

Theron, L., Mitchell, C., & Stuart, J. (2011). A positive, African ethical approach to collecting and interpreting drawings: Some considerations. In L. Theron, C. Mitchell, A. Smith and J. Stuart (eds.), Picturing   research: Drawing(s) as visual methodology (49-61). Rotterdam: Sense.

De Lange, N., Stuart, J., & Mitchell, C. (2011). Learning together: Teachers and community health care workers draw each other. In L. Theron, C. Mitchell, A. Smith and J. Stuart (eds.), Picturing research: Drawing(s) as visual methodology (177-189). Rotterdam: Sense.

Mitchell, C., De Lange, N., & Moletsane, R. (2011). Before the camera rolls. Drawing storyboards to address gendered poverty. In L. Theron, C. Mitchell, A. Smith and J. Stuart (eds.), Picturing research: Drawing(s) as visual methodology (219-231). Rotterdam: Sense.

Sorenssen, I., & Mitchell, C. (2011). Tween-method and the politics of studying kinderculture. In S. Steinberg (ed.), Kinderculture, 3rd edition (153-172). Boulder: Westview Press.

Mitchell, C., Pascarella, J., De Lange, N., & Stuart, J. (2010). “We wanted other people to learn from us”: Girls blogging in rural South Africa in the age of AIDS. In S. Mazzarella (ed.), Girl wide web 2.0: Revising girls, the internet and the negotiation of identity (161-182). New York: Peter Lang.

Mitchell, C. (2010). Things, objects and gendered consumption in childhood studies. In D. Buckingham and V. Tingstad (eds.), Childhood and consumer culture (94-112). London: Palgrave.

Kirk, J., Mitchell, C., & Reid-Walsh, J. (2010). Toward political agency for girls: Mapping the discourses of girlhood globally. In J. Helgren and C. Vascolles (eds.), Girlhood: A global history (14-29). N.J., Rutgers University Press.

Mitchell, C., Stuart, J., De Lange, N., Moletsane, R., Buthelezi, T., Larkin, J., & Flicker, S. (2010). What difference does this make? Studying South African youth as knowledge producers in the age of AIDS. In C. Higgins and B. Norton (eds.), Language and HIV/AIDS (214-232). Toronto: Multi-Lingual Matters.