Childhood in a Global Perspective
Childhood in a Global Perspective This popular book provides a compelling introduction to thinking about childhood in rigorous and critical ways. Taking an engaging historical and comparative…
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Childhood in a Global Perspective
This popular book provides a compelling introduction to thinking about childhood in rigorous and critical ways. Taking an engaging historical and comparative approach, the book discusses wide-ranging topics including children's rights, the family, play, labour, migration and trafficking. Karen Wells offers a unique global perspective on children's lives, showing how the notion of childhood varies widely and is continuously being radically re-shaped.Taking children seriously as active participants in society, the book explores key social issues such as how children are constituted as raced, classed and gendered subjects; how school and work operate as sites for the governing of childhood; and how children both shape and are shaped by politics, culture and the economy.
In addition to updated literature throughout, this revised third edition includes extensive new material on