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Book SynopsisA vital challenge to the internationally accepted policy and practice consensus that intervention to shape parenting in the early years, underpinned by interpretations of brain science, is the way to prevent disadvantage.Trade Review"A compelling critique of contemporary developments in early intervention. Beautifully written and rigorously researched this book deserves a wide audience." Brigid Featherstone, University of Huddersfield"A powerful and accessibly written analysis, this is an important critical resource for students, researchers, policy makers and practitioners who work with children and families." Janet Boddy, University of Sussex"This disturbing book forensically unpicks the relationships between science and politics. A milestone contribution to policy research." Stephen J Ball, University College LondonTable of ContentsThe politics of early intervention and evidence; Citizens of the future; Rescuing the infant brain; In whose best interests?; Case studies of interests at play; Saving children; Reproducing inequalities; Reclaiming the future: alternative visions.

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Book SynopsisA vital challenge to the internationally accepted policy and practice consensus that intervention to shape parenting in the early years, underpinned by interpretations of brain science, is the way to prevent disadvantage.Trade Review"A compelling critique of contemporary developments in early intervention. Beautifully written and rigorously researched this book deserves a wide audience." Brigid Featherstone, University of Huddersfield"A powerful and accessibly written analysis, this is an important critical resource for students, researchers, policy makers and practitioners who work with children and families." Janet Boddy, University of Sussex"This disturbing book forensically unpicks the relationships between science and politics. A milestone contribution to policy research." Stephen J Ball, University College LondonTable of ContentsThe politics of early intervention and evidence; Citizens of the future; Rescuing the infant brain; In whose best interests?; Case studies of interests at play; Saving children; Reproducing inequalities; Reclaiming the future: alternative visions.

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Book SynopsisThis book examines how pathologising ideas of failing, chaotic and dysfunctional families create a powerful consensus that Britain is in the grip of a `parent crisis' and are used to justify increasingly punitive state policies.Trade Review"Quite simply a stunning tour de force. A riveting, page-turning dissection of the relationships between parenting culture, policy and neoliberalism... it analyses a staggering variety of texts and draws upon extensive interview data to explore the roots and ramifications of `mother-blame’ in particular. It is a highly original and profoundly important sociological analysis... It is destined to become not only the book to read on parent-blame under neoliberal statecraft, but a classic in feminist media studies and political sociology. Beautifully written with a voice of urgency and integrity, the book offers... an illustration of why politically engaged and theoretically informed scholarship is so important in the context of chronic and widening social inequalities." Dr Tom Slater, University of Edinburgh"A timely, energetic, and engaging critique of the presumptions behind parent-blaming in culture and policy-making." Dr Jennie Bristow, Canterbury Christ Church University"A valuable contribution to the debate about the significance of `parenting’ and an educative case study in the social construction of the `bad parent’." Jan Macvarish, University of KentTable of ContentsIntroduction Mothercraft to Mumsnet The Cultural Industry of Parent Blame Parenting – with feeling Parenting in austere times: warmth and wealth Weaponising parent-blame in post-welfare Britain Epilogue: `Mummy Maybot’: a new age of authoritarian neoliberalism

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Book SynopsisThis book examines how pathologising ideas of failing, chaotic and dysfunctional families create a powerful consensus that Britain is in the grip of a `parent crisis' and are used to justify increasingly punitive state policies.Trade Review"Quite simply a stunning tour de force. A riveting, page-turning dissection of the relationships between parenting culture, policy and neoliberalism... it analyses a staggering variety of texts and draws upon extensive interview data to explore the roots and ramifications of `mother-blame’ in particular. It is a highly original and profoundly important sociological analysis... It is destined to become not only the book to read on parent-blame under neoliberal statecraft, but a classic in feminist media studies and political sociology. Beautifully written with a voice of urgency and integrity, the book offers... an illustration of why politically engaged and theoretically informed scholarship is so important in the context of chronic and widening social inequalities." Dr Tom Slater, University of Edinburgh"A timely, energetic, and engaging critique of the presumptions behind parent-blaming in culture and policy-making." Dr Jennie Bristow, Canterbury Christ Church University"A valuable contribution to the debate about the significance of `parenting’ and an educative case study in the social construction of the `bad parent’." Jan Macvarish, University of KentTable of ContentsIntroduction Mothercraft to Mumsnet The Cultural Industry of Parent Blame Parenting – with feeling Parenting in austere times: warmth and wealth Weaponising parent-blame in post-welfare Britain Epilogue: `Mummy Maybot’: a new age of authoritarian neoliberalism

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Book SynopsisThis is the classic assessment of the state of child well-being in the UK. This fourth edition has been updated to review the latest evidence, including the impact of the economic crisis and austerity measures since 2008. An essential resource.Trade Review"With chapters written by exceptional authors, rich data, intra and inter national comparison and above all the leadership of Prof Bradshaw this is a most valuable publication for anyone who cares about children, wants to know more about their life and to promote their well-being." Asher Ben-Arieh, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel“This wide-ranging, information-dense, analytic yet accessible text will appeal to a multi-disciplinary audience. Students, researchers, policymakers and on-the-ground practitioners will find this a relevant, up-to-date and comprehensive resource… This book makes a significant contribution to helping to promote a realistic, research-informed understanding of children’s wellbeing.” Children’s Geographies“In the absence of an official `State of the Nation’ report on child well-being in the UK, this volume – like its predecessors – is the place to go. Offering rigorous and dispassionate analysis of the evidence, it makes sense of where we are and points to what needs to be done.” Nick Axford, Head of What Works, Dartington Social Research UnitTable of ContentsIntroduction ~ Jonathan Bradshaw; Demography of childhood ~ Jonathan Bradshaw; Child poverty and deprivation ~ Jonathan Bradshaw and Gill Main; Physical health ~ Jonathan Bradshaw, Veronica Dale and Karen Bloor; Subjective well-being and mental health ~ Gwyther Rees Gill Main; Education ~ Antonia Keung; Housing and the environment for children ~ Deborah Quilgars; Children’s time and space ~ Antonia Keung; Children and young people in care and leaving care ~ Gwyther Rees and Mike Stein; Child maltreatment ~ Gwyther Rees; Childcare and early years ~ Christine Skinner; Children, crime and correction ~ Rachel Morris and Lisa O’Malley; Conclusion ~ Jonathan Bradshaw.

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Book SynopsisDebunking the myth of the ageing time bomb, this timely book from the authors of Retiring with Attitude challenges our assumptions and stereotypes and demonstrates that we are capable of living better together longer in this new, older world.Trade Review"At last a book that consistently makes the positive case for later life and, in the process, demolishes the myths that dominate public discussion of ageing. A breath of fresh air, highly recommended." Professor Alan Walker, University of Sheffield"Grounded in academic literature, and in the powerful words of their research participants, the authors inspire readers to envision new possibilities for growth and development in later life." Jacquelyn B. James, Lynch School of Education, Boston College, USA"How do we learn to live in a society that's growing older but doesn't conform to the old "Pipe and Slippers" stereotypes? This inspiring book, with its compelling snapshot stories of older people's lives, provides powerful insights into this modern age of ageing. All those involved in policy-making should read this book." Rt Hon Harriet Harman QC MP"Excellent and eminently readable account of the personal, political and professional changes in our ageing lives. Nuggets from policy and practice arenas are interlaced with quotes from interviews with an array of differently ageing women and men." Miriam David, UCL Institute of Education"The authors give the lie to many negative myths about ageing. Using anecdotes and research evidence they shed a welcome light on the contribution made by older people to modern society." Judy Wurr, Mental Capacity Assessor"Challenges many of society's rigid stereotypes of older people. It navigates the reader through the main debates on ageing in an accessible and informative way." Dr Tatiana Rowson, Heriot Watt University"The New Age of Ageing is an important book, and our society would benefit from policy-makers taking note of the authors' numerous recommendations." Citizen's Income Trust“We need more books like The New Age of Ageing in the UK and Europe. [This book] is thoughtful translational work, which aims to fill a gap between expert knowledge and populist rhetoric. For this reason, it is to be viewed as both timely and significant.” Critical Social Policy"The book’s panoramic sweep across policy and its spirited style make for an easy but rewarding read. Anyone new to the subject of our ageing society, and especially those with responsibilities for policy or services for older people, would do well to study this book closely." Journal of Population AgeingTable of ContentsLiving longer together; Going on and on; How society makes people old; Time-bomb, what time bomb? The economics of ageing; Overlooked and Under-estimated: Older Consumers; Working longer together; Media exclusion; Cover up; Living Together; Who Cares?; Wiser together; The best bits; The dark side; We’re still here.

