Description |
xii, 196 pages ; 25 cm |
Contents |
Pt. 1. Key ideas and theoretical approaches in the study of children and childhood -- 1. Knowing children : theory and method in the study of childhood -- 2. What is a child? Making meaning of children and childhood -- 3. Global childhoods : children as objects of national and global concern -- 4. The Convention on the Rights of the Child and construction of the normative global child -- Pt. 2. Case studies in the meaning of children and childhood -- 5. The habitus of childhood : home, school, work -- 6. Children and disaster : 'child soldiers' and orphans -- 7. The child and the nation : case studies in the persecution and forced removal of children by the state -- 8. The value of children -- 9. Future children : identity and perfectibility |
Summary |
The book offers a wide-ranging critical analysis of approaches to children and childhood across the social sciences. Through stimulating case studies which include the experiences of child soldiers, orphans, forced child migrants, and children and biomedicine, Cregan and Cuthbert critically test the notion of the 'global child' against the lived experiences of children around the globe. Kate Cregan and Denise Cuthbert draw on and contributes to debates on children and the idea of the child in a wide range of disciplines: sociology, anthropology, education, children's studies, cultural studies, history, psychology, law and development studies. In its historical coverage of the rise of the concepts of the child and the global child, its critical engagement with the theorisation of childhood, and its detailed case studies, the book is essential reading for the study of children and childhood |
Analysis |
Australian |
Notes |
Formerly CIP. Uk |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Audience |
Tertiary/Undergraduate, Postgraduate |
Subject |
Child development -- Case studies.
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Child development.
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Child rearing -- Case studies.
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Child rearing -- Social aspects.
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Children -- Cross-cultural studies -- Case studies.
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Children -- Social conditions -- Case studies.
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Children -- Social conditions.
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Children.
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Genre/Form |
Case studies.
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Author |
Cuthbert, Denise, author
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LC no. |
2014930432 |
ISBN |
1446208990 |
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1446209008 |
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9781446208991 |
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9781446209004 |
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