Global childhoods : issues and debates / Kate Cregan and Denise Cuthbert.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cregan, Kate, author.

Cuthbert, Denise, author.

Series:

Sage knowledge.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Child development.

Children.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (196 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Thousand Oaks, California : Sage Publications, 2014.

Summary:

Global Childhoods draws on the authors' interdisciplinary backgrounds and original research in the fields of embodiment, theorisations of childhood, children's policy, child placement and adoption, and family formation. The book critically demonstrates how following from the modern construction of childhood which emerged unevenly from the late eighteenth century, the twentieth century saw the emergence of the conception of the normative global child, a figure finally enshrined in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. The book offers a wide-ranging critical analysis of approaches to children and childhood across the social sciences. Through stimulating case studies which include the experiences of child soldiers, orphans, forced child migrants, and children and biomedicine, Cregan and Cuthbert critically test the notion of the 'global child' against ...

Contents:

part one. Key ideas and theoretical approaches in the study of children and childhood

part two. Case studies in the meaning of children and Childhood.

Notes:

Part of the SAGE Knowledge collection.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-185) and index.

Description based on MARC record for print version.

Other Format:

Print version :

ISBN:

9781473909656 (ebook) :

OCLC:

1017732278

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.