Books in the Studies in Childhood and Youth series

This book offers a practical, methodological guide to conducting arts-based research with children by drawing on five years of the authors' experience carrying out arts-based research with children in Australia and the UK.

This edited volume concerns childhood throughout South America after the 1990s, a period and territory of special complexity marked by the beginning-or intensification of-political neoliberalisation throughout the region.

This edited volume develops critical discussions of prominent methodological approaches in participatory youth research. The collection brings together perspectives of authors from throughout Nordic countries, all with comprehensive experience of qualitative research methods involving young people.

This book examines childhood in four Caribbean SIDS (Barbados, Jamaica, Haiti and St. Lucia).

1. Introduction: Narrating Contemporary Childhood; Lisa Moran, Kathy Reilly and Bernadine Brady.- Part 1. Narrations of Home, Care and Identity.- 2. Young People Narrating the Meaning of Homelessness and Home; Paula Mayock and Sarah Parker.- 3. The Experiences of Young Carers in Northern Ireland: Negotiating Pathways to a Positive Sense of Self-identity - Narratives of Resilience, Risk and identity; Marlene McGibbon.- 4. Narrating Childhood in the Present: Growing Sideways with Emily; Rachel Thomson.- Part 2. Recreations, Place and Community.- 5. Narratives of Recreation and Identity Development Among Muslim Teens; Orla McGarry.- 6. The Do-ers and the ''Do Nothings'': (Non) Participation in Community, Recreation and Place among Young People in Manchester, UK; Aimee Harragan.- 7. Understanding Community, Culture and Recreation as Resilience Resources for Indigenous Young People; Darlene Wall, Linda Liebenberg, Janice Ikeda, Doreen Davis-Ward, and youth participants from Spaces & Places, Port Hope Simpson.- 8. Exploring Childhood in Ireland: Narrating the Places and Spaces of Everyday Life; Kathy Reilly and TJ Hughes.- Part 3. Narrative and Educational Spaces.- 9.  Queering Understandings of How Matter Comes to Matter in the Baby Room; Jayne Osgood.- 10. Authoring Imaginative Selves Through Digital Narratives in the Science Classroom; Elizabeth M. Walsh.- 11. Narrating the Learning Ecosystem: Knowledge, Environment and Relationships for Participatory and Principled Design of Educational Technology for Childhood and Youth; Tony Hall, Cornelia Connolly, Gerry Mac Ruairc, Sally McHugh, Ann Marie Wade, E├¡lis Flanagan and Paul Flynn.- Part 4. Methods for Narrating Childhoods: Reflexivity, Environment and Biographies.- 12. "I''d Keep Them Tidy": Domesticity, Work and Nostalgia in Girls'' Imagined Futures Described in Essays Written by 11-year-olds in 1969; Virginia Morrow and Jane Elliot.- 13. The Inextricable Linking of Methods and Narratives: Researchers, Children, and Adults'' Stories of Childhood; Ann Phoenix.- 14. Topological Mapping: Studying Children''s Experiential Worlds through Spatial Narratives; Kirsi Pauliina Kallio.- 15. How Adults Tell: Using a Biographical Narrative Interviewing Methodology to Explore Adults'' Experiences of Sexual Abuse in Childhood; Joseph Mooney.- 16. Rights Based Narrative Research: Empowerment of Children and Young People Experiencing Impacts of Trauma; Patricia McNamara.- Part 5. Conclusion.- 17. Concluding Comments: Challenges, Opportunities, and Future Directions in Narrative Inquiry; Lisa Moran, Kathy Reilly and Bernadine Brady.

Grounded in the Foucauldian literature on governmentality and drawing on a broad range of disciplines, this book examines the government of childhood in the West from the early modern period to the present. The book deals with three key time-periods and examines shifts in the conceptualization and regulation of childhood and child-rearing.

Will the future be a climate disaster? Will biotechnologies bring huge improvements to lifespan? Predictions vary, but children's status as human embodiments of the future puts them at the centre of attempts to shape the world and the discipline of childhood studies can therefore make a critical and creative contribution to future-making.

