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Global Childhoods - Issues and Debates (Hardcover)
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Global Childhoods - Issues and Debates (Hardcover)
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"An exciting and engagingly written book. The case studies are
intriguing and the discussion of previous theories impeccable." -
Dr. Heather Montgomery, The Open University "What is a child? Kate
Cregan and Denise Cuthbert begin this path-breaking and compelling
work with a deceptively simple question. From this seemingly
straightforward formulation, they unravel, interrogate and engage
with some of the most pressing issues related to children in the
early 21st century... This book is an absolute must for scholars in
all the fields of childhood studies." - Professor Joy Damousi,
University of Melbourne 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
the lived experiences of children around the globe. Kate Cregan and
Denise Cuthbert draw on and contributes to debates on children and
the idea of the child in a wide range of disciplines: sociology,
anthropology, education, children's studies, cultural studies,
history, psychology, law and development studies. In its historical
coverage of the rise of the concepts of the child and the global
child, its critical engagement with the theorisation of childhood,
and its detailed case studies, the book is essential reading for
the study of children and childhood.
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