![Endangered and Transformative Childhood in Caribbean Small Island Developing States]( "Endangered and Transformative Childhood in Caribbean Small Island Developing States")
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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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![The Ecology of Playful Childhood]( "The Ecology of Playful Childhood")
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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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![Discourses of Anxiety over Childhood and Youth across Cultures]( "Discourses of Anxiety over Childhood and Youth across Cultures")
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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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![Nordic Families, Children and Early Childhood Education]( "Nordic Families, Children and Early Childhood Education")
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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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![Children's Mobilities]( "Children's Mobilities")
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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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![Philosophical Presentations of Raising Children]( "Philosophical Presentations of Raising Children")
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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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![Identities, Youth and Belonging]( "Identities, Youth and Belonging")
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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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![The Internet of Toys]( "The Internet of Toys")
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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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![Taming Childhood?]( "Taming Childhood?")
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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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![The Public Life of Friendship]( "The Public Life of Friendship")
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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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![Gypsy and Traveller Girls]( "Gypsy and Traveller Girls")
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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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![Contextualizing Childhoods]( "Contextualizing Childhoods")
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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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![Participation in Child Protection]( "Participation in Child Protection")
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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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![The Eco-Certified Child]( "The Eco-Certified Child")
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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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![Children in the Anthropocene]( "Children in the Anthropocene")
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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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![Street-Frequenting Young People in Fiji]( "Street-Frequenting Young People in Fiji")
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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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![Theorising Childhood]( "Theorising Childhood")
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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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![Literary Cultures and Eighteenth-Century Childhoods]( "Literary Cultures and Eighteenth-Century Childhoods")
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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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![Translocal Childhoods and Family Mobility in East and North Europe]( "Translocal Childhoods and Family Mobility in East and North Europe")
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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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![Friendship and Diversity]( "Friendship and Diversity")
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Vincent, C., Neal, S., Iqbal, H. (2018)
Do people make friends with those who are culturally and socially different to themselves? Friendship and Diversity explores the social relationships of adults and children living …
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