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Book SynopsisPlacing children's experiences, needs and concerns at the centre of its examination of contemporary policies and political discourses surrounding poverty in childhood, this book examines a broad range of structural, institutional and ideological factors common across developed nations and forges a radical new pathway for the future.Trade Review“Beautifully written, highly scholarly and well organised. A devastating critique of oppressive government, this book will be used as a source by students from a range of disciplines.” Jonathan Bradshaw, University of York"Child poverty is a national disgrace in the UK. Read this wide-ranging book to understand the facts and to get a new handle on how to address these pressing problems." Jane Millar, University of BathTable of ContentsIntroduction Context Family Lone parenthood Education In and out of work Health Ethnicity and disability Adversity and poverty Conclusions

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Book SynopsisThrough the perspectives of young people themselves, this book reviews changes in policy and practices that affected the generation of young people who grew up in state care in China during the last 20 years.Trade Review"This book provides us with intriguing stories of Chinese orphans in their adulthood. It also offers a telling argument for changing practices to ensure a better future for children in state care." Kinglun Ngok, Centre for Public Administration Research, Sun Yat-Sen UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction to leaving state care in China Children in alternative care Alternative care practices in child welfare institutions Leaving care policies Social inclusion impact of a childhood in state care Self-identity of young people leaving state care Economic security of young people leaving care Social networks and employment of young people leaving care Housing pathways of young people leaving care State support for children in informal care Growing up in institutional family group care Policy implications for young people leaving care in China

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Book SynopsisThis book offers an analysis of the limitations of child attachment theory as the basis for decision-making in child welfare practice, examining controversies and offering a new pedagogy that is responsive to the changing dynamics of contemporary families.Trade Review"Reassessing Attachment Theory in Child Welfare is an incredibly valuable intervention into debates about the use of attachment theory and research by practitioners. The authors highlight major discrepancies between the accounts of attachment of researches and of practitioners and offer some timely cautions. They also present an insightful account of why attachment theory - or, at least, a cut-down version of it - has had such appeal for child welfare practice. A terrific contribution to the literature." Matthew Gibson, University of BirminghamTable of ContentsPreface: becoming attached to attachment theory Love is a wondrous state: origins and early debates Social work and the attachment story: a felicitous bond? Shaping practice: prescribing assessment Practising attachment theory in child welfare Exhibiting disorganised attachment: not even wrong? Breaking the back of love: attachment goes neuro-molecular Coda: love reawakened?

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Book SynopsisThis book offers an analysis of the limitations of child attachment theory as the basis for decision-making in child welfare practice, examining controversies and offering a new pedagogy that is responsive to the changing dynamics of contemporary families.Trade Review"Reassessing Attachment Theory in Child Welfare is an incredibly valuable intervention into debates about the use of attachment theory and research by practitioners. The authors highlight major discrepancies between the accounts of attachment of researches and of practitioners and offer some timely cautions. They also present an insightful account of why attachment theory - or, at least, a cut-down version of it - has had such appeal for child welfare practice. A terrific contribution to the literature." Matthew Gibson, University of BirminghamTable of ContentsPreface: becoming attached to attachment theory Love is a wondrous state: origins and early debates Social work and the attachment story: a felicitous bond? Shaping practice: prescribing assessment Practising attachment theory in child welfare Exhibiting disorganised attachment: not even wrong? Breaking the back of love: attachment goes neuro-molecular Coda: love reawakened?

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Book SynopsisCovering key concepts, theories, themes and issues, this textbook uses a range of multi-disciplinary insights to show how children and young people negotiate crucial challenges and transitions in their lives. Covering different practice dimensions, it provides fresh insights on key topics and includes a range of learning support features.Trade Review“An invaluable text for students and professionals. Importantly, a holistic approach to working with children and their families is emphasised in order to analyse and reflect upon important issues.” Kim Holt, Northumbria University"Human growth and development in children and young people has highly relevant and useful content that I would recommend to everyone working with the development of children and young people to read" European Journal of Social WorkTable of ContentsPart 1: Introducing the theory; Traditional approaches to human growth and development – Jonathan Parker; Psychoanalytic approaches – Stephen Briggs; Cognitive theories and cognitive development – Margarete Parrish; Social construction and emotional development – Jo Finch; Critical perspectives – Jonathan Parker; Moral, spiritual and existential development – Wilfred McSherry, Alison Rodriguez and Joanna Smith; Part 2: Specific developmental issues; An introduction to the principles of attachment theory – Gabrielle Schaeffer; Young people’s transition to adulthood – Nick Frost and Melanie Watts; Developmental and life course criminology – Richard Heslop and Jonathan Parker; Loss and bereavement in childhood – Sue Taplin; Culture and coming of age: the example of Muslims in Britain – Sara Ashencaen Crabtree; Part 3: Professional practice; Impacts of child maltreatment: critical considerations – Lisa Bunting; Substitute care: moving into a new family – Christine Cocker; Working with disabled children and young people – Louise Oliver and Sally Lee; Mental health and children – Elisabeth Willumsen, Siv E.N. Sæbjørnsen and Atle Ødegård; Working with unaccompanied migrant children and young people seeking asylum – Deborah Hadwin, Gurnam Singh and Stephen Cowden.

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Book SynopsisThis book addresses the frustrating gap between research conducted on effective practices and the lack of routine use of such practices. The author introduces a model for reducing this gap, highlighting the roles of social networks, research evidence, practitioner/policymaker decision-making, research-practice-policy partnerships.Trade Review“Using compelling examples of programmes and associated research, this book takes us through the processes needed to implement high quality services in child welfare settings. Researchers, administrators, policy-makers, practitioners and students alike will benefit from its honest look at what it takes to deliver a service effectively." Aron Shlonsky, Monash UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction The need for evidence-based practice Understanding and reducing the gap EBP implementation in child welfare and child mental health Social networks and EBP implementation Use of research evidence and EBP implementation Local models of EBP implementation Research-practice-policy partnerships Cultural exchange and EPB implementation A transactional model of implementing EBP

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Book SynopsisThis book addresses the frustrating gap between research conducted on effective practices and the lack of routine use of such practices. The author introduces a model for reducing this gap, highlighting the roles of social networks, research evidence, practitioner/policymaker decision-making, research-practice-policy partnerships.Trade Review“Using compelling examples of programmes and associated research, this book takes us through the processes needed to implement high quality services in child welfare settings. Researchers, administrators, policy-makers, practitioners and students alike will benefit from its honest look at what it takes to deliver a service effectively." Aron Shlonsky, Monash UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction The need for evidence-based practice Understanding and reducing the gap EBP implementation in child welfare and child mental health Social networks and EBP implementation Use of research evidence and EBP implementation Local models of EBP implementation Research-practice-policy partnerships Cultural exchange and EPB implementation A transactional model of implementing EBP

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Book SynopsisDrawing on the qualitative research findings, this book develops a new framework to provide a useful analytical tool for academics and practitioners working with children and families to make sense of young people's experiences of parental separation and divorce and puts forward suggestions for improving support for children in the future.Trade Review“Combining interesting theory and research, this book captures young people’s voices and explores some of the fundamental issues surrounding parental separation. It presents thought-provoking discussions for academics, practitioners and students.” Rebecca Westrup, University of East AngliaTable of ContentsIntroduction; What is known about children’s experience of parental separation and divorce; The Research Study; Constructing a new framework for understanding children’s accommodation of parental separation; Setting the context for the framework: Emotions; Reactions; Support; Communication; Conflict; Future directions.

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Book SynopsisAn examination of the early work of the innovative Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children Ethics and Law Committee. It will help anyone involved in other cohort studies to understand how ethical policies evolve.Trade Review"A fascinating account of a pioneering study, which developed ethical procedures in an evolving context with no existing coherent framework." Anna Tarrant, University of LincolnTable of ContentsIntroduction Part One: ALSPAC Ethics and Law Committee: a new concept one Preliminaries and pioneers: framing the questions two Informal or casual: an unusual style three Advisory to independent: a missed opportunity four Bureaucratic battles: liaison with the Local Research Ethics Committees Part Two: Policy development: a case of case law five Confidentiality and anonymity: a rod for their own backs six Informed consent: too much information seven Child protection: an observational study? eight Disclosure of individual results: foreseen feedback and incidental findings nine Disclosure of individual results: participants’ requests ten Participants’ problems: people not policies eleven External databases: anonymous linkage Part Three: Beyond policy: a broad remit twelve Retention of the Cohort: incentives or inducements thirteen Commercial collaborations: selling our souls fourteen Comprehensive oversight: undocumented and unacknowledged fifteen Influence beyond ALSPAC: extension of expertise Conclusions

