Toby Rollo
2015 Ph.D. University of Toronto
2007 M.A. University of Victoria
2006 B.A. (Hons). University of British Columbia
Recent Publications
ARTICLES
“Confronting Adultcentrism: Childist and decolonial interventions in educational philosophies and institutions,” Philosophy of Childhood 20, with Tanu Biswas, 2025.
“Childism and Philosophy: A Conceptual Coexploration,” Policy Futures in Education 22(5), 2024, with John Wall, Hanne Warming, Ohad Zehavi, David Kennedy, Karin Murris, Walter Kohan, and Britta Saal.
“‘The First Mark of Pain’: Toward a child-centered methodological reorientation of social theory, race, and corporal punishment in American life,” Sociology Compass 15(12), 2021, with Stacey Patton and Tommy Curry.
“Babies and Boomers: Intergenerational Democracy and the Political Epidemiology of COVID-19,” Democratic Theory 7(2): 75-81, 2020.
“Democratic Silence: Two Forms of Domination in the Social Contract Tradition,” Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy. Online First: July 23, 2020.
“Two Political Ontologies and Three Models of Silence: Voice, Signal, and Action,” Critical Exchange: The Nature of Silence and Its Democratic Possibilities, in Contemporary Political Theory 18(3): 424-447, 2019.
“Imperious Temptations: Democratic Legitimacy and Indigenous Consent in Canada,” Canadian Journal of Political Science 52(1): 1-19, 2018.
“Feral Children: Settler Colonialism, Progress and the Figure of the Child,” Settler Colonial Studies 8(1): 60-79, 2018.
“The Color of Childhood: The Role of the Child/Human Binary in the Production of Antiblack Racism,” Journal of Black Studies 49(4): 307-329, 2018.
“Back to the Rough Ground: Textual, Oral and Enactive Meaning in Comparative Political Theory,” European Journal of Political Theory. Online first, August 23, 2018.
“Everyday Deeds: Enactive Protest, Exit, and Silence in Deliberative Systems,” Political Theory 45(5): 587-609, 2017.
BOOK CHAPTERS
“Democracy and Developmentalism: The Logics of Child Exclusion,” in Handbook of Theories in Childhood Studies. John Wall (Ed.) Bloomsbury.
“Beyond Curricula: Colonial Pedagogies in Public Schooling,” in Troubling Truth and Reconciliation in Canadian Education Critical Perspectives. Eds. Arlo Kempf & Sandra Styles. Edmonton, University of Alberta Press, 2022.
“Women and Children First! The Ideal of Co-Emancipation in Feminist and LGBTQ Critique,” in Turbulent Times, Transformational Possibilities? Gender and Politics Today and Tomorrow, eds. Fiona MacDonald & Alexandra Dobrowolsky. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 199-220, 2020.
“Democratic Child’s Play: Natality, Responsible Education, and Decolonial Praxis,” in Thinking, Childhood, and Time: Contemporary Perspectives on the Politics of Education, eds. Walter Omar Kohan and Barbara Weber. Rowman & Littlefield, 145-160, 2020.
“Critical Pedagogies and Democratic Praxis.” with Cynthia McDermott, Richard Khan, and Fred Chapel. In SAGE International Handbook of Critical Pedagogies, eds. Shirley Steinberg, Barry Down, & Dara Nix-Stevenson. London: SAGE, 2020.
“Childhood and Modernity.” In SAGE Handbook of Children and Childhood, eds. Daniel Thomas Cook & Erica Burman. London: SAGE, 2020.
“Children as Other/Stranger” In SAGE Handbook of Children and Childhood, eds. Daniel Thomas Cook & Erica Burman. London: SAGE, 2020.
with Adam Barker & Emma Battell Lowman. “Settler Colonialism and the Consolidation of Canada in the Twentieth Century.” In The Routledge Handbook of the History of Settler Colonialism, eds. Edward Cavanagh & Lorenzo Veracini. New York: Routledge, 153-168, 2016.
“Democracy, Agency, and Radical Children’s Geographies.” In The Practice of Freedom: Anarchism, Geography and the Spirit of Revolt, eds. Richard J. White, Simon Springer & Marcelo Lopes de Souza. Washington: Rowman and Littlefield, 235-255, 2016.