Where Have All the Children Gone? Against Children’s Invisibility in the COVID-19 Pandemic

Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes1 https: //www. instagram. com/p/CAUvntwnQ3H/? utmₛource=ig, Posted May 18 2020. 2 Jean Hunleth, “Zambian Children’s Imaginal Caring: On Fantasy, Play, and Anticipation in an Epidemic, ” Cultural Anthropology 34, no. 2 (May 2019): 155–86. https: //doi. org/10. 14506/ca34. 2. 01. 3 Jean Hunleth, Children as Caregivers: The Global Fight Against Tuberculosis and HIV in Zambia (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2017). 4 Julie Spray, The Children in Child Health: Negotiating Young Lives and Health in New Zealand (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2020). https: //doi. org/10. 2307/j. ctvvh85fc. Additional informationNotes on contributorsJulie SprayJulie Spray is a postdoctoral research associate in the Division of Public Health Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. A medical and childhood anthropologist, she argues through her work for greater inclusion of children’s perspectives in health policy and of children as participants in their health care. Her recently published book, The Children in Child Health: Negotiating Young Lives and Health in New Zealand (Rutgers University Press, 2020), features children’s experiences of a rheumatic fever epidemic against a backdrop of colonization, poverty and social marginalization. She has also written about children’s perspectives on the pandemic for the popular New Zealand news site The Spinoff. She can be found on Twitter @JulieSeraSpray. Jean Hunleth is her favorite coproducer and American. Jean HunlethJean Hunleth is Assistant Professor of Surgery and Anthropology in the Division of Public Health Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. Her work with children living through epidemics has appeared in her award-winning book Children as Caregivers: The Global Fight Against Tuberculosis and HIV in Zambia (Rutgers University Press, 2017) and, most recently, in “Zambian Children’s Imaginal Caring: On Fantasy, Play, and Anticipation in an Epidemic, ” published open access in Cultural Anthropology (2019). She recently discussed children’s carework in the context of COVID-19 on Anthropod, the podcast of the Society for Cultural Anthropology. She is currently studying family caregiving for children in Zambia’s only pediatric hospital in the time of COVID-19. She can be found on Twitter @jhunleth.