Theorising Childhood

Claudio Baraldi is Professor of Sociology of Cultural and Communicative Processes at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy. Tom Cockburn is Professor of Social Sciences and Head of Department at the Department of Social Sciences, Edge Hill University, UK.

“Personally, I approached the book due to my recent scholarly interest in children’s rights, especially in a transnational context, as part of my research into the sociology of the family. … I warmly recommend the present work to all those interested in the topics of citizenship, rights and participation of children, as it provides the reader with the necessary overview required to understand the recent research directions in the field.” (Viorela Ducu, Romanian Journal of Population Studies, Vol. 13 (1), 2019)

• 1. Introduction: Lived Citizenship, rights and participation in contemporary Europe; Claudio Baraldi and Tom Cockburn.- 2. Children’s citizenship in globalised societies; Hanne Warming.- 3. Children’s participation: definitions, narratives and disputes; Michael Wyness.- 4. Recognition and capability: a new way to understand how children can achieve their rights?; Nigel Thomas  and Daniel Stoecklin.- 5. Theorising Children’s Bodies. A critical review of relational understandings in Childhood Studies; Florian Eßer.- 6. Unexpected allies. Expanding the theoretical toolbox of the children’s rights sociologist; Michele Poretti.- 7. Beyond the modern “norm” of childhood: children at the margins as a challenge for the Sociology of Childhood; Manuel Jacinto Sarmento, Rita de Cássia Marchi and Gabriela de Pina Trevisan.- 8. Participation as learning for change in everyday spaces: Enhancing meaning and effectiveness using action research; Barry Percy-Smith.-9. The child, the pupil, the citizen. Outlines and perspectives of a critical theory of citizenship education; Federico Farini.- 10. Heteropolitical pedagogies. citizenship and childhood. Commoning education in contemporary Greece; Yannis Pechtelidis.- 11. The right to be transnational. Narratives and positionings of children with a migration background in Italy; Sara Amadasi and Vittorio Iervese.- 12. Conclusions: Lived Childhoods; Claudio Baraldi and Tom Cockburn.