Global childhoods : issues and debates / Kate Cregan and Denise Cuthbert.
Publication details: Los Angeles: Sage, 2014.Description: xii, 196 pISBN:- 9781446209004
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| 305.230 811 Q4 When boys become boys : | 305.230 954 Q4 Sociology of childhood and youth/ | 305.23 P6 Childhood/ | 305.23 Q4 Global childhoods : | 305.23 Q5 The child in society / | 305.23 Q6 The Sage handbook of early childhood research/ | 305.23 Q8 The sociology of childhood / |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-185) and index.
Knowing children: theory and method in the study of childhood -- What is a child?: Making meaning of children and childhood -- Global childhoods: children as objects of national and global concern -- The convention on the rights of the child and the construction of the normative global child -- The habitus of childhood: home, school, work -- Children and disaster: 'child soldiers' and orphans -- The child and the nation: case studies in the persecution and forced removal of children by the state -- The value of children -- Future children: identity and perfectibility.
A critical exploration of the constructions of childhood across the social sciences. It questions common global Northern conceptions of childhood and children by providing a wider lens through which to challenge inherent Eurocentrism.
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