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Almost a third of the 4 billion people living in urban areas today
are children, according to the United Nations. By 2050, 70 percent
of the world’s children will live in cities. Yet how has recent
sociological work engaged with children and youth living in cities
around the world? What does a focus on children and youth in an
urban context mean for researchers working within a variety of
sociological frameworks? How have children’s and youth’s
experiences shaped and been shaped by the diverse urban scapes and
contexts in which they live? Sociological Research and Urban
Children and Youth brings together cutting-edge work that addresses
children’s and youth’s urban living experiences as well as the
social, political, and ecological realities that accompany this.
Featuring contributions from Australia, Canada, the U.K., and the
United States, the chapters critically engage with core analytical
and conceptual issues ranging from relationality to citizenship and
belonging, to power, structure, and agency. Recognizing the
potential research with and about young people can have in decision
making on multiple levels of policy and service provision,
Sociological Research and Urban Children and Youth provides a key
foundation for considering the influence of urban environments on
young people, and vice versa.
It was 2006, and eight hundred soldiers from the Canadian Armed
Forces (CAF) base in pseudonymous "Armyville," Canada, were
scheduled to deploy to Kandahar. Many students in the Armyville
school district were destined to be affected by this and several
subsequent deployments. These deployments, however, represented
such a new and volatile situation that the school district
lacked--as indeed most Canadians lacked--the understanding required
for an optimum organizational response. Growing Up in Armyville
provides a close-up look at the adolescents who attended Armyville
High School (AHS) between 2006 and 2010. How did their mental
health compare with that of their peers elsewhere in Canada? How
were their lives affected by the Afghanistan mission--at home, at
school, among their friends, and when their parents returned with
post-traumatic stress disorder? How did the youngsters cope with
the stress? What did their efforts cost them? Based on questions
from the National Longitudinal Survey of Children and Youth,
administered to all youth attending AHS in 2008, and on in-depth
interviews with sixty-one of the youth from CAF families, this book
provides some answers. It also documents the partnership that
occurred between the school district and the authors' research
team. Beyond its research findings, this pioneering book considers
the past, present, and potential role of schools in supporting
children who have been affected by military deployments. It also
assesses the broader human costs to CAF families of their enforced
participation in the volatile overseas missions of the twenty-first
century.
The Sociology of Childhood and Youth Studies in Canada explores
ways to effectively conduct research in academic and non-academic
communities and to engage youth in our society. Featuring material
from the Children, Childhood, and Youth Research Cluster’s
sessions of June 2015, this timely reader discusses the
relationships between researchers and youth participants, the
effectiveness of arts-based methodologies, and the impact of
literature, consumerism, and inclusive education policies on the
development of social constructions of childhood. Later sections
explore child poverty, alternative learning environments, care
facilities, and the rights of children and youth. Considering these
topics within various frameworks that draw on race, gender, and
disability, this collection will appeal to senior level
undergraduate students of sociology, women’s and gender studies,
child and youth studies, child and youth care, and early childhood
education.
Social inequality. Selective political attention. Insufficient
funding and access. Caring for Children provides a comprehensive,
interdisciplinary examination of the crisis in care for Canadian
children and their caregivers. The contributors explore the complex
issues surrounding caring for children, analyzing the connections
between services and programs to reveal how child care, parental
leave, informal care, live-in caregiver programs, and child tax
benefits affect the well-being of Canadian children and their
families. They affirm the necessity of questioning political
attitudes and arrangements and ask what social movements can do to
promote positive change in approaches to the care of children.
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