In the growing field of childhood studies, the idea of childrenâs 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 childrenâs everyday lives as a consequence of new networked, mobile technologies and new forms of globalisation, this book argues for new understandings of childrenâs agency. This book reviews existing theories of childrenâs agency, but it also provides the theoretical tools for thinking childrenâs 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.
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