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Government of Childhood
Discourse, Power and Subjectivity
Av K. Smith
Inbunden, 2014
569 kr
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Grounded in the Foucauldian literature on governmentality and drawing on a broad range of disciplines, this book examines the government of childhood in the West from the early modern period to the present. The book deals with three key time-periods and examines shifts in the conceptualization and …
Rethinking Childhoods and Migrations
Multidisciplinary Understandings and Key Concepts
Av Kerstin von Brömssen, Live Stretmo
Inbunden, 2026
1491 kr
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This edited volume investigates the complexities of child refugees and migrants from a global perspective. With millions of young migrants and refugees worldwide, there is a need for novel understandings and conceptualizations of the impact of national policies affecting these children, as well as …
Childhood and Consumer Culture
Inbunden, 2010
552 kr
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In recent years children have become an increasingly important consumer market, and there is growing concern about the 'commercialisation' of childhood. This book sheds light on these debates, offering new empirical data and challenging critical perspectives on children's engagement with consumer …
Childhood and Biopolitics
Climate Change, Life Processes and Human Futures
Av N. Lee
Inbunden, 2013
552 kr
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Will the future be a climate disaster? Will biotechnologies bring huge improvements to lifespan? Predictions vary, but children's status as human embodiments of the future puts them at the centre of attempts to shape the world and the discipline of childhood studies can therefore make a critical …
Rethinking Children's Citizenship
Av T. Cockburn
Inbunden, 2012
1067 kr
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This book explores the relationship between children and citizenship, analyzing international perspectives on citizenship and human rights and developing new methods for facilitating the recognition of children as participating agents within society.
Children and Armed Conflict
Cross-disciplinary Investigations
Inbunden, 2011
552 kr
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Exploring the experiences of children encountering war and armed conflict, this book draws upon history, ethnography, sociology, literature, media studies, psychology, public policy, and other disciplines to address children as soldiers, refugees, and peace-builders within their social, cultural, …
Childhood and Markets
Infants, Parents and the Business of Child Caring
Inbunden, 2018
880 kr
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This book explores how young children and new families are located in the consumer world of affluent societies. The author assesses the way in which the value of infants and monetary value in markets are realized together, and examines how the meanings of childhood are enacted in the practices, …
Children, Morality and Society
Av S. Frankel
Inbunden, 2012
552 kr
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This book explores the extent to which children engage with questions of morality, arguing that they are active members of society who have both the capacity and understanding to engage with discourses of morality.
Children and the Capability Approach
Av M. Biggeri, J. Ballet m. fl.
Inbunden, 2011
1098 kr
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Exploring a wide variety of case studies and developmental issues from a capability perspective, this book is an original contribution to both development and children's studies that raises a strong case for placing children's issues at the core of human development.
Socialising Children
Av A. James
Inbunden, 2013
537 kr
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Drawing on children's narratives about their everyday life this book explores how children come to understand the process of socialization at home, at school and in the neighbourhood as an embodied and biographical experience.
Children's Rights from Below
Cross-Cultural Perspectives
Av M. Liebel
Inbunden, 2012
552 kr
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This book presents an integral, cross-cultural reflection on the social reality of children's rights and citizenship, giving an insight into new perspectives on the history and different concepts of children's rights in a contextualized and localized manner.
Participation, Citizenship and Trust in Children's Lives
Av H. Warming
Inbunden, 2013
552 kr
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This book critically analyzes and theorizes trust dynamics in children's lives and how they impact upon children's participation, citizenship and well-being, drawing on a wealth of empirical evidence that examines trust in various institutional and cultural contexts.
Children, Media and Playground Cultures
Ethnographic Studies of School Playtimes
Av R. Willett, C. Richards m. fl.
Inbunden, 2013
552 kr
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Drawing on ethnographic accounts of children's media-referenced play, this book explores children's engagement with media cultures and playground experiences, analyzing a range of issues such as learning, fantasy, communication and identity.
Childhoods at the Intersection of the Local and the Global
Av R. Ame
Inbunden, 2012
552 kr
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Childhoods at the Intersection of the Local and the Global examines the imposition of the modern Western notion of childhood, which is now deemed as universal, on other cultures and explores how local communities react to these impositions in various ways such as manipulation, outright rejection …
Children and Young People's Participation and Its Transformative Potential
Learning from across Countries
Av Andressa M. Gadda, E.K.M. Tisdall m. fl.
Inbunden, 2014
1098 kr
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Bringing together theories, ideas, insights and experiences of practitioners and researchers from Brazil, India, South Africa and the UK, this book explores children and young people's involvement in public action. The contributors consider the potential of children and young people's participation …
Children, Food and Identity in Everyday Life
Av A. James, A. Kjørholt m. fl.
