Books in the Relationships and Resources series

Provides an insight into the lived experience of mothers who are the focus of public concern and intervention, yet all too often have their voices and experiences overlooked. This book also explores how they make sense of their lives with their children and families, and position themselves within a context of inequality and vulnerability.

What does it mean to be a sister or a brother, and are such relationships born or made? This book explores the special place that siblings occupy in the lives of children and young people, providing insights into sibling identity and relationships. It draws on social constructionist and psychodynamic perspectives.

The introduction of compulsory citizenship education into the national curriculum has generated a plethora of interests in the politics of childhood and youth. This book also explores the teenagers' acts of and engagement with citizenship in their local communities and examines the role of citizenship education in creating responsible citizens.

Explores the concepts and perspectives that guide research and the methods used to explore change during the last half of the twentieth century and the twenty first century. This book highlights the complexities of continuities alongside change, the importance of the perspectives that shape investigation, and the need to engage with situated data.

Draws upon theories of time and space to consider how informal care is woven into the fabric of everyday lives and is shaped by social and economic inequalities and opportunities. This book explores contrasting social and economic contexts of informal care in different parts of the world. It looks at different themes and dynamics of caring.

Provides an overview of the emergence of different understandings of ethnicities, identities and family forms across a number of ethnic groups, family types, and national boundaries. This book is of interest to students and scholars of migration, transnationalism, families and globalisation.

Care shapes people's everyday lives and relationships and caring relations and practices influence the economies of different societies. This interdisciplinary book takes a nuanced and context-sensitive approach to exploring caring relationships, identities and practices within and across a variety of cultural, familial, geographical and institutional arenas.

Explores the concepts and perspectives that guide research and the methods used to explore change during the last half of the twentieth century and the twenty first century. This book highlights the complexities of continuities alongside change, the importance of the perspectives that shape investigation, and the need to engage with situated data.

Whilst 'parenting' is a thoroughly cultured product, it is often treated as a transparent set of skills. Exploring points of accommodation and tension between parenting as defined by professionals, and as experienced by parents themselves, this book investigates the relationship between being a parent and the expertise around parenting.

Contributors to this international and interdisciplinary collection interrogate notions of mixedness and mixing, and challenge stereotypical assumptions. They advance debates in the field through illuminating the complexity of specific historical trajectories, administrative practices and lived experience.

Care shapes people's everyday lives and relationships and caring relations and practices influence the economies of different societies. This interdisciplinary book takes a nuanced and context-sensitive approach to exploring caring relationships, identities and practices within and across a variety of cultural, familial, geographical and institutional arenas.

Whilst 'parenting' is a thoroughly cultured product, it is often treated as a transparent set of skills. Exploring points of accommodation and tension between parenting as defined by professionals, and as experienced by parents themselves, this book investigates the relationship between being a parent and the expertise around parenting.