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Book SynopsisThis book explores how young people across different European contexts participate in decision-making and foster changes on issues that concern them and their communities, giving new insights into discourses on young people's as active citizens across Europe.Table of ContentsRevisiting Young People’s Participation: An Introduction ~ Maria Bruselius-Jensen, Kay Tisdall and Ilaria Pitti Part One Cultural Activism Against Inequalities: The Experience of Quaderni Urbani in Bologna ~ Alessio La Terra It’s Okay to Think Freely: How Participation Changed Us ~ Christina McMellon, Katherine Dempsie & Myada Eltiraifi Frontrunners Against Inequality: The Stories Of Darpan and Barwaqo ~ Darpan Raj Gautam and Barwaqo Jamma Husein Part Two Bounded Agency and Social Participation: How Socioeconomic Situation and Experiences Influence Young People’s Way of Engaging In Society ~ Sabine Israel, Jo Deakin, Renata Frank, Anna Markina, Rein Murakas and Markus Quandt From Ideology to Strategic Engagement ~ Jonas Lieberkind Digital Participation and Digital Divides in Former Socialist Country ~ Airi-Alina Allaste and David Cairns The Participation Project: How Projects Shape Young People’s Participation ~ Maria Bruselius-Jensen and Anne Mette W. Nielsen Part Three Young Italians and the Crisis: Emerging Trends in Activism and Self-Organisation ~ Ilaria Pitti and Nicola De Luigi Justifying Self-Organisation: Between Inequality and Critique ~ Anne-Lene Sand Advocacy and Participation: Young People with Autism Spectrum Disorder and their Experiences with Statutory Casework ~ Cecilie K. Moesby-Jensen Young people seeking asylum: voice and activism in a ‘hostile environment’ ~ Grainne McMahon, Grainne and Rhetta Moran Part Four Meaningful, Effective, and Sustainable? Challenges for Children and Young People’s Participation ~ E. Kay M. Tisdall Journey Mapping as a Method to Make Sense of Participation ~ Anne Mette W. Nielsen and Maria Bruselius-Jensen Playful Walks: A Methodological Approach for Analysing the Embodied Citizenship of Young People in the Countryside ~ Claire Levy Transformative Participation in the Lifeworlds of Marginalised Youth: Learning for Change ~ Mette Bladt and Barry Percy-Smith Revisiting Young People’s Participation and Looking Ahead: Concluding Remarks ~ E. Kay M. Tisdall, Ilaria Pitti, Maria Bruselius-Jensen

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Book SynopsisA fresh approach to supporting children who experience parental separation and divorce. Murch argues for preventative intervention which responds to children's worries when they first present them, without waiting until things have gone badly wrong.Trade Review“A useful text, giving the reader the opportunity to reflect on practice and developments in this area and how they may be able to influence further change.” Seen and Heard“This book contains the wisdom of a professional lifetime spent integrating mental health and judicial concerns from a leading architect of the family justice system.” Christopher Clulow, PhD. Senior Fellow, the Tavistock Institute of Medical Psychology“Distilling a lifetime’s work and reflection, this is an essential read for anyone concerned about the needs of children on family breakdown.” Gillian Douglas, Executive Dean, King’s College London“At a time when the mental health of our young people is of national concern… This is an essential text that should inform policy and practice both in family law and education.” James Wetz, Author of 'Urban Village Schools'Table of ContentsPart I: Illuminating the field of policy Some key background data Setting out the stall Numbers, scale and trends Summarised research reviews upon which to promote social and emotional wellbeing in children of separated parents Hearing the voice of the child: messages from research that expose gaps between theory, principle and reality Part II: Primary prevention Children dealing with the crisis of parental separation: towards new supportive practice and policy Children in crisis speak out The crisis model of preventive mental health and its potential application for support services for children coping with parental separation The pros and cons of the preventive mental health approach Providing short-term primary preventative crisis intervention for children in schools Part III: Secondary prevention Family justice policy under the Coalition government (2010–15): how will a new regime meet the needs of children with separating and divorcing parents? The repeal of S41 of the Matrimonial Causes Act 1973 and related reforms: is the state turning a blind eye to the needs of children in divorce proceedings? Demolition and reconstruction in the family justice regime: what can be salvaged for children whose parents separate and divorce? Changing the culture of family justice: barriers to be overcome Part IV: Embedding the crisis intervention approach The future policy and practice challenge Barriers obstructing a preventive mental health approach Policy and practice proposals to support children and young people coping with interparental conflict and separation Scanning the horizon

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Book SynopsisA fresh approach to supporting children who experience parental separation and divorce. Murch argues for preventative intervention which responds to children's worries when they first present them, without waiting until things have gone badly wrong.Trade Review"This book contains the wisdom of a professional lifetime spent integrating mental health and judicial concerns from a leading architect of the family justice system." Christopher Clulow, PhD. Senior Fellow, the Tavistock Institute of Medical Psychology "Distilling a lifetime's work and reflection, this is an essential read for anyone concerned about the needs of children on family breakdown." Gillian Douglas, Executive Dean, King's College London "At a time when the mental health of our young people is of national concern... This is an essential text that should inform policy and practice both in family law and education." James Wetz, Author of 'Urban Village Schools'Table of ContentsPart I: Illuminating the field of policy Some key background data Setting out the stall Numbers, scale and trends Summarised research reviews upon which to promote social and emotional wellbeing in children of separated parents Hearing the voice of the child: messages from research that expose gaps between theory, principle and reality Part II: Primary prevention Children dealing with the crisis of parental separation: towards new supportive practice and policy Children in crisis speak out The crisis model of preventive mental health and its potential application for support services for children coping with parental separation The pros and cons of the preventive mental health approach Providing short-term primary preventative crisis intervention for children in schools Part III: Secondary prevention Family justice policy under the Coalition government (2010–15): how will a new regime meet the needs of children with separating and divorcing parents? The repeal of S41 of the Matrimonial Causes Act 1973 and related reforms: is the state turning a blind eye to the needs of children in divorce proceedings? Demolition and reconstruction in the family justice regime: what can be salvaged for children whose parents separate and divorce? Changing the culture of family justice: barriers to be overcome Part IV: Embedding the crisis intervention approach The future policy and practice challenge Barriers obstructing a preventive mental health approach Policy and practice proposals to support children and young people coping with interparental conflict and separation Scanning the horizon

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Book SynopsisLessons from child protection errors and mistakes in 11 countries in Europe and North America are drawn together in a stimulating study from leading researchers in the field. By comparing and contrasting impacts, responses and responsibilities, it deepens understanding of how child protection systems fail and points to ideas for risk reduction.Trade Review“I would highly recommend this book for social workers, academics and researchers in the area of child protection and welfare, particularly those with an interest in child protection internationally. It should be compulsory reading for all social workers in child protection in Ireland.” The Irish Social WorkerTable of ContentsErrors and mistakes in child protection: the paradox of doing wrong; Definitions, approaches and challenges; England; Ireland; The Netherlands; Finland; Norway; Sweden; Switzerland; Germany; France; Italy; The USA; Conclusion.

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Book SynopsisEPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND. This book explores how children's rights are weighed against parents' rights in a range of countries, and examines how governments and legal and welfare professionals balance those rights following the decision that children cannot grow up in their parents' care.Table of ContentsIntroducing the field of adoption from care ~ Tarja Poesoe, Marit Skivenes and June Thoburn Part I: Adoption from care in risk-oriented child protection systems Adoption from care in England: learning from experience ~ June Thoburn Overcoming the Soviet legacy? Adoption from care in Estonia ~ Katre Luhamaa and Judit Stroempl Adoption of children from state care in Ireland: in whose best interests? ~ Kenneth Burns and Simone McCaughren Adoption from care: policy and practice in the United States ~ Jill Duerr Berrick Part II: Adoption from care in family service-oriented child protection systems Adoption from care in Austria ~ Jenny Krutzinna and Katrin Kriz Adoption from care in Finland: currently an uncommon alternative to foster care ~ Pia Eriksson and Tarja Poesoe Adoption from care in Germany: inconclusive policy and poorly coordinated practice ~ Thomas Meysen and Ina Bovenschen Adoption from care in Norway ~ Hege Stein Helland and Marit Skivenes Adoption from care in Spain ~ Sagrario Segado, Ana Cristina Gomez Aparicio and Esther Abad Guerra Part III: Human rights platform and ways of belonging International human rights law governing national adoption from care ~ Katre Luhamaa and Conor O'Mahony Creating 'family' in adoption from care ~ Jenny Krutzinna Understanding attachment in decisions on adoption from care in Norway ~ Hege Stein Helland and Sveinung Hellesen Nygard The adoptive kinship network: issues around birth family contact in adoption ~ June Thoburn Making sense of adoption from care in very different contexts ~ Tarja Poesoe, Marit Skivenes and June Thoburn

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Book SynopsisThis book provides a practical and concise introductory guide to doing research with children and young people, outlining the benefits and challenges along with key ethical, methodological and other considerations. Throughout, there are practical examples, checklists and top tips to aid the reader.Trade Review"An excellent, up-to-date resource with practical suggestions for designing research and overcoming ethical challenges to enable children and young people to participate in research and have their voice heard." Emily Tanner, NatCen Social ResearchTable of ContentsIntroduction The context for social research with children and young people Involving children and young people in research Ethical considerations Designing appropriate methods for children and young people Conclusions

