The Agency of Children: From Family to Global Human Rights

ISBN: 9780521604703 出版年：2012 页码：316 Oswell Cambridge University Press

In the growing field of childhood studies, the idea of children’s agency is central. In the backdrop of the transformation of children and childhood across the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and in the context of dramatic changes in recent years to children’s everyday lives as a consequence of new networked, mobile technologies and new forms of globalisation, this book argues for new understandings of children’s agency. This book reviews existing theories of children’s agency, but it also provides the theoretical tools for thinking children’s agency as spatially, temporally and materially complex. With this in mind, the book surveys the main problem-spaces of childhood studies, including chapters on family, schooling, crime, health, consumer culture, work and human rights. This comprehensive text leads the field and is intended for students and academic researchers from across the humanities and social sciences interested in the study of children and childhood.