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Dr Artie Annie McCarthy

Artie Annie

Lecturer, University of Canberra, Australia

Email: artie.mccarthy@canberra.edu.au

Profile

Dr. A. McCarthy is currently a Lecturer in Global Studies at the University of Canberra. Their 2021 book "Children and NGOs in India: Development as Storytelling and Performance" documented the way slum children in Delhi creatively pursue their own projects of development through participation in NGO programs. As well as this focus on children's participation, Dr McCarthy's work has also explored the way children in the global south are framed by various biomedical problematisations such as Stunting and Menstrual Hygiene Management (MHM) in ways that consolidate the very deficit discourses that prevent meaningful engagement in these children's lives. More recently, they have begun to build on their ethnographic research by exploring the historical and transnational dimensions of children and young people’s participation in humanitarianism and development. This includes work on a project that called Crafting Humanitarianism that positions children at the centre of histories of humanitarians and development not as objects but as active subjects.

Research

Publications

McCarthy (2021) Children and NGOs in India: Development as storytelling and performance, Routledge

McCarthy (2022) “Is there going to be another competition today?”: Contesting development through competition, Social Analysis 66 (4), 91-111.

McCarthy (2023) "Timely Development: Visualizing Children’s Growth and Potential", Journal of Childhood Studies 48 (1), 8-29.

McCarthy (2023) "“Do not adjust your mind—there is a fault in reality” Simulation games and development education" HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory 13 (3), 494-512.

McCarthy (2023) "Votes for children: the 1931 NSW Children’s Peace Vote for international cooperation, peace and security," History Australia 20 (4), 497-520.

McCarthy (2025) "Rickety Puppies, a Cow called UNICEF, and a Carrot with Healthy Eyes: More-than-human Teachers and the Malnourished Child" in Terri Doughty, Justyna Deszcz-Tryhubczak, Janet GraftonI (eds) Children’s Literatures, Cultures, and Pedagogies in the Anthropocene: Multidisciplinary Entanglements, Bloomsbury Academic

Expertise

Development, Participation, Stunting, MHM, Children's Art
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