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Childhood with Bourdieu

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Authors:
  1. Leena Alanen

    1. Department of Education, University of Jyväskylä, Finland

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  2. Liz Brooker

    1. Institute of Education, University of London, UK

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  3. Berry Mayall

    1. Institute of Education, University of London, UK

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Part of the book series: Studies in Childhood and Youth (SCY)

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Introduction

    • Leena Alanen, Liz Brooker, Berry Mayall
    Pages 1-12

  3. Intergenerational Relations: Embodiment over Time

    • Berry Mayall
    Pages 13-33

  4. Cultural Capital in the Preschool Years: Can the State ‘Compensate’ for the Family?

    • Liz Brooker
    Pages 34-56

  5. Between Young Children and Adults: Practical Logic in Families’ Lives

    • Pascale Garnier
    Pages 57-77

  6. Early Childhood Education as a Social Field: Everyday Struggles and Practices of Dominance

    • Mari Vuorisalo, Leena Alanen
    Pages 78-98

  7. ‘A Fish in Water?’ Social Lives and Local Connections: The Case of Young People Who Travel Outside Their Local Areas to Secondary School

    • Abigail Knight
    Pages 99-119

  8. Childhood in Africa between Local Powers and Global Hierarchies

    • Géraldine André, Mathieu Hilgers
    Pages 120-141

  9. ‘Those Who Are Good to Us, We Call Them Friends’: Social Support and Social Networks for Children Growing up in Poverty in Rural Andhra Pradesh, India

    • Virginia Morrow, Uma Vennam
    Pages 142-164

  10. Struggling to Support: Genesis of the Practice of Using Support Persons in the Finnish Child Welfare Field

    • Johanna Moilanen, Johanna Kiili, Leena Alanen
    Pages 165-187

  11. Decision-making Processes in Review Meetings for Children in Care: A Bourdieusian Analysis

    • Karen Winter
    Pages 188-212

  12. Back Matter

    Pages 213-215
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About this book

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 accord children respect for their human rights.

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“The book will be well received by researchers seeking to become familiar with Bourdieu’s work. I am also convinced that it will become an important point of reference for scholars already familiar with the application of Bourdieu’s thinking. Alanen, Brooker and Berry’s edited collection will enable readers to better address and situate the complex issues children face in a quickly changing socio-technical world.” (Christina Rebekka Ergler, Children's Geographies, Vol. 15 (1), March, 2017)

Authors and Affiliations

  • Department of Education, University of Jyväskylä, Finland

    Leena Alanen

  • Institute of Education, University of London, UK

    Liz Brooker, Berry Mayall

About the authors

Géraldine André, National Fund for Scientific Research, Belgium Mathieu Hilgers, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium Johanna Kiili, University of Jyväskylä, Finland Abigail Knight, Institute of Education, University of London, UK Johanna Moilanen, University of Jyväskylä, Finland Virginia Morrow, University of Oxford, UK Uma Vennam, Sri Padmavati Mahila Visvavidyalam, India Mari Vuorisalo, University of Jyväskylä, Finland Karen Winter, Queen's University Belfast, Northern Ireland

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