Children and Youth as Subjects, Objects, Agents - Innovative Approaches to Research Across Space and Time (Paperback, 1st ed. 2021)

This textbook showcases innovative approaches to the interdisciplinary field of childhood and youth studies, examining how young people in a wide range of contemporary and historical contexts around the globe live their young lives as subjects, objects, and agents. The diverse contributions examine how children and youth are simultaneously constructed: as individual subjects through social processes and culturally-specific discourses; as objects of policy intervention and other adult power plays; and also as active agents who act on their world and make meaning even amidst conditions of social, political, and economic marginalization. In addition, the book is centrally engaged with questions about how researchers take into consideration children's and young people's own conceptions of themselves and how we conceptualize child and youth potentials for agency at different ages and stages of growing up. Each chapter discusses substantive research but also engages in self-reflection about methodology, positionality, and/or disciplinarity, thus making the volume especially useful for teaching. This book will be of interest to students and scholars across a range of disciplines, including childhood studies, youth studies, girls' studies, development studies, research methods, sociology, anthropology, education, history, geography, public policy, cultural studies, gender and women's studies and global studies.

General

Imprint:	Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Country of origin:	Switzerland
Release date:	April 2021
First published:	2021
Editors:	Deborah Levison • Mary Jo Maynes • Frances Vavrus
Dimensions:	235 x 155 x 22mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	277
Edition:	1st ed. 2021
ISBN-13:	978-3-03-063631-9
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > General Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Central government > Central government policies Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social groups & communities > Age groups > General Books > History > General Promotions
LSN:	3-03-063631-3
Barcode:	9783030636319

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