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Book SynopsisBased on a unique longitudinal study and offering a critical visual methodology of collaborative seeing, this book shows how a diverse community of young people in Worcester, MA used cameras at different ages (10, 12, 16, 18) to capture the centrality of care in their lives, homes and classrooms.Trade Review"Children Framing Childhoods challenges the deficit models of working-class children by asking them to tell us what is important to know about school and home. Demonstrating their ways of doing care work offers adults lessons on how to create a caring environment and offers hope for the future of our country." Mary Romero, President of the American Sociological Association“A powerful book that centralizes the voices of children, specifically illuminating how working-class kids frame their childhoods—through photographs and related meanings and contexts. [It] has a strong and powerful focus on how social inequalities, especially related to class, race, and gender, shape how the children and young people learn and express what they feel entitled to, constrained by, and how they envision their future possibilities. Overall, the most powerful and crucial of the children’s stories and photographs is the depth that is manifested in their profound and basic understanding about care—that care is work, something that requires time, effort, resources, and coordination, as well as attention and investment; it is also mundane, necessary, and arduous and affectively linked with social units and spaces (in this case, family, school, friendship circles, and communities). Care, then as Luttrell argues, is the basic currency of community—indeed, in a democratic society, it is the precondition of freedom itself.” Journal of Women and Social WorkTable of ContentsPrelude: Worcester, Massachusetts. Fall, 2003 Digital Interlude #1: Dwelling in School 1. Ways of Seeing Diverse Working-Class Children and Childhoods 2. The Everyday Politics of Belonging/s 3. Motherhood, Childhood, and Love Labor in Family Choreographies of Care Digital Interlude #2: Feeding the Family 4. School Choreographies of Care: Being Seen, Being Safe, and Being Believed Digital Interlude #3: Nice…? 5. That’s (Not) Me Now: Development, Identity, and Being in Time Digital Interlude #4: Being in Time 6. The Freedom to Care Postlude: Notes on Reflexive Methods: Past, Present, and Future Digital Interlude #5: Collaborative Seeing

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Book SynopsisThis book explores how children, young people and families cope with situations of socio-economic poverty and precarity in diverse international contexts and looks at the evidence of the harms and inequalities caused by these processes.Table of ContentsIntroduction ~ John Horton, Helena Pimlott-Wilson and Sarah Marie Hall PART I: Transformations Reconceptualising inner-city education? Marketisation, strategies and competition in the gentrified city ~ Eric Larsson and Anki Bengtsson Youth migration to Lima: vulnerability or opportunity, exclusion or network-building? ~ Dena Aufseeser Sleepless in Seoul: understanding sleepless youth and their practices at 24-hour cafés through neoliberal governmentality ~ Jonghee Lee- Caldararo ‘Live like a college student’: student loan debt and the college experience ~ Denise Goerisch ‘Everywhere feels like home’: transnational neoliberal subjects negotiating the future ~ Michael Boampong PART II: Intersections/inequalities Negotiating social and familial norms: women’s labour market participation in rural Bangladesh and North India ~ Heather Piggott Marginalised youth perspectives and positive uncertainty in Addis Ababa and Kathmandu ~ Vicky Johnson and Andy West Infantilised parents and criminalised children: the frame of childhood in UK poverty discourse ~ Aura Lehtonen and Jacob Breslow Learning to pay: the financialisation of childhood ~ Carl Walker, Peter Squires and Carlie Goldsmith Immigration, employment precarity and masculinity in Filipino- Canadian families ~ Philip Kelly The undeserving poor and the happy poor: interrelations between the politics of global charity and austerity for young people in Britain ~ Ruth Cheung Judge PART III: Futures Looking towards the future: intersectionalities of race, class and place in young Colombians’ lives ~ Sonja Marzi ‘My aim is to take over Zane Lowe’: young people’s imagined futures at a community radio station (UK) ~ Catherine Wilkinson Dependent subjects and financial inclusion: launching a credit union on a campus in Taiwan ~ Hao-Che Pei and Chiung-wen Chang ‘If you think about the future you are just troubling yourself’: uncertain futures among caregiving and non-caregiving youth in Zambia ~ Caroline Day Conclusions and futures: growing up and getting by ~ Helena Pimlott-Wilson, Sarah Marie Hall and John Horton

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Book SynopsisThis book explores how children, young people and families cope with situations of socio-economic poverty and precarity in diverse international contexts and looks at the evidence of the harms and inequalities caused by these processes.Table of ContentsSection 1: Introduction; Introduction ~ John Horton, Helena Pimlott-Wilson, Sarah Marie Hall; Section 2: Transformations; Tackling family poverty: in the best interests of children? ~ John McKendrick; Spatial entitlement in an era of neo-liberal educational marketization – Inner city elite schools and the relationally defined counterparts (Sweden) ~ Eric Larsson and Elisabeth Hultqvist; Seasonal migration to Lima: Exclusion and opportunity? ~ Dena Aufseeser; Night-time geography and neoliberalism: a study of sleepless youth and their practices at 24-hour-cafés in Seoul (South Korea) ~ Jonghee Lee; ‘Live like a college student’: Student Loan Debt and the College Experience (USA) ~ Denise Goersich; Section 3: Intersections/Inequalities; State, economic crises and the necessity of social reproduction: negotiated and constrained interdependencies ~ Michael Boampong; Negotiating Social and Familial Norms: Women's Labour Experiences in Rural Bangladesh and North India ~ Heather Piggott; Changing Definitions of (Child) Poverty: The Contested Spaces of Childhood and the Family In UK Austerity Politics ~ Jacob Breslow and Aura Lehtonen; Learning to Pay: the financialization of childhood; Masculinity and Intergenerational Mobility in Recessionary Times: The Case of Filipino-Canadian Male Youth Outcomes ~ Philip Kelly; Relational ecologies of care-experienced youth and the politicised ‘border’ of successful and failed transitions: the policy omnipresence of reaching ‘adult independence’ (UK and Australia) ~ Caroline Cresswell; Section 4: Futures; Looking Towards the Future: Young Colombians’ Aspirations and Social Mobility Boundaries ~ Sonja Marzi; “My aim is to take over Zane Lowe”: Young People’s Imagined Futures at a Community Radio Station (UK) ~ Catherine Wilkinson; Self-cultivating financial citizenship: A case of a campus-based credit union movement in Taiwan ~ Hao-Che Fei and Chiung-wen Chang; Section 5 – Concluding reflections; Reflections ~ John Horton, Helena Pimlott-Wilson, Sarah Marie Hall.

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Book SynopsisBased on a unique longitudinal study and offering a critical visual methodology of collaborative seeing, this book shows how a diverse community of young people in Worcester, MA used cameras at different ages (10, 12, 16, 18) to capture the centrality of care in their lives, homes and classrooms.Trade Review"Children Framing Childhoods challenges the deficit models of working-class children by asking them to tell us what is important to know about school and home. Demonstrating their ways of doing care work offers adults lessons on how to create a caring environment and offers hope for the future of our country." Mary Romero, President of the American Sociological Association“Luttrell’s elegant visual ethnography of home and school brings forward the caring work of immigrant families, teachers, and young students themselves. Her innovative “collaborative seeing” methodology challenges deficit perceptions of urban schooling and offers a vision of education with caring at its core.” Marjorie DeVault, Syracuse University“Wendy Luttrell has given us a gem that will innovate critical childhood studies for years to come. This book takes us on an intimate journey across time and images, claiming space for children’s carework.” Lauren J Silver, Rutgers University-CamdenTable of ContentsPrelude: Worcester, Massachusetts. Fall, 2003 Digital Interlude #1: Dwelling in School 1. Ways of Seeing Diverse Working-Class Children and Childhoods 2. The Everyday Politics of Belonging/s 3. Motherhood, Childhood, and Love Labor in Family Choreographies of Care Digital Interlude #2: Feeding the Family 4. School Choreographies of Care: Being Seen, Being Safe, and Being Believed Digital Interlude #3: Nice…? 5. That’s (Not) Me Now: Development, Identity, and Being in Time Digital Interlude #4: Being in Time 6. The Freedom to Care Postlude: Notes on Reflexive Methods: Past, Present, and Future Digital Interlude #5: Collaborative Seeing

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Book SynopsisPresenting new research, this book provides refreshing guidance on how social workers can ensure that children and parents participate more effectively in decision making processes when childcare social workers are involved and improve outcomes for all.Table of ContentsIntroduction Children’s and Parents’ Participation: Current Thinking ~ Clive Diaz and Lorna Stabler How Parents and Children View the System Young People’s Perspectives Young People’s Participation: Views from Social Workers and IROs Senior Managers’ Perspectives When it Goes Wrong Summary and Conclusion

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Book SynopsisPresenting new research, this book provides refreshing guidance on how social workers can ensure that children and parents participate more effectively in decision making processes when childcare social workers are involved and improve outcomes for all.Table of ContentsIntroduction Children’s and Parents’ Participation: Current Thinking ~ Clive Diaz and Lorna Stabler How Parents and Children View the System Young People’s Perspectives Young People’s Participation: Views from Social Workers and IROs Senior Managers’ Perspectives When it Goes Wrong Summary and Conclusion

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Book SynopsisThis book examines a participatory approach in child protection practices in Norway and the United States. It explores ways of empowering children; shows how they can be encouraged to express their own opinions and explores tools for child protection workers to negotiate complex boundaries around the inclusion of children in decision-making.Table of ContentsIntroduction Children’s participation as contested practice Non- participation triggers Participation triggers Doing participation Youth citizens Protecting children, creating citizens Appendix 1: Research methods Appendix 2: Discussion questions