While the fantasy world of 'tween' offers girls a space to fashion a young, feminine identity it has been widely argued that the consumer-media's messages pressure tween girls to consume and adopt highly sexualised appearances and behaviours.

This book considers the largely under-recognised contribution that young writers have made to life writing genres such as memoir, letter writing and diaries, as well as their innovative use of independent and social media.

This book follows the transnational lives of children growing up as British Bangladeshi individuals in multicultural London. Exploring the array of international events, communities and forces which influence them, Zeitlyn examines the socialisation practices among British Bangladeshi families and how this shapes their childhood and identities.

This book explores what it means to be a twin and to what extent twins can shape or 'escape' their identities as twins. It investigates how social expectations about twins shape twins' lives and how twins utilize their bodies, space and talk to actively display and perform their own identities.

Drawing on diverse theoretical perspectives, this book examines questions of youth citizenship and participation by exploring their meanings in policy, practice and youth experience. It examines young people's participation in non-government and youth-led organisations, and asks what can be done to bridge the democratic disconnect.

Bringing together theories, ideas, insights and experiences of practitioners and researchers from Brazil, India, South Africa and the UK, this book explores children and young people's involvement in public action. The contributors consider the potential of children and young people's participation to be transformative.

This timely volume offers an in-depth theoretical analysis of children's experiences growing up with mobile internet technologies. Drawing on up-to-date research, it explores the relationship between childhood as a social and cultural construction and the plethora of mobile internet technologies which have become ubiquitous in everyday life.

This book is an original, ethnographic study of the emergence of a new type of thinking about children and their rights in urban China. It brings together evidence from a variety of Chinese government, academic, pedagogic and media publications, and from interviews and participant observations conducted in schools and homes in Shanghai, China.

This book explores the impact of globalisation and new technologies on youth cultures around the world, from the Birmingham School to the youthscapes of South Korea. In a timely reappraisal of youth cultures in contemporary times, this collection profiles the best of new research in youth studies written by leading scholars in the field.

Drawing on children's narratives about their everyday life this book explores how children come to understand the process of socialization at home, at school and in the neighbourhood as an embodied and biographical experience.

Drawing on ethnographic accounts of children's media-referenced play, this book explores children's engagement with media cultures and playground experiences, analyzing a range of issues such as learning, fantasy, communication and identity.

This book explores the relationship between children and citizenship, analyzing international perspectives on citizenship and human rights and developing new methods for facilitating the recognition of children as participating agents within society.

This book explores the extent to which children engage with questions of morality, arguing that they are active members of society who have both the capacity and understanding to engage with discourses of morality.

This book presents an integral, cross-cultural reflection on the social reality of children's rights and citizenship, giving an insight into new perspectives on the history and different concepts of children's rights in a contextualized and localized manner.

This book explores the experiences of pregnant teenagers, their partners, and midwives, from pregnancy realisation through the early years of motherhood. It examines changing attitudes to female sexuality and moral discourses on adolescent subjectivity especially as these pertain to teenage motherhood.

The collection will be of interest to students and scholars across a range of disciplines including childhood studies, sociology, politics and social policy, as well as policy makers and practitioners interested in the citizenship, rights and participation of children.

This collection explores mobile childhoods: from Latvia and Estonia to Finland;

Disclosing Childhoods offers a critical account of knowledge production in childhood studies. The book argues for the need to be reflexive about the knowledge practices of the field and to scrutinize the role of researchers in disclosing certain childhoods rather than others. A relational lens is used to critique the ongoing fixation of childhood studies with the unitary child-agent and to re-introduce the question of ontology in knowledge production. The author provides a critical account of childhood studies¿ trajectory, as well as exploring the key concepts of voice, agency and participation, illustrating the potential of a reflexive stance towards knowledge production. Drawing on poststructuralist and posthumanist thinking, each of these concepts is critiqued for its conceptual limits while productive avenues are offered to reconfigure their utility. Spyrou also addresses the ethics and politics of knowledge production and considers key emerging insights whichcan contribute towards the development of a more reflexive and critical childhood studies.Students and scholars across a range of disciplines, including childhood studies, anthropology, sociology and geography, will find this book of interest, as well as those interested in qualitative research methodology and social theory.