Overview
- Draws together a variety of contexts of contemporary childhoods
- Provides multidisciplinary perspectives that combines law, education, thanatology, sociology, international development and more
- Features a timely chapter on Brexit and Childhood
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About this book
This edited collection draws together a variety of contexts of contemporary childhoods, linking thinking from Canada with spaces in the UK and Sweden. The contributors explores the discourses that shape those childhoods and how this then impacts on the way that children come to experience their everyday lives.
The aim of the book is not to reflect the entirety of childhood experience but to draw off particular expertise that shine a light into partial, yet significant areas of children’s lives, with the contributions engaging with a range of voices and perspectives. As a result, the collection advocates the need for childhood studies to zoom out from a predisposition to isolate the child, which has been seen as a necessary part of conceptualizing childhood. As a result, the book focuses on a ‘context’ for childhoods through a consideration of both structure and agency, and through this seeks to recognise the interconnected nature of the arenas within which children live their everyday lives. A range of themes are covered, including the education system, identity within the home, suicide in communities, and younger children’s 'political' engagement and sense of belonging.
Contextualising Childhoods will be of interest to students and scholars across a range of disciplines, including sociology, law, and education.
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Table of contents (18 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Part I
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Front Matter
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Part II
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Front Matter
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Reviews
“This collection takes current academic debate forward via the wide range of empirical case studies … which successfully apply knowledge to understand practices and discourses in and on, from and for, children in society.” (Federico Farini, University of Northampton, UK)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Sam Frankel is Creative Director of EquippingKids (UK) and Assistant Professor at King’s University College, Western University, Canada.
Sally McNamee is an Associate Professor at King’s University College, Western University, Canada.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Contextualizing Childhoods
Book Subtitle: Growing Up in Europe and North America
Editors: Sam Frankel, Sally McNamee
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-94926-0
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-94925-3Published: 12 October 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-06938-4Published: 31 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-94926-0Published: 29 September 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 279
Number of Illustrations: 6 b/w illustrations
Topics: Childhood, Adolescence and Society, Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging, Sociology of Citizenship