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Book SynopsisThis book explores what happened to the 'Romanian orphans' of the 1990s, including those who stayed in institutions as well as those who were fostered and adopted domestically and internationally. Looking in detail at their experiences, the book provides valuable new evidence on what is important for children in care today.Table of Contents1. Introduction 2. Romania: what underlay the orphan crisis 3. Where do children go when they can’t stay with their families? 4. Childhoods in care 5. Teen years in care and their ways out 6. Exploring life trajectories: what mattered to them 7. The benefit of hindsight: learning for policy and practice

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Book SynopsisWhat does mothering mean in different cultures and societies? This book extensively applies biographical and narrative research methods to mothering from international perspectives. Considering self-care, rapport, trust and self-reflection, the collection advances methodological practice in the study of mothers, carers and childless women's lives.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Biographical Approaches to Mothering- Identities and Lived Realities – Lyudmila Nurse, Lisa Moran and Kateřina Sidiropulu-Janků 1. Becoming and Being a Polish Mother: Narratives on the Motherhood Experience - Katarzyna Gajek, Poland 2. “A Good Mother is a Good Mother and a Good Wife”: Gender Politics, and Mothering Practice Among Older Iranian Muslim Women - Elham Amini, UK 3. The Emergence of a Pandemic, Biographical Disruption and the Exploration of Mothering and Shifting Identities - Fibian Lukalo, Kenya 4. Biographies of Roma Mothering in Contemporary Czechia. Exploring Tapestries of Multi-ethnic Gendered Identity in a Marginalised Social Position - Kateřina Sidiropulu Janků, Austria & Jana Obrovská, Czech Republic 5. Identities and Life Choices of Mothers in a Disadvantaged Neighbourhood in England - Lyudmila Nurse, UK 6. Giving Voice to Irish Mothers Experiencing Separation and Divorce - Rosemary Crosse and Michelle Millar, Ireland 7. Ideal, Good Enough, and Failed Motherhood: How Disabled Canadian Mothers Manage in Hostile Circumstances - Claudia Malacrida, Canada 8. Confronting Meanings of Motherhood in Neoliberal Australia: Six Crystallized Case Studies - Laetitia Coles, Emma Cooke & Jasneek Chawla, Australia 9. Unplanned Breakdown of Foster Mothering. Biographical Perspectives on Identity Challenges of Foster Mothers - Daniela Reimer, Switzerland 10. Non-Mothers: Identities, Ambiguity, Biography Making and Life Choices - Joan Cronin, Ireland Conclusion: Exploring Mothering in Future Biographical Research- Inter-disciplinarity, Trans-disciplinarity and New Research Agendas - Lisa Moran, Lyudmila Nurse and Kateřina Sidiropulu-Janků

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Book SynopsisIn the 1950s the colonial British government in Northern and Southern Rhodesia (present-day Zambia and Zimbabwe) began construction on a large hydroelectric dam that created Lake Kariba and dislocated nearly 60,000 indigenous residents. Three decades later, Pamela Reynolds began fieldwork with the Tonga people to study the lasting effects of the dispossession of their land on their lives. In The Uncaring, Intricate WorldReynolds shares her field diary, in which she records her efforts to study children and their labor and, by doing so, exposes the character of everyday life. More than a memoir, her diary captures the range of pleasures, difficulties, frustrations, contradictions, and grappling with ethical questions that all anthropologists experience in the field. The Uncaring, Intricate World concludes with afterwords by Jane I. Guyer and Julie Livingston, who critically reflect on its context, its meaning for today, and relevance to conducting anthropological work.Trade Review“Pamela Reynolds's ethnography-diary The Uncaring, Intricate World elegantly captures the vicissitudes of life in a setting of breathtaking sunsets, stunning moon rises, brutal gusts of night wind, and the ceaselessly annoying high pitch of the mosquito's whine. In the pages of this wonderful book she presents a complex cast of memorable characters whose life challenges underscore both the fragility and resilience of the human condition as well as the small pleasures of sipping brandy after a long day of being-in-the-world.” -- Paul Stoller, author of * Adventures in Blogging: Public Anthropology and Popular Media *“The dated entries in The Uncaring, Intricate World bring into view not what is hidden and occult but what is before our eyes. Pamela Reynolds's writings are renowned for showing us that children haunt anthropological texts even as they go unacknowledged—yet this book adds an entirely new dimension to Reynolds's work by revealing the child who hides in the anthropologist.” -- Veena Das, Krieger-Eisenhower Professor of Anthropology, Johns Hopkins University"Reynolds engages with familiar fieldwork dilemmas – ethical, practical, methodological, social – with thoughtful candour." -- Hayley Macgregor * Times Literary Supplement *"Uncaring, Intricate World is well-structured, easy to read and intellectually stimulating. . . . It presents us with a different ethnographic form from the monograph, a deeply immersive, descriptive, everyday sense of what anthropologists do and what anthropology is and can be." -- Joshua Matanzima * Journal of Southern African Studies *"As we read, we cannot help but conclude that the book’s title is very appropriate. We come to know the culture and relationships of the Tonga people as extremely intricate. . . . Reynolds helps us see these intricacies, and we finish reading caring about these people." -- David W. Restrick * African Studies Quarterly *"A wonderful book to read. . . . While this diary documents happenings from nearly forty years ago, many of the observations are still relevant today. This is a vital source of insight for current students and researchers. It is beautifully written and edited and provides glimpses into a world many of us who study and write on Zimbabwe are familiar with." -- Rory Pilossof * African Studies Review *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Foreword. The Unsubstantial Territory / Todd Meyers xi Introduction 1 A Field Diary 31 Afterword. Noticing Life, Matters Arising / Jane I. Guyer 173 Afterword. Sitting Quietly, Traveling in Time / Julie Livingston 175 Glossary 179 Bibliography 185 Index 189

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Book SynopsisIn the 1950s the colonial British government in Northern and Southern Rhodesia (present-day Zambia and Zimbabwe) began construction on a large hydroelectric dam that created Lake Kariba and dislocated nearly 60,000 indigenous residents. Three decades later, Pamela Reynolds began fieldwork with the Tonga people to study the lasting effects of the dispossession of their land on their lives. In The Uncaring, Intricate WorldReynolds shares her field diary, in which she records her efforts to study children and their labor and, by doing so, exposes the character of everyday life. More than a memoir, her diary captures the range of pleasures, difficulties, frustrations, contradictions, and grappling with ethical questions that all anthropologists experience in the field. The Uncaring, Intricate World concludes with afterwords by Jane I. Guyer and Julie Livingston, who critically reflect on its context, its meaning for today, and relevance to conducting anthropological work.Trade Review“Pamela Reynolds's ethnography-diary The Uncaring, Intricate World elegantly captures the vicissitudes of life in a setting of breathtaking sunsets, stunning moon rises, brutal gusts of night wind, and the ceaselessly annoying high pitch of the mosquito's whine. In the pages of this wonderful book she presents a complex cast of memorable characters whose life challenges underscore both the fragility and resilience of the human condition as well as the small pleasures of sipping brandy after a long day of being-in-the-world.” -- Paul Stoller, author of * Adventures in Blogging: Public Anthropology and Popular Media *“The dated entries in The Uncaring, Intricate World bring into view not what is hidden and occult but what is before our eyes. Pamela Reynolds's writings are renowned for showing us that children haunt anthropological texts even as they go unacknowledged—yet this book adds an entirely new dimension to Reynolds's work by revealing the child who hides in the anthropologist.” -- Veena Das, Krieger-Eisenhower Professor of Anthropology, Johns Hopkins University"Reynolds engages with familiar fieldwork dilemmas – ethical, practical, methodological, social – with thoughtful candour." -- Hayley Macgregor * Times Literary Supplement *"Uncaring, Intricate World is well-structured, easy to read and intellectually stimulating. . . . It presents us with a different ethnographic form from the monograph, a deeply immersive, descriptive, everyday sense of what anthropologists do and what anthropology is and can be." -- Joshua Matanzima * Journal of Southern African Studies *"As we read, we cannot help but conclude that the book’s title is very appropriate. We come to know the culture and relationships of the Tonga people as extremely intricate. . . . Reynolds helps us see these intricacies, and we finish reading caring about these people." -- David W. Restrick * African Studies Quarterly *"A wonderful book to read. . . . While this diary documents happenings from nearly forty years ago, many of the observations are still relevant today. This is a vital source of insight for current students and researchers. It is beautifully written and edited and provides glimpses into a world many of us who study and write on Zimbabwe are familiar with." -- Rory Pilossof * African Studies Review *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Foreword. The Unsubstantial Territory / Todd Meyers xi Introduction 1 A Field Diary 31 Afterword. Noticing Life, Matters Arising / Jane I. Guyer 173 Afterword. Sitting Quietly, Traveling in Time / Julie Livingston 175 Glossary 179 Bibliography 185 Index 189

