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Levison, D. (Ed), Maynes, M. J. (Ed), Vavrus, F. (Ed) (2021)
This textbook showcases innovative approaches to the interdisciplinary field of childhood and youth studies, examining how young people in a wide range of contemporary and …
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Henry-Lee, A. (2020)
This book examines childhood in four Caribbean SIDS (Barbados, Jamaica, Haiti and St. Lucia). Through the analysis of primary and secondary data, the author reveals that children …
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Takada, A. (2020)
While studies of San children have attained the peculiar status of having delineated the prototype for hunter-gatherer childhood, relatively few serious ethnographic studies of …
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Tsaliki, L. (Ed), Chronaki, D. (Ed) (2020)
This book revolves around neoliberal notions governing children and youth – a trend that permeates and dominates contemporary perceptions of "the young." In fact, given how the …
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Garvis, S. (Ed), Harju-Luukkainen, H. (Ed), Sheridan, S. (Ed), Williams, P. (Ed) (2019)
Largely as a result of social policies and cultural factors, the Nordic countries continually score high in lifestyle measures, quality of life and children’s outcomes. This book …
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Murray, L., Cortés-Morales, S. (2019)
This book offers a critical and comprehensive analysis of children’s mobilities by focusing on its interdependent, imagined and relational aspects. In doing so, it challenges …
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Creasy, R., Corby, F. (2019)
This book explores the links between recent reports of increasing levels of unhappiness and mental health problems amongst children and young people, and changes within childhood …
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Hodgson, N., Ramaekers, S. (2019)
This book uses contemporary film to articulate a philosophical account of raising children. It forms part of a revaluation of the parent as a pedagogical figure, which stands in …
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Habib, S. (Ed), Ward, M. R. M. (Ed) (2019)
This book contains empirical research from established and emerging scholars who draw upon interdisciplinary perspectives of space and place in order to investigate young people’s …
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Mascheroni, G. (Ed), Holloway, D. (Ed) (2019)
The Internet of Toys (IoToys) is a developing market within our Internet of Things (IoT) ecosystem. This book examines the rise of internet-connected toys and aims to anticipate …
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Wilkinson, J. (2019)
This book is about friendships in public settings today. Wilkinson examines friendships in the public settings of neighbourhoods, civil society and at work. Identifying the unique …
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Marcus, G. (2019)
This book presents the untold stories of Gypsy and Traveller girls living in Scotland. Drawing on accounts of the girls’ lives and offering space for their voices to be heard, the …
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Frankel, S. (Ed), McNamee, S. (Ed) (2019)
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 …
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Duncan, M. (2019)
There have long been doubts within social work about the viability of reconciling participatory practice with the statutory power that comes hand-in-hand with child protection …
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Ideland, M. (2019)
While few could dispute the need for Environmental and Sustainability Education (ESE) for children and young people, this book explores the problems inherent in this educational …
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Malone, K. (2018)
This book elaborates the need, in a rapidly urbanizing world, for recognition of the ecological communities we inhabit in cities and for the development of an ethics for all …
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O'Malley, A. (Ed) (2018)
The essays in this volume offer fresh and innovative considerations both of how children interacted with the world of print, and of how childhood circulated in the literary …
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Vakaoti, P. (2018)
This book, uncovers the lived experiences of street-frequenting young people in Fiji. Typically viewed as ‘out of place’, these young people disturb what it means to be young and …
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Baraldi, C. (Ed), Cockburn, T. (Ed) (2018)
Focusing on children's citizenship, participation and rights, this edited collection draws on the work of a number of leading scholars in the sociology of childhood. The …
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Assmuth, L. (Ed), Hakkarainen, M. (Ed), Lulle, A. (Ed), Siim, P. M. (Ed) (2018)
This collection explores mobile childhoods: from Latvia and Estonia to Finland; from Latvia to the United Kingdom; from Russia to Finland; and cyclical mobility by the Roma …
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