Revisiting Contemporary Childhoods

International Research on Children's Voice and Agency
1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-1-4473-7179-3
Verlag: Bristol University Press

Buch, Englisch, 214 Seiten, Format (B × H): 162 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 470 g

What does it mean to put children's voices at the centre and truly recognise their capacity for change?

Through rich, interdisciplinary research spanning Australia, Poland, Spain, Slovakia, India and the UK, this book illuminates how children actively negotiate, resist and reshape the structures around them. It champions children’s agency as central to reimagining childhoods beyond western-dominated narratives, advocating for child-led theorisation and practice.

Offering a timely and critical examination of the tensions shaping children’s lives – across societies, systems and settings – it challenges readers to rethink the dominant idealisations of childhood, pushing forward new conversations about childhood in the 21st century.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sinha, Pallawi

Richards, Sarah

Stella, Marianna

Weitere Mitwirkende

Bacon, Kate

Smitkova, Hana

Ie, Judite

Jamis, Nicole M

O'Riordan, Zoe

Lessner Listiakova, Ivana

Wroblewski, Maciej

Hammond, Sara

Crafter, Sarah

Motzkau, Johana

Rajan, Vijitha

Leader, Carolyn

Clark, Alison

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Altersgruppen Kinder- und Jugendsoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Staatsbürgerkunde, Staatsbürgerschaft, Zivilgesellschaft
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Menschenrechte, Bürgerrechte
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword - Alison Clark

Introduction - Pallawi Sinha, Sarah Richards and Marianna Stella

1. Valuing childness - Kate Bacon and Zoe O’Riordan

2. Children’s playful artistic representations as catalysts to navigate and construct social and cultural worlds - Nicole M. Jamison

3. Foster children’s participative citizenship within the context of family relationships: the case of Spain - Judite Ie

4. Children as active agents shaping women’s strategies in terminating male-to-female intimate partner violence - Ivana Lessner Lištiaková and Hana Smitková

5. Misogyny uploaded: the influence of digital misogyny and the manosphere in boys and adolescents’ identities - Carolyn Leader

6. The struggle facing children and professionals in relation to child participation in public law Children Act proceedings - Sara Hammond, Sarah Crafter and Johanna Motzkau

7. Are NGO schools for marginal childhoods congruous (non)places? - Vijitha Rajan

8. Children as witnesses of death and mourning: reflections on wartime memories and drawings from World War II - Maciej Wróblewski

9. Politicising childhoods - Pallawi Sinha

Über Autor(innen)

Richards, Sarah
Sarah Richards is Associate Professor and Head of the Suffolk Doctoral College at the University of Suffolk.

Pallawi Sinha is Senior Lecturer in Childhood Studies and Education at the University of Suffolk.

Sarah Richards is Professor of Childhood Studies and Head of Suffolk Doctoral College at the University of Suffolk.

Marianna Stella is Senior Lecturer in Childhood and Education at the University of Suffolk.