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Book SynopsisTyler Bickford traces the dramatic rise of the tween pop music industry, showing how it marshaled childishness as a key element in legitimizing children's participation in public culture.Trade Review“A pathbreaking contribution that will reach and be relevant to a wide audience, Tween Pop is the first book to treat the tween pop explosion of the 2000s as a cohesive phenomenon. I have no doubt that it will reach a wide audience while repositioning music as central to childhood studies and demanding for children's music a central place in the study of popular music as a whole.” -- Diane Pecknold, author of * The Selling Sound: The Rise of the Country Music Industry *“Tyler Bickford masterfully describes a ‘tween moment’ in American public culture, examining those young music consumers who teeter between childhood and adolescence, and the attention of the popular music industry in reconceptualizing music for them in this critical growth stage. This highly original and ambitious book is a substantial contribution to ethnomusicology, sociology, media studies, education, and child studies, and convincingly clarifies the struggle of the culture industries to convert childhood into a cultural identity all its own.” -- Patricia Shehan Campbell, University of Washington“Tween Pop offers valuable new directions in many areas across multiple disciplines. The scholarship here should remain beneficial for quite some time. . . . I urge readers to pick up this book now and make the most of it.” -- Christopher A. Medjesky * Journal of Popular Culture *“Tween Pop is well-researched, expertly written, and thorough, and it includes supporting images. It is an essential text for those wanting to understand the important tween audience and its continuing impact on popular music.” -- Kathy Merlock Jackson * Journal of American Culture *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction. The Tween Moment 1 1. Singing Along 41 2. Music Television 56 3. "Having It All" 87 4. The Whiteness of Tween Innocence 106 5. The Tween Prodigy at Home and Online 140 Conclusion. After the Tween Moment 167 Notes 187 References 197 Index 221

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Book SynopsisIn the early years of the twenty-first century, the US music industry created a new market for tweens, selling music that was cooler than Barney, but that still felt safe for children. In Tween Pop Tyler Bickford traces the dramatic rise of the tween music industry, showing how it marshaled childishness as a key element in legitimizing children's participation in public culture. The industry played on long-standing gendered and racialized constructions of childhood as feminine and white-both central markers of innocence and childishness. In addition to Kidz Bop, High School Musical, and the Disney Channel's music programs, Bickford examines Taylor Swift in relation to girlhood and whiteness, Justin Bieber's childish immaturity, and Miley Cyrus/Hannah Montana and postfeminist discourses of work-life balance. In outlining how tween pop imagined and positioned childhood as both intimate and public as well as a cultural identity to be marketed to, Bickford demonstrates the importance of children's music to core questions of identity politics, consumer culture, and the public sphere.Trade Review“A pathbreaking contribution that will reach and be relevant to a wide audience, Tween Pop is the first book to treat the tween pop explosion of the 2000s as a cohesive phenomenon. I have no doubt that it will reach a wide audience while repositioning music as central to childhood studies and demanding for children's music a central place in the study of popular music as a whole.” -- Diane Pecknold, author of * The Selling Sound: The Rise of the Country Music Industry *“Tyler Bickford masterfully describes a ‘tween moment’ in American public culture, examining those young music consumers who teeter between childhood and adolescence, and the attention of the popular music industry in reconceptualizing music for them in this critical growth stage. This highly original and ambitious book is a substantial contribution to ethnomusicology, sociology, media studies, education, and child studies, and convincingly clarifies the struggle of the culture industries to convert childhood into a cultural identity all its own.” -- Patricia Shehan Campbell, University of Washington“Tween Pop offers valuable new directions in many areas across multiple disciplines. The scholarship here should remain beneficial for quite some time. . . . I urge readers to pick up this book now and make the most of it.” -- Christopher A. Medjesky * Journal of Popular Culture *“Tween Pop is well-researched, expertly written, and thorough, and it includes supporting images. It is an essential text for those wanting to understand the important tween audience and its continuing impact on popular music.” -- Kathy Merlock Jackson * Journal of American Culture *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction. The Tween Moment 1 1. Singing Along 41 2. Music Television 56 3. "Having It All" 87 4. The Whiteness of Tween Innocence 106 5. The Tween Prodigy at Home and Online 140 Conclusion. After the Tween Moment 167 Notes 187 References 197 Index 221

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Book SynopsisWinner, Outstanding Scholarly Contribution Award of the Section on Children and Youth, given by the American Sociological AssociationFinalist for the 2021 C. Wright Mills Award, given by the Society for the Study of Social ProblemsLatinx children navigating identity, citizenship, and belonging in a divided America An estimated sixty million people in the United States are of Latinx descent, with youth under the age of eighteen making up two-thirds of this swiftly growing demographic. In Growing Up Latinx, Jesica Siham Fernández explores the lives of Latinx youth as they grapple with their social and political identities from an early age, and pursue a sense of belonging in their schools and communities as they face an increasingly hostile political climate.Drawing on interviews with nine-to-twelve-year-olds, Fernández gives us rare insight into how Latinx youth understand their own citizenship and bravely forge opportTrade ReviewGrowing Up Latinx provides a rich ethnographic account of how racist nativism, immigration policy and enforcement, and dominant ideas about 'good citizenship' play out in the lives of Latinx youth from immigrant and mixed status families. Fernandez powerfully centers Latinx young people’s own critical interpretations of citizenship as a status, a right, and a set of practices. She recognizes these young people as a source of theoretical insight into the multiple and shifting meanings of citizenship, making innovative contributions to the fields of migration studies, Latinx studies, childhood studies, and citizenship studies. -- Jessica K. Taft, author of The Kids Are in Charge: Activism and Power in Peru's Movement of Working ChildrenJesica Siham Fernández holds our hands tightly as we cross the borders into Growing up Latinx. With ethnographic care, she tells the stories of many young people and their immigration struggles at the border, including that of 6 year old Jesica, sin papeles, eager to spit up details to satisfy an intimidating border guard. Fernández gifts us a volume saturated in joy, resistance and justice. She insists that 'belonging is an inalienable right' and that citizenship must be understood beyond borders. Few scholars can write, across scale, like this, sketching young lives with grace, animating intimate moments of joy and fear, and accompanying readers as we consider our obligation to build a world not yet in existence. -- Michelle Fine, author of Just Research in Contentious Times: Widening the Methodological ImaginationIn Growing Up Latinx, Jesica Siham Fernandez disputes notions of children as 'citizens in the making' who are incapable of critical political understandings and actions.Taking us into the world of 9-12 year olds from mixed immigrant status, low-income families, Fernandez shows us that children are social and political thinkers and actors. This rich ethnography weaves a collective story of pain and possibility as children react to racialized nativism by engaging in acts of citizenship to demand dignity—and the right to belong—for themselves and their families. This book is a welcomed addition to scholarly works on children’s sociopolitical development as it underscores our responsibility to let children find their political voices and enact their political agency. -- Nilda Flores-González, author of Citizens but Not Americans: Race and Belonging among Latino MillennialsFernández presents a conceptually thorough and substantively rich account of how Latinx youth embody and make meaning of citizenship…Along with Latinx youth narratives, Fernández grants us with a political vision and sociological future of what democracy will signify in the decades to come. * Ethnic and Racial Studies *Precisely one of the values of this book is the author’s explicit valuing of the resilience and the strength of this community and, more specifically, its youth…Growing up Latinx also emphasizes the complex cultural and social identities that the adolescents must navigate. -- Yamile M. Martí Haidar * Feminist Inquiry in Social Work *Fernández presents a conceptually thorough and substantively rich account of how Latinx youth embody and make meaning of citizenship…Along with Latinx youth narratives, Fernández grants us with a political vision and sociological future of what democracy will signify in the decades to come. -- Aaron Arredondo * Ethnic and Racial Studies *