Inbunden, 2009
1098 kr
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This book explores the significance of food practices for childhood identities, from early babyhood to middle childhood and teenage years. It examines how children and families negotiate food and eating practices; what influence the media has on these; the role institutions play; and how far class …
Surviving Teenage Motherhood
Myths and Realities
Av H. Stapleton
Inbunden, 2010
552 kr
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This book explores the experiences of pregnant teenagers, their partners, and midwives, from pregnancy realisation through the early years of motherhood. It examines changing attitudes to female sexuality and moral discourses on adolescent subjectivity especially as these pertain to teenage …
Modern Child and the Flexible Labour Market
Early Childhood Education and Care
Inbunden, 2011
537 kr
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This book sheds light on new research related to welfare state, child care policies, and small children's everyday lives in institutions in Europe. In uniting recent social childhood research, welfare perspectives and historical and comparative approaches, the book explores institutionalization as …
Twins in Society
Parents, Bodies, Space and Talk
Av K. Bacon
Inbunden, 2010
552 kr
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This book explores what it means to be a twin and to what extent twins can shape or 'escape' their identities as twins. It investigates how social expectations about twins shape twins' lives and how twins utilize their bodies, space and talk to actively display and perform their own identities.
Youth Cultures in the Age of Global Media
Av Sara Bragg, Mary Jane Kehily m. fl.
Inbunden, 2014
552 kr
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This book explores the impact of globalisation and new technologies on youth cultures around the world, from the Birmingham School to the youthscapes of South Korea. In a timely reappraisal of youth cultures in contemporary times, this collection profiles the best of new research in youth studies …
Childhood and Disability in the Nordic Countries
Being, Becoming, Belonging
Av R. Traustadóttir, B. Ytterhus m. fl.
Inbunden, 2015
1316 kr
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This collection provides a comprehensive insight into disabled children and youth in Nordic countries. It seeks to understand the experiences of children from their own perspectives and takes a multidisciplinary approach grounded in the new social studies of childhood and the Nordic relational …
Childhood, Mobile Technologies and Everyday Experiences
Changing Technologies = Changing Childhoods?
Av E. Bond
Inbunden, 2014
537 kr
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This timely volume offers an in-depth theoretical analysis of children's experiences growing up with mobile internet technologies. Drawing on up-to-date research, it explores the relationship between childhood as a social and cultural construction and the plethora of mobile internet technologies …
Childhood, Youth and Violence in Global Contexts
Research and Practice in Dialogue
Inbunden, 2014
552 kr
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Bringing together academic and practitioner points of view, this edited collection shows how violence enters into ordinary, routine practices of childhood and children's experiences. The contributing authors seek to understand how violence is enacted against children in infancy, adolescence, in …
Negotiating Childhoods
Applying a Moral Filter to Children’s Everyday Lives
Av Sam Frankel
Inbunden, 2017
1316 kr
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This book investigates how constructed representations of the child have and continue to restrict children’s opportunities to engage in moral discourses, and the implications this has on children’s everyday experiences. By considering a moral dimension to both structure and agency, the author …
Children and Borders
Av S. Spyrou, M. Christou
Inbunden, 2014
1098 kr
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This collection brings together an interdisciplinary pool of scholars to explore the relationship between children and borders with richly-documented ethnographic studies from around the world. The book provides a penetrating account of how borders affect children's lives and how children play a …
Children, Rights and Modernity in China
Raising Self-Governing Citizens
Av O. Naftali
Inbunden, 2014
552 kr
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This book is an original, ethnographic study of the emergence of a new type of thinking about children and their rights in urban China. It brings together evidence from a variety of Chinese government, academic, pedagogic and media publications, and from interviews and participant observations …
Young Citizens and Political Participation in a Digital Society
Addressing the Democratic Disconnect
Av P. Collin
Inbunden, 2015
552 kr
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Drawing on diverse theoretical perspectives, this book examines questions of youth citizenship and participation by exploring their meanings in policy, practice and youth experience. It examines young people's participation in non-government and youth-led organisations, and asks what can be done to …
Childhood with Bourdieu
Av L. Alanen, E. Brooker m. fl.
Inbunden, 2015
552 kr
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This collection is an engaging exploration of how Bourdieu's key concepts - field, habitus and capital - help us re-think the status of childhood. The authors are committed to improving the social status and well-being of childhood in social, economic and political worlds that too often fail to …
Enhancing Children's Rights
Connecting Research, Policy and Practice
Av A. Smith
Inbunden, 2015
537 kr
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This volume explores how children's rights has influenced research with children and how research can in turn shape policies and practices to enhance children's rights. The book examines the impact children's rights and Childhood Studies has had on how children are constructed and regulated …
Visual Methods with Children and Young People
Academics and Visual Industries in Dialogue
Av Dylan Yamada-Rice, Eve Stirling
Inbunden, 2015
537 kr
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This volume focuses on using visual research methods with children and young people. Featuring insights from academic experts and established professionals from visual industries, it explores a range of issues from visual ethics to children's interaction with place.
