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Childhood, Youth and Activism
Considering the meanings of activism by and for children and young people in the twenty-first century, this edited collection is a valuable resource for scholars, educators and practitioners interested in the intersections of childhood and youth studies, activism and movements for social change.
The Social Construction of Adolescence in Contemporaneity
Expanding this area of youth studies across specific contexts, The Social Construction of Adolescence in Contemporaneity offers new interpretive possibilities to deepen the understanding of issues that concern young people.
Sociological Research and Urban Children and Youth
Recognizing the potential research with and about young people can have in decision making on multiple levels of policy and service provision, this book provides a key foundation for considering the influence of urban environments on young people, and vice versa.
Parents in the Spotlight
Children and parents have become a focus of debates on ‘new social risks’ in European welfare states. Policymaking elites have converged in defining such risks, and they have outlined new forms of parenting support to better safeguard children and activate their potential. Increasingly, parents are suspected of falling short of public expectations. Contributors to this special issue scrutinize this shift towards parenting as performance and analyse recent forms of parenting support.
Children, Youth and Time
Providing fresh insight at a crucial moment of global disruption, Children, Youth and Time reflects on the complex concept of time as perceived and experienced by children and young people in relevant societal and generational contexts.
Child Maltreatment Fatalities in the United States
This book focuses on the prevention of child abuse and neglect deaths in the U.S. In 2013 1,520 children died from maltreatment. This book defines child maltreatment fatalities (CMFs) and discusses the prevalence of deaths in the U.S. over the last several decades. It addresses the known risk factors for maltreatment deaths including child, parent, the parent-child relationship, and household risk factors. The main focus of the book addresses the responses and interventions that have been put in place in order to prevent CMFs: the child welfare profession, child death review teams, safe haven laws, criminal justice responses, public education, and new, federal efforts in the U.S. to reduce CMFs in the U.S. The book finishes by making recommendations for researchers, practitioners, and decision-makers about how to prevent fatal maltreatment among children in the U.S.
The Routledge International Handbook of Valuation and Society
The Routledge International Handbook of Valuation and Society builds on the growing research interest in practices of valuation throughout contemporary society, providing an up-to-date overview of the different facets of research in the sociology of valuation. The handbook is divided into five major sections with attention to the treatment of valuation in major areas of sociological theory, as well as its key concepts, discourses, and approaches: Part I: Theoretical perspectives Part II: Central valuation practices in societal spheres Part III: Cross-cutting valuation practices Part IV: Valuation and societal change Part V: Reflections Together, the chapters in this book characterize distinc...
Dracula and the Gothic in Literature, Pop Culture and the Arts
This volume brings together fourteen articles that reappraise the productivity of Stoker’s Dracula and the strong influence it still exerts on today’s generations. The volume explores various multimodal and multimedia adaptations of the book, by critically examining its literary, cinematic, theatrical, televised and artistic versions. In so doing, it reassesses the origins, evolution, imagery, mythology, theory and criticism of Gothic fiction and of the Gothic (sub)culture. The volume is innovative in that it congregates various angles to the Gothic phenomenon, providing an overview of the interdisciplinary relationships between different cultural, artistic and creative reworkings of the Gothic in general and of Stoker’s legacy in particular.
Recht und Sorge
Durch Rechte sollen Kinder sowohl geschützt als auch beteiligt werden. Sarah Mühlbacher zeigt, inwiefern sich rechtliche Reformprojekte immer wieder in rechtliche Regelungen verkehren, die die Perspektiven und Lebensrealitäten von Kindern unsichtbar machen. Ihre soziologische Studie analysiert reformerische, gegenreformerische und transformatorische Positionen in den Diskursen um zentrale Reformen seit den 1960er Jahren und verdeutlicht, welche Stimmen kein Gehör fanden. Sie rekonstruiert die strukturelle Abwertung der Sorge, die Naturalisierung von Kindheitskonzepten und die Hierarchisierung von Differenzen in rechtlichen Diskursen, Verfahrens- und Subjektivierungsweisen in kapitalistischen Gesellschaften als Schlüssel zum Verständnis dieser paradoxalen Konstellation. Das Buch endet mit einem Ausblick auf eine radikale Transformation von Rechten in Beziehung zu Politiken radikaler Sorge.