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Book SynopsisWinner, Outstanding Scholarly Contribution Award of the Section on Children and Youth, given by the American Sociological AssociationFinalist for the 2021 C. Wright Mills Award, given by the Society for the Study of Social ProblemsLatinx children navigating identity, citizenship, and belonging in a divided America An estimated sixty million people in the United States are of Latinx descent, with youth under the age of eighteen making up two-thirds of this swiftly growing demographic. In Growing Up Latinx, Jesica Siham Fernández explores the lives of Latinx youth as they grapple with their social and political identities from an early age, and pursue a sense of belonging in their schools and communities as they face an increasingly hostile political climate.Drawing on interviews with nine-to-twelve-year-olds, Fernández gives us rare insight into how Latinx youth understand their own citizenship and bravely forge opportTrade ReviewGrowing Up Latinx provides a rich ethnographic account of how racist nativism, immigration policy and enforcement, and dominant ideas about 'good citizenship' play out in the lives of Latinx youth from immigrant and mixed status families. Fernandez powerfully centers Latinx young people’s own critical interpretations of citizenship as a status, a right, and a set of practices. She recognizes these young people as a source of theoretical insight into the multiple and shifting meanings of citizenship, making innovative contributions to the fields of migration studies, Latinx studies, childhood studies, and citizenship studies. -- Jessica K. Taft, author of The Kids Are in Charge: Activism and Power in Peru's Movement of Working ChildrenJesica Siham Fernández holds our hands tightly as we cross the borders into Growing up Latinx. With ethnographic care, she tells the stories of many young people and their immigration struggles at the border, including that of 6 year old Jesica, sin papeles, eager to spit up details to satisfy an intimidating border guard. Fernández gifts us a volume saturated in joy, resistance and justice. She insists that 'belonging is an inalienable right' and that citizenship must be understood beyond borders. Few scholars can write, across scale, like this, sketching young lives with grace, animating intimate moments of joy and fear, and accompanying readers as we consider our obligation to build a world not yet in existence. -- Michelle Fine, author of Just Research in Contentious Times: Widening the Methodological ImaginationIn Growing Up Latinx, Jesica Siham Fernandez disputes notions of children as 'citizens in the making' who are incapable of critical political understandings and actions.Taking us into the world of 9-12 year olds from mixed immigrant status, low-income families, Fernandez shows us that children are social and political thinkers and actors. This rich ethnography weaves a collective story of pain and possibility as children react to racialized nativism by engaging in acts of citizenship to demand dignity—and the right to belong—for themselves and their families. This book is a welcomed addition to scholarly works on children’s sociopolitical development as it underscores our responsibility to let children find their political voices and enact their political agency. -- Nilda Flores-González, author of Citizens but Not Americans: Race and Belonging among Latino MillennialsFernández presents a conceptually thorough and substantively rich account of how Latinx youth embody and make meaning of citizenship…Along with Latinx youth narratives, Fernández grants us with a political vision and sociological future of what democracy will signify in the decades to come. * Ethnic and Racial Studies *Precisely one of the values of this book is the author’s explicit valuing of the resilience and the strength of this community and, more specifically, its youth…Growing up Latinx also emphasizes the complex cultural and social identities that the adolescents must navigate. -- Yamile M. Martí Haidar * Feminist Inquiry in Social Work *Fernández presents a conceptually thorough and substantively rich account of how Latinx youth embody and make meaning of citizenship…Along with Latinx youth narratives, Fernández grants us with a political vision and sociological future of what democracy will signify in the decades to come. -- Aaron Arredondo * Ethnic and Racial Studies *

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Book SynopsisExamines the Protestant origins of motherhood and the child consumer Throughout history, the responsibility for children's moral well-being has fallen into the laps of mothers. In The Moral Project of Childhood, the noted childhood studies scholar Daniel Thomas Cook illustrates how mothers in the nineteenth-century United States meticulously managed their children's needs and wants, pleasures and pains, through the material world so as to produce the child as a moral project. Drawing on a century of religiously-oriented child care advice in women's periodicals, he examines how children ultimately came to be understood by mothersand later, by commercial actorsas consumers. From concerns about taste, to forms of discipline and punishment, to play and toys, Cook delves into the social politics of motherhood, historical anxieties about childhood, and early children's consumer culture. An engaging read, The Moral Project of Childhood provides a rich cultural histTrade ReviewThe Moral Project of Childhood is a thoughtful and ambitious book that takes on some of the received wisdom about the historical trajectories of childhood and children's consumption. Daniel Thomas Cook advances a new theory that achieves what previous scholars could not: a historically embedded account of how the modern-day child consumer is not a sharp break with 19th century understandings of childhood, but instead a continuation. -- Allison J. Pugh, author of The Tumbleweed Society: Working and Caring in an Age of InsecurityCook makes a timely and exciting intervention into questions of value, providing stimulating insights into the tempestuous moral project of childhood. Examining 19th-century Anglo-American 'mother's magazines', he argues persuasively against the treatment of consumption as an intervention into 'pre-capitalist childhood'. By adeptly charting the co-constitutive logic of capital and childhood, and the weighty accountability this entails for mothers and motherhood, he offers a lens through which to view the making and exclusive idealization of middle-class White childhoods which resonate to this day. The book asks not just who is a 'child', but when and how bodies are made into children, urging us to interrogate the way contests over childhood are profoundly implicated in affective, moral, and economic valuations. -- Rachel Rosen, editor of Feminism and the Politics of Childhood: Friends or Foes?This book treats changes in upper-class education in the 19th-century northeastern US [...] Cook argues that rather than continuing to instruct children according to stern religious values to ensure their moral education, this period emphasized refined taste—a sense of which goods were and were not good—as the new basis of morality and defense of the status quo. * Choice *

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Book SynopsisExplores how the institutional management of children's sexualities in boarding schools affected children's future social, political, and economic opportunities Tracing the US's investment in disciplining minoritarian sexualities since the late nineteenth century, Mary Zaborskis focuses on a ubiquitous but understudied figure: the queer child. Queer Childhoods examines the lived and literary experiences of children who attended reform schools, schools for the blind, African American industrial schools, and Native American boarding schools. In mapping the institutional terrain of queer childhoods in educational settings of the late nineteenth- and twentieth-century, the book offers an original archive of children's sexual and embodied experiences. Zaborskis argues that these boarding schoolsdesigned to segregate racialized, criminalized, and disabled children from mainstream cultureproduced new forms of childhood. These childhoods have secured American futures in which inTrade ReviewA fierce and brilliant book. Mary Zaborskis argues that the U.S. and Canadian states queered minoritarian populations in order to unfit them for full citizenship. Deep in the archives of industrial schools, Native American boarding schools, and schools for the blind, Zaborskis demonstrates that these institutions targeted the sexuality of Black, Native, poor, and disabled students, preparing them for futures that would never come to pass. By attending to the experiences of actual children caught up in this biopolitical project, Queer Childhoods challenges pieties about education, the Child, and a queer future untroubled by these violent legacies of exclusion. -- Heather K. Love, University of PennsylvaniaSmart and provocative. Mary Zaborskis grapples with a history emergent in queer theory. How did specific institutions queer children against their will, for almost two centuries? That is, how were children from minoritized backgrounds ‘sexually othered’—made ‘strange,’ thus queer—so that they could be forced into normalizing scenes that guaranteed their failure to assimilate to norms? Here, the act of ‘queering’ is not to be embraced. It’s a barbed dynamic that aims to manage lives and threaten certain futures. What a rending read—riveting and necessary. -- Kathryn Bond Stockton, author of The Queer Child, or Growing Sideways in the Twentieth Century

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Book SynopsisHow children are taught to control their feelings and how they resistthis emotional management through cultural production. Today, even young kids talk to each other across social media by referencing memes,songs, and movements, constructing a common vernacular that resists parental, educational, and media imperatives to name their feelings and thus control their bodies. Over the past two decades, children's television programming has provided a therapeutic site for the processing of emotions such as anger, but in doing so has enforced normative structures of feeling that, Jane Juffer argues, weaken the intensity and range of children's affective experiences. Don't Use Your Words! seeks to challenge those norms, highlighting the ways that kids express their feelings through cultural productions including drawings, fan art, memes, YouTube videos, dance moves, and conversations while gaming online. Focusing on kids between ages five and nine, Don't Use Your Words! situates these prodTrade Review"Juffer raises provocative questions concerning children’s emotions... Recommended. Graduate students, researchers, faculty." * Choice *"Juffer values children’s media, demanding that we pay attention to how influential their cultural production is. Including cultural analyses of Blue’s Clues to YouTube, electoral politics to immigration policy, and education to affect theory, Juffer deepens each field as much as she puts them in conversation with each other through careful, deliberate inspection. Her discussions of emotional intelligence, expression, and management are woven alongside her treatment of children’s drawings, art exhibitions, and writings in a way that expands the scope of contemporary media studies. Don’t Use Your Words! is a great accomplishment and a true gift to us all—children, parents, and scholars alike." -- Sarah Projansky, author of Spectacular Girls: Media Fascination and Celebrity Culture"[Juffer] develops a theory challenging the idea that children cannot be viewed as having emotional intelligence. [...] This book is an excellent read for parents, psychological researchers, and educators of all sorts." * Communication Booknotes Quarterly *

