Global childhoods: issues and debates

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 constru...

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1. Verfasser: Cregan, Kate (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Los Angeles ; London ; New Delhi ; Singapore ; Washington DC ; Melbourne Sage 2014
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Zusammenfassung: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 ..
Beschreibung:Frontpage: February 14, 2017
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (XII, 196 Seiten) Illustrationen
ISBN:9781473909656

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