cooo: Child-Object-Oriented Ontology

Childhood Studies benefits from the playful and theoretical roots found in posthumanist thinking. Tied up in concepts of protection and futurity, this playful, but serious, offspring of Object Oriented Ontology, child-object-oriented ontology (cooo) highlights the connections parents have to their children, while also reminding them how withdrawn the child-as-object is. This paper is structured to trouble and ease minds. Starting with the philosophical foundations of Object Oriented Ontology, which offers a different way to consider children and childhood.