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Ann Traverss The Trans Generation is an astounding and essential qualitative study that collects heartfelt, honest anecdotes from a variety of transgender children and their parents." * Foreword Reviews *"Given that trans children are subjected to harassment, bullying, and systemic lack of support, theres no better time than now to have this book as a resource." * Bitch Magazine *"Walks readers through challenges that transgender children face in schools, in public spaces, with their parents, and navigating health care...A useful text." * Library Journal *"In this insightful evaluation of the lives of transgender kids, the author closely examines schools, spaces (especially bathrooms and locker rooms), parents, and healthcare. The book is...an important addition to the growing body of transgender literature." * Booklist *"Whether due to a general lack of understanding or consistent misinterpretations of definitions, gender and identity can be challenging topics for many individuals. Travers helps combat this confusion by exploring aspects of gender and identity research that are often perplexing for students. Travers presents an innovative exploration of the experiences of transgender children, offering concrete definitions of terminology and fresh approaches to discussing gender, sex, and identity. To some, these definitions and explanations might seem inconsequential, but they can be invaluable to those less informed about gender research. The text goes beyond simply discussing issues related to gender and children by listing resources for children, parents, lawmakers, and educators as well as providing policy recommendations for healthcare and education professionals … This illuminating text will be an appreciated addition to any library collection, especially those supporting sociology, psychology, gender studies, or criminology and criminal justice programs." * Choice *"Passionate, smart, sensitive, and on-target in its policy recommendations, The Trans Generation is indispensable reading for anybody who wants to understand the gender climate-change our culture is currently experiencing. If you care about a kid who does gender differentlyan estimated 1 in 137 of all people in the US between the ages of 13-17and want them to have the best future possible, then read this book, take it to heart, and start making that future a reality for them today." -- Susan Stryker, Author of Transgender History"By focusing on varying degrees of precariousness in childrens livesprimarily in school and in relation to pathologizing medical discourses and practicesAnn Travers makes a much-needed contribution to the scholarship on trans subjectivity generally, and trans youth in particular.a pleasure to read." -- Jane Ward, Author of Not Gay: Sex Between Straight White Men"Compassionate and pragmatic, this is the book about trans kids that everyparent, teacher, coach, caregiver, and policymaker needs to read!" -- Heath Fogg Davis, Author of Beyond Trans: Does Gender Matter?"The book is a far leap from a legacy of scholarship that treats transgender persons as the object of interest, and instead interrogates the social institutions, and agents, that react and respond to them—or that fail to." * Social Forces *

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Book SynopsisIn the decades after the Civil War, urbanization, industrialization, and immigration marked the start of the Gilded Age, a period of rapid economic growth but also social upheaval. Reformers responded to the social and economic chaos with a search for order, as famously described by historian Robert Wiebe. Most reformers agreed that one of the nation's top priorities should be its children and youth, who, they believed, suffered more from the disorder plaguing the rapidly growing nation than any other group. Children and Youth during the Gilded Age and Progressive Era explores both nineteenth century conditions that led Progressives to their search for order and some of the solutions applied to children and youth in the context of that search. Edited by renowned scholar of children's history James Marten, the collection of eleven essays offers case studies relevant to educational reform, child labor laws, underage marriage, and recreation for children, among others. Including Trade ReviewBy presenting this scholarship from the burgeoning subfield of childhood and youth studies in such an engaging manner, Marten has made an original and useful contribution to the literature on the Gilded Age and Progressive Era. * The Journal of American History *The two-part book ('Shaping the Future' and 'Managing Change') has some excellent articles, and accompanying documents include a memoir of a Native American boarding school student, high school newspaper articles, and juvenile court documents. * Choice *The essays that comprise this outstanding collection make an important contribution to scholarly understandings of the Progressive era. They feature an abundance of historical actors engaged in a variety of activities that together paint a picture of the period's complex, inconsistent, and contradictory conflicts over the changing notions of childhood and youth. -- Miriam Forman-Brunell,author of Babysitter: An American HistoryTable of ContentsPart I. Shaping the Future: Institutions and the Law 17 1 Playing Progressively? Race, Reform, and Playful Pedagogies 19 in the Origins of Philadelphia's Starr Garden Recreation Park, 1857-1904 Deborah Valentine 2 Model Schools and Field Days: Colorado Fuel and Iron's 42 Construction of Education and Recreation for Children, 1901-1918 Fawn-Amber Montoya 3 Of Families or Individuals? Southern Child Workers and the 59 Progressive Crusade for Child Labor Regulation, 1899-1920 Gwendoline Alphonso 4 "I Was So Glad to Be in School Here": Religious Organizations 81 and the School on Ellis Island in the Early 1900s Claire B. Gallagher 5 The Trajectory of Benevolence: Progressivism in the 102 Little Colonel Books Sarah E. Clere Part II. Managing Change: Children, Youth, 121 and Families 6 Willful Disobedience: Young People and School Authority 125 in the Nineteenth-Century United States James D. Schmidt 7 The Contested Meanings of Child Marriage in the 145 Turn-of-the-Century United States Nicholas L. Syrett 8 Sex, Abortion, and Prostitution in the Lives of Gilded Age 166 Chicago Girls Mary Linehan 9 Ohio Departures: George as Progressive Youth in Sherwood 187 Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio John James and Tom Ue 10 Fit Body, Fit Mind

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Book SynopsisDetails the possibilities and challenges of intergenerational activism and social movements Since 1976, the Peruvian movement of working children has fought to redefine age-based roles in society, including defending children's right to work. In The Kids Are in Charge, Jessica K. Taft gives us an inside look at this groundbreaking, intergenerational social movement, showing that kids canand should berespected as equal partners in economic, social, and political life. Through participant observation, Taft explores how the movement has redefined relationships between kids and adults; how they put these ideas into practice within their organizations; and how they advocate for them in larger society. Ultimately, she encourages us to question the widely accepted beliefs that children should not work or participate in politics. The Kids Are in Charge is a provocative invitation to re-imagine childhood, power, and politics.Trade ReviewThe Kids Are in Charge is a powerful, provocative, and necessary book. Centering the voices and strategies of the Peruvian movement of working children, Jessica Taft urges us to question assumptions about children—who they are, and who they can be—to imagine childhood otherwise. In engaging and accessible prose, Taft's analysis of children as critical thinkers and political agents should be required reading not only for scholars of Latin America, but teachers, parents, policy makers and everyone concerned with the complexity of childhood. -- María Elena García, author of Making Indigenous Citizens: Identities, Development, and Multicultural Activism in PeruWhile children are gaining global renown anew as activists for the environment and for peace, for gun control, and for human rights, Taft reveals the potent challenge children pose for movements against social inequality, arguing that until we address the hierarchy of age, all other inequalities will fail to crumble. Incisive, empathic, surprising, The Kids Are in Charge is a powerful account of children refusing to settle for a hierarchical, paternalistic status quo, a story of children modeling a new way of being together even as they push for political and institutional change. -- Allison J. Pugh, author of The Tumbleweed Society: Working and Caring in an Age of InsecurityThe Kids Are in Charge is an insightful scholarly but accessible work on one of the most amazing social and human rights movements of modern history. Jessica K. Taft must be commended for providing new and powerful perspectives to understand this unique phenomenon. She convincingly busts myths about children and builds the case of treating children as equal citizens of this world...Written in beautiful and easy-to-understand language, The Kids Are in Charge is a very well-researched book. It is a must-read if you are interested in Latin America or child rights. -- Washington Book ReviewFor those social movement scholars who have yet to grapple with age as a form of power relations, Jessica Taft’s book The Kids Are in Charge provides a terrific introduction. * Mobilization *

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Book SynopsisDetails the possibilities and challenges of intergenerational activism and social movements Since 1976, the Peruvian movement of working children has fought to redefine age-based roles in society, including defending children's right to work. In The Kids Are in Charge, Jessica K. Taft gives us an inside look at this groundbreaking, intergenerational social movement, showing that kids canand should berespected as equal partners in economic, social, and political life. Through participant observation, Taft explores how the movement has redefined relationships between kids and adults; how they put these ideas into practice within their organizations; and how they advocate for them in larger society. Ultimately, she encourages us to question the widely accepted beliefs that children should not work or participate in politics. The Kids Are in Charge is a provocative invitation to re-imagine childhood, power, and politics.Trade ReviewThe Kids Are in Charge is a powerful, provocative, and necessary book. Centering the voices and strategies of the Peruvian movement of working children, Jessica Taft urges us to question assumptions about children—who they are, and who they can be—to imagine childhood otherwise. In engaging and accessible prose, Taft's analysis of children as critical thinkers and political agents should be required reading not only for scholars of Latin America, but teachers, parents, policy makers and everyone concerned with the complexity of childhood. -- María Elena García, author of Making Indigenous Citizens: Identities, Development, and Multicultural Activism in PeruWhile children are gaining global renown anew as activists for the environment and for peace, for gun control, and for human rights, Taft reveals the potent challenge children pose for movements against social inequality, arguing that until we address the hierarchy of age, all other inequalities will fail to crumble. Incisive, empathic, surprising, The Kids Are in Charge is a powerful account of children refusing to settle for a hierarchical, paternalistic status quo, a story of children modeling a new way of being together even as they push for political and institutional change. -- Allison J. Pugh, author of The Tumbleweed Society: Working and Caring in an Age of InsecurityThe Kids Are in Charge is an insightful scholarly but accessible work on one of the most amazing social and human rights movements of modern history. Jessica K. Taft must be commended for providing new and powerful perspectives to understand this unique phenomenon. She convincingly busts myths about children and builds the case of treating children as equal citizens of this world...Written in beautiful and easy-to-understand language, The Kids Are in Charge is a very well-researched book. It is a must-read if you are interested in Latin America or child rights. -- Washington Book ReviewFor those social movement scholars who have yet to grapple with age as a form of power relations, Jessica Taft’s book The Kids Are in Charge provides a terrific introduction. * Mobilization *

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