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Childhood Studies
What does it mean to think of children as social subjects and how should we go about studying childhood in society? Childhood is a key site where children come to understand themselves as particular kinds of people, not only as individuals but also as members of social and cultural groups. This compelling and accessible book explores how immature humans enter into political, economic, social and cultural life. Integrating key theories from a range of disciplines, Karen Wells provides a set of analytical tools to explore how culture, society, politics and economics shape childhood and children's lives. She explains how childhood is not only culturally shaped, but also formed at the intersection of politics and economics. At this intersection between governing practices and the affordances of children's bodies, young subjects are made. Childhood Studies will be essential reading for students and scholars in childhood and youth studies and related disciplines, and for anyone who wants to understand the impacts of social inequality on children and what it means to be a child in the contemporary world.
Childhood in Global Perspective
This compelling new book offers a unique global perspective on children’s lives throughout the world. It shows how the notion of childhood is being radically re-shaped, in part as a consequence of globalization. Taking an engaging historical and comparative approach, the book discusses wide-ranging issues such as children and war, child labour and young people’s activism around the globe. Important themes considered include: How children are constituted as raced, classed and gendered subjects; How family policy results in some kinds of family being labelled as normal and others as deviant, and how this impacts in children; How children’s involvement in war is connected to the globalization of capitalism and organised crime; How school and work operate as sites for the governing of childhood. This book will be of great value to students and scholars in the fields of sociology, social policy and development studies. It will also be a valuable companion to practitioners of international development and social work, as well as to anyone interested in childhood in the contemporary world.
Karen Wells
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Childhood in a Global Perspective
The second edition of this compelling and popular book offers a unique global perspective on children’s lives throughout the world. It shows how the notion of childhood is being radically re-shaped, in part as a consequence of globalization. Taking an engaging historical and comparative approach, the book explores social issues such as how children are constituted as raced, classed and gendered subjects; how children’s involvement in war is connected to the globalization of capitalism and organized crime; and how school and work operate as sites for the governing of childhood. The book discusses wide-ranging topics including children’s rights, the family, children and war, child labour...
The Visual Cultures of Childhood
Some of the most iconic images of the twentieth century are of children: Dorothea Lange’s Migrant Mother, depicting farm worker Frances Owens Thompson with three of her children; six-year-old Ruby Bridges, flanked by U.S. marshals, walking down the steps of an all-white elementary school she desegregated; Huỳnh Công Út’s photograph of nine-year-old Phan Thi Kim Phuc fleeing a South Vietnamese napalm bombing. These iconic images with their juxtaposition of the innocent (in the sense of not culpable) figure of the child and the guilty perpetrators of violence (both structural and interpersonal) are ‘arresting’. The power of the image of the child to arrest the spectator, to demand a response from her has given the representation of children a central place in the history of visual culture for social reform. This book analyses a range of forms and genres from social reform documentary through feature films and onto small and mobile media to address two core questions: What difference does it make to the message who the producer is? and How has the place of children and youth changed in visual public culture?
Blessed Tragedy
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The Bloomsbury Handbook of Theories in Childhood Studies
The Bloomsbury Handbook of Theories in Childhood Studies brings together an international group of childhood studies scholars who work with a range of critical theories. It speaks to both scholars and students by addressing questions such as how childhoods are diversely constructed and how children's experiences can be better understood. The volume draws together a diversity of theoretical perspectives from the social sciences and humanities such as critical race studies, disability studies, posthumanism, feminism, politics, decolonialism, queer theory and postcolonialism to generate a much-needed conversation about how to move childhood studies forward as a grounded field of research. The volume is subdivided into three sections - subjectivities, relationalities, and structures - each of which addresses different but interrelated approaches to childhood studies theorization. This handbook will be an essential text not just for childhood studies researchers, but for all those interested in theorizing what childhood is, what work it does and who children are.
Routledge Handbook of Childhood Studies and Global Development
This handbook explores how global development agendas of economic development influence children's lives. From established scholars and early career researchers, this book will be an essential reference for policymakers, practitioners, researchers and students across childhood studies, education, geography, sociology, and global development.
Even with My Knees Knocking I Will Follow God's Call
Following God's call can be scary. We're asked to step out, take risks, and try different things. But I've decided - no matter how fearful stepping out might be, I am going to follow God's call. I've often felt my knees knocking as I stepped out to follow God. I've felt incompetent, uncertain, or a myriad of other things. I have many reasons for not following through as quickly as I could. Chapters in this book include "Put Away The Hammer," "Is It Too Risky To Risk?" "Spiritual Eating Disorders," "Know Thine Enemy," and more life changing chapters. This is an easy read that stirs the heart. God has great plans for your life. Go forward in confidence and trust. Say goodbye to fear and hello to faith!
Heart of Wisdom
Heart of Wisdom is a book designed to empower the believer to overcome life's many obstacles by the wisdom of God. This book will locate where you are spiritually and reveal to the reader why they may not be progressing in their walk with God. It is intended that wisdom clear the path to a blessed outcome. As you read Heart of Wisdom eventually you will come to your page with your issue and God will speak to you. He will bring in His light and truth. Let wisdom pave the way through your circumstance as you honor, receive and delight in Wisdom's counsel, instruction and perhaps correction. Wisdom has a path you see, and she is calling to you. Do you hear her? She is entreating you right now to draw near. She calls and calls from the rooftops of life saying, "Listen, for I will speak of excellent things." (Prov. 8:6, NKJV)
